I&#39d like to do pretty much what I did the first time, which is to choose a light-hearted theme.我想能和第一次演讲一样，选择一个轻松的主题。Last time, I talked about death and dying.上一次我谈论了关于生与死。This time, I&#39m going to talk about mental illness.这次我要谈谈精神疾病。But it has to be technological, so I&#39ll talk about electro

It didn&#39t work very well on the schizophrenics,在治疗精神分裂症上，电击疗法效果不是很好，but it was pretty clear in the &#3930s and by the middle of the &#3940s但是在30年代和40年代中期，很明显that electroconvulsive therapy was very, very effective in the treatment of depression.电击治疗对于治疗忧郁症非常非常有效。And of course, in those days, there

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage.60年代我结婚了，To use the word bad would be perhaps the understatement of the year.用“糟糕透了”这个词都不足以形容It was dreadful.简直是糟糕极了。There are, I&#39m sure, enough divorced people in this room我相信在座的就有离婚的人to know about the hostility, the anger, who knows what.知道那种敌意、愤怒，谁知道呢。Being s

So they got very interested in producing convulsions, measured types of convulsions.所以他们对诱发抽搐很感兴趣，控制抽搐的程度。And they thought, &quotWell, we&#39ve got electricity, we&#39ll plug somebody into the wall.他们认为，“我们有电源，我们可以把身体通电试试看。That always makes hair stand up and people shake a lot.&quot这样通电后体验者人头发竖起，身体颤

And I&#39ve always felt guilty about that.我一直感到心虚，I&#39ve always felt that somehow I was an impostor一直觉得自己有点像冒充的because my readers don&#39t know what I have just told you.因为读者不知道我今天说的。It&#39s known by some people in New Haven, obviously, but it is not generally known.很明显，纽黑文市有人知道，但一般来说，这不为人知。So one

And they tried everything they had.住院后，医生尽其所能。They tried the usual psychotherapy.他们试了常规的心理疗法，They tried every medication available in those days.也尝试了那个时候所有可能的药物。And they did have Tofranil and other things -- Mellaril, who knows what.他们用了盐酸丙咪嗪和其他药-,硫醚嗪，谁知道。Nothing happened except that I got jaundiced

Well, he said, &quotCan&#39t we try a course of electroshock therapy?&quot“难道我们不能尝试一下点击疗法吗？”And you know why they agreed? They agreed to humor him.你知道他们为什么同意了？他们不想和他争执。They just thought, &quotWell, we&#39ll give a course of 10.他们想，就试10次电疗吧。And so we&#39ll lose a little time. Big deal. It doesn&#39t

And things got better and better,状况变得越来越好，and within three or four months,三四个月后，I was discharged from that hospital, and I joined a group of surgeons我出院并加入外科医师团体where I could work with other people in the community, not in New Haven, but fairly close by.我可以和其他人共事，并不在康州纽黑文市，但很近.I stayed there for thr

Ted英语演讲：来自人生的经验与忏悔：舍温纽兰:讲解电击疗法