Posted by bleauberry on April 19, 2009, at 12:25:32
In reply to After ECT #16, feel *qualitatively* different, posted by uncouth on April 18, 2009, at 21:04:37
Well, I've said it here before, many times, so you can probably expect and predict what I will say.
Unless someone is so ill that they cannot live or function anywhere else except in a longterm hospital setting, I do not believe anyone has any business electrifying the brain with voltage.
My dad is retired but was a doctor all his life. He said the aftermath of ECT looked to him exactly like the brain trauma he saw in Vietnam when soldiers were near grenade blasts.
I don't know what to tell ya, except I am not a fan of ECT and there is no way to tell what these wierd things you are feeling are. Whatever they are, it doesn't exactly sound healthy to me. I could be wrong.
As an ECT survivor of 12 bilaterals, I can tell you from personal experience that the memory loss does not improve. In my case it has been steady and permanent for, well, I can't even remember how many years it has been, two, three?
I can't remember.
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