Future Human

The Unlikely Revival of Electrocution Therapy

For patients like me, an unexpected way to help treatment-resistant conditions

Siddhi Camila Lama
OneZero
Published in
7 min readJul 2, 2018

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Illustration: Sam Taylor

WWhen I first told my friends I was going home for a few months to get electrocuted, they thought I was insane. I think some of them wondered if I was literally insane, given that electrocution-related therapies…

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Siddhi Camila Lama
OneZero

Bioengineer working on human-machine interface systems by day; scientific writer and translator by night.