Posted by baseball55 on October 18, 2013, at 19:30:57
In reply to Re: Were you a ECT horror story? » johnLA, posted by SLS on October 18, 2013, at 10:00:27
> I had bilateral ECT. By the end of treatments, I felt very weird, although my depression remained unimproved. I experienced cognitive and memory impairments that lasted for about a month, and thereafter dissipated. I do not consider myself to be a horror story.
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> - ScottI had the same experience as you Scott. Not a horror story, but not a success story either. No improvement in depression after 3 weeks of bilateral ECT. For about six -eight weeks afterward, I found I didn't remember neighbors names, street names. I had virtually no memory of the ECT period itself, though I did keep a journal in the hospital, so I knew things because I had written them down contemporaneously. For example, my husband came in and my daughter called in on conference call for a family meeting, but I do not recall this at all. I just know that it happened because I wrote that it happened in my journal.
ECT was a bust for me, but not a horror story.
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