Posted by baseball55 on October 15, 2013, at 19:08:47
In reply to Re: ECT-Advice Needed » Christ_empowered, posted by SLS on October 15, 2013, at 18:01:44
I know people who swear by ECT. I had both unipolar and bipolar ECT and it did nothing at all for my depression. ECT is a very intense process. You are administered a paralytic, with an aid pumping oxygen into your lungs since you can't breathe. Then you are put under general anesthesia. It's quite an ordeal. You awake confused and not knowing where you are. When I had bilateral ECT, this confusion and memory loss lasted for days.
ECT seems to me a last resort. If you haven't tried drugs, therapy, self-care, etc, then try those first.
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