{"id":498514,"date":"2026-06-18T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:23:08","slug":"willamette-week-saving-mrs-brown-electroconvulsive-therapy-might-be-her-last-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498514\/","title":{"rendered":"Willamette Week: ‘Saving Mrs. Brown’: Electroconvulsive therapy might be her last hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Electroconvulsive therapy can be a highly effective psychiatric treatment for severe mental health conditions, but it also carries with it a stigma, and in some places, barriers to access.<\/p>\n

In this week’s issue, Willamette Week dives into the story of one woman in Portland and how this misunderstood treatment might be her last hope.<\/p>\n

But she can\u2019t get it here.<\/p>\n

For more on this week’s cover story, KATU was joined by Willamette Week reporter Andrew Schwartz.<\/p>\n

Click above to watch the segment and here<\/a> to read more from Willamette Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Electroconvulsive therapy can be a highly effective psychiatric treatment for severe mental health conditions,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-498514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}