Re: Severe melancholia should be treated with ECT

Posted by stjames on August 25, 2003, at 21:26:06

In reply to Re: Severe melancholia should be treated with ECT, posted by Psychquackery on August 25, 2003, at 12:45:32

> Submitting refractorily depressed individuals to endless drug/hormone augmentation strategies is cruel and usually yields shoddy results. Going straight to ECT is more of a sure thing and is backed up by tons of credible studies.
>
> Igor
However, in some of us "endless" is just 2 trials. 20+ years and the meds still work for me.

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