Posted by stargazer on December 13, 2006, at 10:43:57
In reply to Re: ECT experience, posted by linkadge on December 12, 2006, at 20:03:27
I agree with Linkage with being able to evaluate statistics and the like.
ECT outcomes vary wildly...some are helped, some are not, but it all is really subjective. I think anything as drastic as ECT can get you out of a depression since it is so physcially traumatic. But I also think the right drugs given in the right amounts can do this too without as much damage. Finding a doctor that can do this is the problem. There are not enough "experts" in psychopharm, and there should be since there are too many meds for most pdocs to get a handle on.
If you are a high functioning individual, I wonder how many of those people can return to the work they were doing before ECT. It's just to hard to quantify outcomes.
The best outcome I saw with ECT was on a comatose individual who did recover and return to her previous life, but she had MR and was not in a working situation.
Most people I saw having ECT were not working, they were too sick. Personally I think some of the work they did made them sick, but that's another theory of mine.
Stargazer
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