Posted by Meltingpot on January 14, 2010, at 14:54:24
Hi,
I doubt I will get any answers to this but I'm going to ask the question anyway. I've been diagnosed as having dysthymia with moderate to severe symptoms. I also have anxiety. I have tried most medications and most of them have helped a little, Seroxat helped the most for two years (I enjoyed life for a while) and then stopped working. Off medication my anxiety gets very bad to the extent that all I want to do is keep moving all of the time.
I don't know what to do next. I don't want to live like this for another 10 years. I keep thinking if I'm still like this in five years and still asking the same old questions and repeating the same old story then I'll probably seriously think about ending it all. Well I say that now anyway.
All psychiatrists have told me that ECT does not tend to work for my type of anxious depression and I believe them. But I cannot find any evidence that proves that ECT does not work for my type of depression. There don't seem to be any studies, I've trawled the internet looking (as I'm so obsessed) and I can't find any personal experiences of people with dysthymia and anxiety who have had ECT so I'm not sure what the psychiatrists base there opinion on. I know Max Fink says it but then he doesn't cite any studies either.
Has anyone on this board who has been diagnosed wth dysthymia and anxiety ever had ECT?
Denise
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