Posted by SLS on October 18, 2013, at 10:14:24
In reply to Re: Were you a ECT horror story? » SLS, posted by doxogenic boy on October 18, 2013, at 9:27:10
> > 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.I believe you. I am truly sorry that you were so terribly affected by ECT. I can empathize with you. Although not a product of ECT, my memory is poor. It is a manifestation of having such a severe and refractory bipolar depression. I, too, try to resign myself to being stuck with the horrible cognitive and memory impairments that may be irreversible.
> My hope is that it one day comes a drug that can give me my good memory back.
Are you currently depressed? If you are, you might experience an unexpected improvement in your memory when your depression resolves. Otherwise, you can begin to look into Alzheimer drugs. Memantine and acetylcholine cholinesterase inhibitors are currently available. I once tried Aricept. No magic. But then, again, my impairments were not generated by ECT.
The older one gets, the more depression manifests as dementia.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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