Posted by doxogenic boy on October 18, 2013, at 14:50:09
In reply to Re: Were you a ECT horror story?, posted by alexandra_k on October 18, 2013, at 14:25:54
> thinking about the memory loss aspect of ect perhaps being the mechanism of action rather than a side-effect.
Yes, I think this the case. Depressed people often think about the same things over and over again. When ECT deletes the repeating thoughts, the depression is gone. The problem is that it deletes much more than just the worries. I have got both retrograde and anterograde amnesia because of the ECT.
- doxogenic
Earlier TRD/anxiety
300 mg tianeptine, 6 X 50 mg successfully since Oct 2009
20 mcg liothyronine
40 mg escitalopram
100 mg trimipramine
50 mg agomelatine
600 mg quetiapine
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