Hi everyone. I’m new to this forum. Find reading the posts very helpful. I’d love to hear from people who have received ECT for major depressive disorder. I have been receiving ECT for some time. I was just in hospital for 2months and received 12 ECT treatments for depression. I have refused the maintenance ECTs because of the damage they have done to my memory! Long term and short term. I keep getting told my memory will return within 6 months but my loss of memory has remained permanent! My family has to keep reminding me of important events that have happened. I told my ex-husband that I’ve been thinking of preparing a Will for some time and asked him if he could help me get one started. He looked shocked! He then informed me that we had prepared wills in 2010 together. I had no recollection of this. We even took a drive to the cemetery of my choice so I could look around and he said he recalled clear as a bell where I said I wanted to be buried! He said my sister was buried in that cemetery and we had visited her site while we were there! I have no recollection of any of this. He’s going to take me back out there in April on a sunny day and let me have a look around. Thank goodness for my ex- husband, daughter and son who keep reminding me of events. My psychiatrist doesn’t understand the severity of the memory loss and keeps telling me I need maintenance ECT or will end up back in hospital. Have any of you experienced anything like this?