Hello. I just joined yesterday and am looking for testimonials on ECT. I have a terrible time with meds and feel that this might help when nothing else has. Appreciate any feedback...thx
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Hello notnow, and welcome. I came close to having ECT at one point, but tried one last ditch at medication and that turned the tide, so the ECT never happened. However, I've met a few people for whom it helped a lot. Unfortunately I lost track of those people and don't know how they made out down the road. If you're more of a tech person than me, I suggest you search around the forum for other posts about ECT because I'm sure the topic has come up before.uni
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I had ECT. 5 or 6 treatments while hospitalized. I don't recall how many exactly, because it can mess with your memory. I was completely non-responsive to the medication and what was offered as therapy. When the psychiatrist put the idea on the table, I was terrified because of the way movies used to portray it. It's not like that. You will convulse, you will be sore and tired after. But you won't experience the ECT as they put you under a general anesthetic. You're out for the whole thing.
Each session produced some improvement, or so I'm told. I sort of recall. The last one though made me kind of zombie like. There wasn't an improvement and I became emotionally flat and not very responsive. So my wife called it off. The thing is, it got me to a place where medication and therapy started to help.
I got stabilized and released. I won't say I was fine because I wasn't, and I'm not, but I was not obsessing over death and I was able to handle things and even resume working and advancing in my career. But life happens. I'm not in a great place right now mentally and emotionally, but I'm trying.
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