Posted by bleauberry on June 1, 2008, at 19:45:45
In reply to Re: ECT report, posted by blueboy on June 1, 2008, at 18:51:45
Probably 30 people say hi to me by name but I don't know them. I previously worked with them, had lunch with them, or something. I do not remember them. But they sure know me.
Driving in my small home town like visiting some strange place I've never been. Don't recognize the corner store, the streets, the houses, business, schools, nothing. Every curve in the road is a mystery.
Don't remember what led up to ECT. How did it get there.
Don't remember quitting my 10 year job, applying for a lesser job, interviewing three times for that job, and getting that job. How the heck did all that happen? Don't remember.
Three months is totally permanently gone from memory. Another 6 months on both sides of ECT are quite foggy.
ECT did work after 12 treatments...for 2 whole days...for $20,000...and then pooped out. Both the docs and insurance said enough was enough. Me too.
The memory loss thing is deceiving. You don't know it is happening when it is happening. You only realize the extent of it months later as you look back.
For those who do get benefits from it, I am pleased. For those thinking of trying it, it is another form of hope and I wish the best.
Statistics are rather skewed because there is lousy followup. The only people followed are the ones that continue to get regularly. Ones like me, well, who knows what they wrote in the records. Probably said it was effective, with no mention of how short it was effective.
Long story, but statistics on ECT are quite inaccurate and skewed, due primarily in the specific ways they gather the statistics and interpret them.
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