Posted by lady scruffe on May 16, 2008, at 20:06:37
In reply to OT - anyone know a decent forum about ECT?, posted by blueboy on May 12, 2008, at 15:06:26
Please do not do ECT. PLEASE! I have been totally disabled from treatment resistent depression/GAD since 2002 and have also been on all medications/ also augmented and finally after researching ECT and getting multiple opinions - did a 12 course series of ECT fall of 2005. The side effects are so bad - such mental confusion during the wks of treatments and for months/yrs after. Such headaches - even with morphine shots after every treatment. My memory is still so bad - and so many memories of pre ECT yrs are gone for good. Your behavior during and for months after is goofy to say the least - it caused such anguish and worry in my family that my son who was a senior at Yale almost had to drop out - he was so flipped out by my bizarre behaviour. A lifelong reader of anything and everything - I still cannot process/understand/retain most of what I read. It's gone. I can't spell - I was an expert at it. ECT made me worse. It did not lift my depression and it has made me even more self conscious around people - even family - because I don't know if I am repeating myself, when past ocasions at which apparently I was present come up in conversation - I just nod and pretend - I often have no memory of the occasion. And I had this done 3 yrs ago!
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