Bi Polar Depression – Shock Treatments Anyone?
Question by why john: bi polar depression – shock treatments anyone?
overdosing was fairly often. the hospitals next.my one dr. starting giving me EST.(shock treatments).that helped my deeply seated depression the best.it sounds strange but they really didn’t bother me like you hear about.have any of you had to have these? what was your exparance with them
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Answer by HumphreyCat
My friend has been receiving shock therapy for major depression for a few months and she says she feels like a whole new person. It’s so great to see her happier and healthier. She says the treatments aren’t that bad at all. Good for you for getting treatment!
Answer by gardensallday
one person who was in a group with me said that the treatments didn’t help enough, and stopped helping after they were done. So she got all the memory problems for nothing. I’m pretty sure she was bipolar.
The other person, who IS a friend of mine, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, but his doc is now calling it schizoaffective. He was in a catatonic state for a long time, and he thinks ECT saved his life. Especially because he was in a state run hospital, and the staff were leaving him starve to death. The only time he could eat was when his dad came to see him, and fed him.
ECT used to be a very brutal treatment, and was used as a disciplinary measure as late as the 1970’s (we had a speaker talk to a group of folks at mental health awareness day for our county – he wasn’t given anasthesia because he mouthed off as a teenager in a mental hospital!!) In Turkey, it is used as a torture for mental patients. Sooooo there is a history with it for mental patients, just as black people fear/are angered by the burning cross and lynching noose symbols.
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