Electroconvulsive therapy abbreviated as ECT is used for helping the people showing following disorders:

1. If the person is suffering from severe depression and the anti-depressant and medication fail to cure them.
2. It is prescribed for the person who has problem taking anti-depressant.
3. It can be used to treat schizophrenia disorder which cannot be treated as medications.
4. Person suffering from insomnia, change in weight, feeling worthlessness and hopelessness, person getting ideas of suicide and death are subjected to ECT’s.
5. Severe mania can also be treated using ECT in case the medications are not working. Some of the symptoms of severe mania are sudden change in behavior, loss of weight and insomnia.

In ECT the person is given electrical shock in the brain to cause a condition called as seizure in which a person’s brain undergoes short period of inactivity. Due to seizure number of chemicals is released in the brain which is called as neurotransmitters and is responsible for delivering message from one cell of the brain to the other enabling the brain to function properly and in a better way. If the chemical messengers in the brain cells functions properly then the person will feel improvement in the mood.