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Shock Therapy?

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I am interested to know if anyone has recieved shock therapy, what it was like, and what the long term effects were...if it helped and what it helped specifically.
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deleted_user
Hello

My daughter had ect treatments when she was in a very depressed state in a mental ward in St. Louis none of the other treatments (meds) worked it was the only thing that brought her out of her catatonic state it took about 10 treatments but it was a miracle.
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Same for me. When nothing else worked and all else failed. A lot of people have said that they'd experienced memory loss, including myself, but when your mind is not incontrol????? Just a thought. Look it up, lots of go info on line. LOL
starfish
starfish
There have been some discussions on it in the depression community. ECT used to be pretty barbaric when they first started using it, as there were not as many ethics laws constricting the use of treatments as there are today. It used to be given without anesthetic, and with a much higher voltage, sometimes would break bones!! I don't want to scare you, because none of that happens today, but that is one reason why there is a lot of fear about it. ECT is a last resort effort when other treatments have been ineffective. The results are generally good, according to textbooks, but I have read both favorable and unfavorable results from people's actual experiences. Memory loss is supposed to be temporary, but I have heard some complaints otherwise. I have also read complaints about burns on the head (a contact point) You might try googling it and see what you find.
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