Posted by bleauberry on November 7, 2010, at 10:33:21
In reply to Who's ever tried physical treatments? ECT,TMS,VNS, posted by ggggg123 on November 4, 2010, at 11:12:52
I did ECT. At the very end of the 12th round I suddenly experienced something close to remission but only for about a day. Then two days later was in an ambulance screaming suicide. So, no, ECT did not work. Statistics on its success rate are far overblown and biased.
The best antidepressant/anti-anxiety strategies I have experienced have been from substances that supposedly have nothing to do with depression. I think that is a downfall of psychiatry...they limit drug choices to things that directly impact neurotransmitters, with total blind disregard for the rest of the brain and body. The depression in many cases is not originating in the brain, but somewhere else in the body. With some creative detective work, many of those causes can be found. I like that approach so much better than ECT or meds.
ECT came with a high price in memory. Random periods of my life are gone completely as if they never happened. Someone asked me the other day, "you remember when we had to carry you in the hospital with pneumonia back in 2005?" Uh...no I don't. And a zillion other things...gone forever. The part of the brain that deals with name recall got fried bigtime. I have such a hard time with people's names now, I mean really hard. People I've worked with for 4 years, I have to struggle to remember their name.
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