Posted by bleauberry on December 15, 2008, at 17:41:06
In reply to Does ECT help anxiety?, posted by MattSanz on December 14, 2008, at 16:36:59
ECT helped my depression only in very minor ways leading up to the 12th treatment (3 per week for a month). In my diary after each treatment I commented how I actually felt worse than before and kind of paranoid or schizophrenic. Anxiety was definitely worse. I must have improved at least a little because here at pbabble I made a comment that ECT somehow made my prozac and zypexa work better. They weren't working at all anymore after 8 years, so I guess even a little was better than nothing.
But I don't remember any of it. Thank you ECT for that. I can only go by the diary and infrequent visits to pbabble. I would have come here more often except I forgot it existed.
Anyway, after the 12th treatment I had amazing anti-anxiety. I was calm on a stage in front of many people, talking in a loud microphone as if I was a world class speaker.
That lasted 2 days and then I was in an ambulance to the hospital from ECT failure. Crashed harder than ever before ECT.
So who knows. Everyone is different. I wish you were not doing ECT. But oh well, we all have to do what we think is best at the time. As I did.
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