They helped me out of a bad depression once

They can be very draining on you until the course of treatment is done. But what ever works is good (within reason, putting the mother in-law through a woodchipper might solve some problmes, but it is not advisable.). We are all different.

I hear good and bad things about ECT, the worst thing is that it isn't like that movie, "One Flew Over the CooCoo's Nest!" I think that would be kind of cool.

There is memory loss, one person told me here they lost memory for a very long time. I get the feeling that it is a last resort. It helped my sister-in-law, but she kept going back because she was hoping she would die while medicated. So who knows what really happened there, she also has slight mental retardation. And my info is via the mother-in-law so who really knows what happened.

I would be more than willing to try it. If it has hope in helping me I want to try it. I was going to hook my tits up to a battery cable to save money but....I think I have become a chicken to that method.

I didn't experience any memory loss only a bad headache after each one.

I am going to bump this topic seeing as my docs are sendin me to an inpatient ant University of Utah for ECT as soon as the arrangements can be made...

I'm not afraid of fire, but am afraid of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btu-ekn2zN8

This guy is a dude, follow the series through his treatment.

can't his mono tone put me to sleep

They helped me once when I was really depressed. But I'm still afraid of them.

I have considered having ECT, but after I read numerous stories and information on the treatment, I decided that, right now, it isn't right for me. Someday, I might change my mind, but for now, I'll keep trying medication.

Anyway, I read the good and the bad. Some people greatly benefited from the treatments and only had short term memory loss, while a few others had severe memory loss and other symptoms. I guess you can't really know what will happen until you try them, which is scary. I mean theres always that chance of things not going well, right? The question is, for you, is it worth the risk? For a lot of people, it is.

I'm still scared of them. I saw a girl that lost most of her teeth after a shock treatment.At this time in my life I don't feel I need them or want them.

oh wow! i had never heard of anyone losing their teeth. that is scary! that's one thing i'm super paranoid about...losing my teeth. i have heard of ppl having them and continuing to have seizures afterwards.

i talked to my friends about it once, and they were surprised to find out ECT was still done today.

I had ECT, about 12 treatments in all. It brought me out of my depression. My friends say that was when I really started to recover. I have short term memory loss but I can live with that. I don't know if it is just a coincidence, but after ECT is when meds started working for me. Anyway, hope this helpful. Good luck and take care.

My doctor told me that old people can't take so many meds, so instead of so many meds they are given Shock Treatments.