I Have Had Ect

i have had ect. many times in fact. they have used 2 different kinds of machines over the years. the latest one is a lot easier on me. it doesn't hurt so much afterward like it used to. i can honestly say it has helped me. but the...

I was staying in Residential School as my parents was abroad.I was suffering with OCD since childhood (This was the disease I came to know two years back only).I dont know what happening to me? Even I couldnot know to express it my...

Hi all. Briefly, was hospitalised in 1970 after several scary experiments with lsd and cannabis. Received several ect treatments and released 1971. Unable to work for several years. Had follow up treatments with stellazine and disipal...

As a child, I was beaten and molested, stuttered, etc. As I see on most tv movies, this isn't the only thing I've been through. I use to pray to God to let me live until I was 18, as I thought I would be dead.

To make a very long story...

My life was certainly changed for the worse by ECT. First off, I want to recommend strongly that everyone read the book "Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment" -- http://www.amazon.com/Doctors...

I'm so happy to have found this site. I have been battling major depression, anxiety, PTSD, & borderline personality disorder since I was 15. I am 31 yrs. old now. Life to me was not worth living anymore as of November of last year. I...

I am 42 now and after battling with conflicting diagnoses regarding my mental health. I have suffered since my teens but managed to cope with the use of illicit drugs. Things got bad when I sobered up at age 18. I sought mental health...

I went into the Hospital with Major Depression in May, 2010.  I have trouble absorbing medications into my system and as a result antidepressants do not work well for me. 

I am on my 10th ECT treatment this week.  is it...

In Feburary of 2012 after my third suicide attempt since the age of 10, I landed myself in what I called the "looney-bin." I was inpatient for two weeks while the doctors figured out what to do with me. Diagnosed with severe depression...

Just thought how ironic the name shrink is. It's what they do to your brain. I've read a lot of shit about this and also about the so called profession. Shameful how it is the Pdoc's don't try to fix what's at the root of depression...

Mine is a complicated story, it started when i took a pill given to me off label by a nurse practitioner on Nov 7th, 2008, my life was destroyed!! I went thru hell, and was never the same again, after the physical effects wore off and...

I've read through this forum on many occasions without posting.

It's very difficult for me. I don't want to take hope from anyone considering this treatment or, having had ECT.

All I can tell you is my experience, as the son of...

Have had approximately 60 ECTs over the past 12 years. 2 suicide attempts, many times tempted. Countless psychiatric hospital admissions, public and private. Tried multiple meds and now on Lithium, Lamictal, Pristiq and Seroquel. Good...

Hi, I'm Lola. I'm a student and I've received 50 treatments since I started December 2011. I'm receiving maintenance ECT at once/month now. I had to take 2 years off from college but I'm finally back to majoring in psychology to someday...

I had ECT in the fall of 2009 at the Towson campus of Sheppard-Pratt hospital. At the time I was in a deep depression and my doctors hoped the therapy would break me out of it. I was an inpatient at the time the doctors (my own...

I am 17 and have had 6 ECT treatments so far, and they are working very well! I have not been so happy in so long, and it feels great to have real happiness again thanks to ECT, the only thing that sucks is some slight memory loss but...

I had two course of ECT. The first course was ten treatments of unilateral therapy, the second was 12 treatments of bilateral therapy 12 months later.

The treatments were every other day for the duration. I would go to the hospital...

I underwent ECT this summer.  I cannot share much of the details though as my memory has pretty much been wiped clean.  I really am missing several months (at least) of my life.  I do believe that the ECT helped...

I am 35 and have spent yrs taking meds.  None of them seem to work so my dr recomedend ect i was scared but so desprite for any kind of help.  i went into hospital and proceeded threw the preliminary the iv the history and...