Posted by baseball55 on October 18, 2013, at 19:39:53
In reply to Re: Were you a ECT horror story?, posted by johnLA on October 18, 2013, at 15:52:10
I understand what you are saying, John. Ect is very helpful for some people. Kitty Dukakis wrote a book a few years back called Shocked in which she related her own positive experience with ECT. She was a neighbor of mine, so I know she still does maintenance treatments. Apparently she lost some memory, but feels it was well worth it.
Nobody understands the mechanism of action of ECT. It's success rate is higher than anti-depressants.
On a good note, I have remained mostly stable and able to fight off severe depressive episodes for the past two years -- partly due to parnate and lamictal and partly due to intensive work on DBT with a trained DBT therapist. I can not speak highly enough about DBT, though that is a matter for a different thread.
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