Posted by OzLand on June 17, 2007, at 23:18:43
In reply to therapy is wrong..., posted by sleepygirl on June 14, 2007, at 22:44:01
Hum; with my new therapist I already feel better than I did in the past two years. I feel so much better with him even though he talks about how I am going to feel really horrible at times with the therapy and when he talks about developing intimacy (and not sexual) within the therapy and our relationship, I want to run. Thing is, I know this will be much better for me to do than what I did in March.
Believe me, if you think therapy is bad, try ECT. I know therapy will help me if I trust and allow myself to become engaged. Medication and ECT are things "done to you." Therapy is a collaborative relationship. I'll take that any day. And, yes I take med's too.
But never again to ECT. My brain is 1/4 baked now, and I am told things will likely get better, but no guarantee. Glad I stopped the ECT before they wanted me to. They wanted me to do 10 to 12 treatments, and I quit after 7 because I could tell things were not going well. In fact, the ECT doc wanted to put me back in the hospital for numbers 8 and 9 and 10 etc. I did 6 and 7 as an outpatient, and this is how I could really tell things were bad. Had I had more ECT, well my brain would likely be 3/4 baked, and I probably would not have been able to go back to work like I have. So, sometimes the grass really does look greener on the other side of the fence.
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