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My wife is seriouly depressed and has been for the last three and a half years. She is sensitive to the side-effects of medication and also they have not been effective.
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I think I'd be kind of warry about a psychiatrist who calls ECT "benign". I mean it's a nice word, and it might well be "benign", but even water can kill you if you drink enough of it. You might read "undercurrents" by Martha Manning. She is a psychologist who has had ECT and the book is a diary of that period (one of two) in her life. You are right to put the word benign in quotations. Electroshock is anything but benign. Proof is coming to light that contrary to the PR statements such as "a small amount of electricity is used," the machines are actually 3 or 4 times more powerful than those used typically in Cuckoo's Nest scenarios. The same current applied to the chest would cause cardiac arrest. Now am I mistaken in my believe that the brain is the most delicate organ in the body?? They would have us believe that such powerful "doses" of electrical energy somehow rearrage brain chemistry for the better. It is all bunk. Electroshock is a physician-induced closed-head injury. It's as simple as that. Brain damage is well known to produce euphoria. Temporary euphoria from a blow to the head is not a cure for depression, and if your unfortunate wife does consent to ECT, in all likelihood her depression will return. Here in the UK ECT is practiced fairy often, but not until after many different medications have been tried and failed. I was unfortuneate that it did not work for me, but I have seen miraculous cures,sometimes after only one of a course. It can be very helpful and the results can last for years. As with any operation there is a risk (it is done under general anesthetic), but you are only under for a couple if minutes (if even that long). After treatment the patient usually has a headache and tempory loss of short term memory. Only occassionally is there long term memory loss. It only held for two weeks for me and I had two sessions (the first one had twelve treatments twice a week and the second nine sessions also twice a week.). I know dozens of people who have been greatly helped by the treatment and have never heard of anyone having any real adverse side effects apart from lomg term memory loss, which happened to me, and no one else I know has suffered this. If it had worked for me this memory loss would be a very small price to pay for getting better. My advice is that if nothing else seem to work then go for it. I live in N.Ireland and am being referred to a hospital in London where the treatment may involve Psychosurgery which has also advanced tremendously over the last twenty years. I am not afraid of this as anythingis better than feeling the way I do at present. The way I see it my only alternative is suicide because I have been ill for over eight years and cannot keep going much longer.
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