Posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 20:44:02
In reply to Re: Does ECT help with grief?, posted by sandyann on July 5, 2007, at 20:51:42
Well, ECT might help you forget, but I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.
(My mother developed agitated depression through grief and regret and I didn't think ECT helped her ...of course the doctor did....although Effexor seemed to, and morphine for cancer even more.
IMO no one had a clue.)I was speaking to a friend recently whose husband had died, and she was feeling a lot of grief.
I said something like
'The grief you feel comes from your desire to hold onto your husband.
We live in a world where people are disposable, but we don't want to live like that.
Your grief for your husband means that he is alive inside you.'
Later she said these words had been helpful, and so I repeat them here.It is, I know, very painful, and your need to forget is quite understandable.
But if I wanted to forget like that, there is no way I would hand myself over to ECT and the industry that handles it.
I'd try a monastery (or a soul doctor), or things I shouldn't mention, before that. But that's just me.I hope this not been unhelpful.
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