Depression And Suicide Case Study Sherwin Nuland

Sherwin Nuland share his personal experience of having depression 30 years ago, he was depressed because of his divorce. Additionally, depression affect his career and he found patient referrals are decreased from his colleagues, as a result of that, he underwent in severe depression. As per advice of his physician he admitted in mental hospital for long term care. Psychiatrist try all type of medications available at that time but didn’t get any results. After failure of medications group of senior psychiatrist decided pre-frontal lobotomy surgical procedure. But, one resident doctor opposed this decision and convince senior doctors for electroshock therapy. Afterwards, 10 session of electroshock therapy is given, and Nuland notice some improvement