Posted by Squiggles on December 1, 2005, at 10:47:55
I just finished reading a scholarly
article on depression and ECT from a
Yale person. The article is still not
copyrighted so I am not allowed to
quote from it. In any event, it is
"for" ECT. I would have many comments
to make on some of the assertions but not
here and now.Nor will I say much about it, in case people
here who have had ECT, are offened by my
comments.I will say though, that there was an occasion
I wrote about some time ago (this summer) when
the pharmacy gave me corrupted drugs and
I sank into mixed states. It was a very tough
experience and close to suicide. I pulled myself
up through my own bootstraps and had to
experiment with li dosages after calling my dr.
to ask for the "good" batch from another pharmacy.The point of this is, that under the conditions
of that paper, which I assume is very mainstream, I would have received ECT as emergency
treatment had I gone to the hospital
for help. Instead, I juggled the dose myself
and recovered over a month. But the first days
of the fall into the abyss were "critical",
requiring immediate treatment. I'm sure that
is what they would have given me if presented
at Emergency.Had I gone to the hospital and actually
asked, I would have preferred brain surgery --
which may not be commonly done for depression
or manic-depression, if the only other option
were ECT.
Squiggles
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