Posted by Zyprexa on October 17, 2013, at 1:31:53
In reply to Re: yes..., posted by sigismund on October 16, 2013, at 18:06:25
They ruined my memory for at least the last 15 years. People said I was not the same when I got out of the hospital. Told me not to thought block. How do I do that when I can't even form a memory. Remember waking up after an ECT and I thought I had just been born, or was on an alien planet. I would look around the room and not know what anything was. I had a lot of very demented thoughts during the hospital stay. I think ECTs add to mental illness. The whole thing was like one very weird dream. Obviously I don't remember much of my stay in hospital. I still can't remember much for the first 5 years before ECT. It was like my whole life was restarted after ECT, except that now I'm dumb. I was never asked about whether I wanted ECT or even what they were going to do. Infact I didn't even know what ECT was till I got out of hospital and got on PB! I think they used ECTs to torture me, because I would not take the meds. Well I've learned my lesson now and don't miss a dose!
I don't recomend ECT. Its taken me a lot of time to slowly piece my life back together. Mostly with the help of freinds and me getting memory back, very slowly. I think I'm half retarted now from the ECTs.
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