Posted by LostBoyinNC1 on July 29, 2002, at 17:45:59
In reply to Re: Has ECT become the treatment for the wealthy?, posted by Compucat on July 29, 2002, at 13:50:41
> I've recently become interested in ECT as a treatment, simply because looking back, I probably should have had it in February to kick me out of severe depression (I would say I am about 40% out of this current bout).
Same here. If I had it to do all over again I would have taken the advice of my psychiatrists and had it several years ago.
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> There is also a university hospital here (again that infamous 1 hour plus drive) that has a mood disorders clinic that takes in (either inpatient or outpatient) a limited number of patients. I am not sure if ECT treatments are performed there though - it's possible that patients may be referred to the mental health hospital instead).You should be able to get competent ECT as an outpatient these days, in any location. With the improvements and safety of modern ECT, there is no reason anyone needs to go inpatient for it these days except for maybe the first treatment or two.
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> In Canada, with our social health system, I wouldn't say that ECT has become a treatment for the wealthy. However, it seems more and more that in the future there could possibly be a true two-tier health system here, and if that is the case, I assume many different treatments, ECT or otherwise, could become something that requires the patient to pay outside of their government health care plan.
Yeah...I have a feeling in the future ECT is going to be the depression treatment for the rich. The rest of us will be relegated to drugs and cheesy forms of talk therapy.
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