Posted by doxogenic boy on October 18, 2013, at 9:27:10
In reply to Were you a ECT horror story?, posted by SLS on October 15, 2013, at 20:17:26
> Were you a ECT horror story?
Yes. My memory was destroyed when I got ECT in 2004. Before that I had a photographic memory, and I could tell others about things they had said, that they had forgotten. After ECT, other people tell _me_ about things I have said, that I have forgotten.
The antidepressant effect of the ECT treatments was small og short-lived. The despair caused by the loss of my good memory made my suicidal thoughts and depression even more treatment resistant, and I was depressed for five years after the ECT in October 2004. Only lots of medication could take away the desperation that I felt because my memory was destroyed.
I still get reminded often about my bad post-ECT-memory, but I have resigned myself with the situation. My hope is that it one day comes a drug that can give me my good memory back.
- doxogenic
Earlier TRD/anxiety
300 mg tianeptine, 6 X 50 mg successfully since Oct 2009
20 mcg liothyronine
40 mg escitalopram
100 mg trimipramine
50 mg agomelatine
600 mg quetiapine
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