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Re: ect reaction

Posted by reese1 on September 3, 2002, at 10:07:19

In reply to Re: dissociative reaction » Chloe, posted by Ritch on September 3, 2002, at 9:05:56

hello chloe,

i came hours away from having ect. i was inpatient waiting for the treatment and got to scared and was luckily able to get out.

what i know is this. the problem with the understanding from the public point of view on ect is awful. if you get beyond the barbaric thoughts most have you have the one thought that is rarely mentioned.

ect can work. ect sometimes work. ect takes time to work. etc etc etc

i don't know who the author is but they wrote a book about there expierence and said it took them six months to feel the full results of the ect. not only is there the healing period for the mental aspect there are other things as well. plus changin your med's etc. i don't know if you are bi-polar, depressed, a combination, but it's all very hard.

but i think people go into ect thinking this is the last resort and it will work if i can get through the fear of hell. but i think that sometimes it's much like one's early responses when they begin there ssri spin down the hole. start with zoloft, move to wellbutrin, then effexor, and nardil, parnate bla bla bla

but ect takes time and i think that is the one thing that can lead to horrible sadness after the treatments. i was under the impression that if i had gone through 6-12 treatments than the results would be seen immediately. it wasn't till later that i learned this usually isn't the case.

i think it takes a lot of guts to do what you did. i didn't have those guts. and i'm suffering more for it possibly.

i hope it goes okay. i was just wondering that if you were bi-polar, i think i saw that you were taken off some of the mood stabalizers. also it's hard being alone because all you have around is the echo of everything you don't want to hear in your thoughts and the people and places around you. if anything give yourself a prescription to not fucking care. if anybody deserves a break, a true break from concern, doubt, fear, etc it's you. though this is hard or impossible to do when one is in the darkness of clouds i hope you are able to at least give yourself some comfort and watch movies, rent rent rent movies if you can. i'm never able to do that. no matter what state i'm in. i can't sit still. or if i sit still i can't look outward enought to get out of myself.

please take care

doug


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