Posted by blueberry1 on January 4, 2007, at 14:48:42
In reply to re: ECT is this a surprise?, posted by skeptiK on January 4, 2007, at 12:14:17
ECT is bad. Very very bad.
My pdoc admitted that his success ratio with ECT is 50/50. Not very good. He said it helps some people but rarely brings sustained remission, and that followup treatments have a less than 50/50 chance of working.
The amnesia I had was total 100% for 3 months of my life and none of those memories have come back yet and likely never will. My dad is a retired doctor. He says the amnesia I have experienced is what he usually saw in head trauma cases where people were knocked out for days or weeks in car crashes. He said the pattern is the same...you totally forget the incident, but you also forget the time leading up to it and the time following it, usually encompassing weeks or months.
Ongoing amnesia in small mundane ways occur everyday as I go about my life. Where I put my keys? I forgot to make that phone call? Where did that $20 in my pocket go to? Stuff like that, that never happened before.
I walk around in kind of dizzy fog all the time.
I have never ever in my life considered suing anyone. I constantly have to hold myself back from calling a lawyer. I'm confident I could win something. But the turmoil, time, and stress of it all would weigh me down.
ECT sucks bigtime. I'm glad someone out there who knows what they are talking about is admitting it. Up till now it has just been us mentally ill irrelevent ones.
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