Posted by djinnicht on September 8, 2004, at 15:44:13
In reply to Re: Can ECT Make Depression worse? » denise528, posted by iris2 on September 8, 2004, at 11:50:52
someone needs to tell the original poster about antidepressant *poop-out*. and why no mention of the vastly less noxious (to the brain) rTMS/TMS?
have you been given a trial on parnate? i have found that usually patients have not! yet, doctors are willing to fry their brains with electricity instead because they are 'afraid' of the MAOI to this day.
i think ECT is possibly the worse mistake anyone could ever make in their lives. google it, what you find are 'ECT survivor' pages, rather than 'ECT fanclub' pages. most of the pro-ECT lit is written by one max fink, who owns the company that manufactures the machinery. geez.
as the surge of electricity hits your brain with enough force to blow thru the blood brain barrier and heat shock proteins and excitotoxins drown brain tissues, hey, want to see the video of a donkey or sheep i think it is getting ECTs that got the procedure approved?
N/V yet?
i've had them. i lost 30 years of memory, my one daughter's entire childhood, and have *antecedent* memory loss and FRONTAL LOBE SYNDROME.
its just _so_ groovy.
when my brilliant, then young, Pdoc saw the horror of it all, he never allowed it again.
he has patients from 7 states as testament to his clinical genius.
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and no, it didn't even work.
dJ
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