Posted by IsoM on March 17, 2002, at 14:32:43
In reply to Re: Anyone had success with ECT?ISO M Shelli R, posted by Denise528 on March 17, 2002, at 10:31:22
Your doctor thinks that ECT is only for "somone who was profoundly depressed and then went on to say that you would have to be suffering from delusions, that some people imagine that they are already dead and rotting and that it would only be cases such as this which would warrant ECT."
Not true. This is his professional opinion, mind you & I'm not a professional, but I've SEEN others cases where ECT was used for others. Dr. James G. Harris, both a research professor & a practicing psychiatrist, working out of the university hospital of UBC (University of British Columbia [Canada]) will use ECT in severely depressed people to get them out of their deep, suicidal depression, before finding treatment that they can be continued on for long-term benefit.
Like I said, I'm not a professional, but Dr. Harris is & has used these examples in his teaching classes - he told me this.
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