Posted by OzLand on July 10, 2007, at 18:00:04
In reply to Re: Did I die and go to hell?, posted by FredPotter on July 10, 2007, at 16:44:04
Dear FredPotter
ECT may not be what it was in the past, but my experience this March tells me that it is still something to be careful about doing. I did not fare so well in that I started to have significant confusion, disorientation, inability to focus and concentrate, and severe short term memory (could not remember anything for more than one day max). I also had and still have retrograde amnesia and basically holes in my memory. I still have some short term memory problems but can remember things now for around one to two weeks before it is gone. I can watch a TV show from a month ago and think I never saws it before. So, I think ECT still remains individual, and no one escapes memory problems. Some people do not mind that, and other mind it very much. Some past memories, I don't care that I don't remember, but others like from my educational experiences, you are darn right I care. I even researched ECT extensively before I did it and only did two times per week RUL rather than 3 times per week. I have yet to see anyone totally spared of problems. Some people will say it helped them a lot, and that is good. If you ask them more questions, though, what I have found is that they have deficits of one sort or another and have decided those deficits are preferable to psychosis or depression or whatever. It is easy to say I would be okay with this or that. I said it, and then I found out I better stop after number 7 or I might never be able to do my job. So, I went back to meds. I was still depressed, but I found a great therapist too, means more than meds or ECT to me.
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