I’m looking into it as well. It has such a terrible stigma. I’m praying this helps me!

I hope it has worked out well for you. 🙏 I am looking into it as well.

I'm currently getting it done and it's absolutely WONDERFUL! I've had 2 treatments so far and I noticed after the first treatment I was much happier, I'm also a recovering alcoholic and my desire for alcohol has wanned tremendously! IDK about all this negativity, but it works for me. I am 49

How did you make out with he ECT treatments? Like you I’ve tried everything and my doctor recommended ECT but I’m afraid. I hope you’re feeling better.

@@coupdefoudre5352 Someone close to me is going through ECT now and she’s already showing a ton of improvement. And her memory loss is extremely minor - she’s only forgotten really redundant things. Her psychiatrist said her depression has been reduced from severe to mild. The days she gets her treatments, she’s pretty exhausted and sometimes she’ll have a headache or muscle tightness but a good day of sleep usually puts her back on track.

how many sessions

Please Refer Sri Lankan Buddhism.(Therawada Buddhism) You will never get dipression. Believe me,😘😚

@@SinhalaSongs_SinhalaSongs thanks! I'm cured!!111

If you have had ECT contact the dk law group in CA involved in a current national device suit. See ectjustice.com and life after ECT. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZyaq8t-qsiqeXU.html

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Certainly she was transformed into a complete IDIOT.

@@Marsia.Mariner no, she was actually able to go back to her career as a nurse practioner

@@andrewbatts7678 i am happy for her! God bless!

My husband getting 3 sessions after a long period of 4 month worse depression that not covers with medicine he feels happy now also energetic before he slowed and always complaining to his luck

@@andrewbatts7678 Is she still on maintenance treatment by ECT and does she use maintenance medication?

Please Refer Sri Lankan Buddhism.(Therawada Buddhism) You will never get dipression. Believe me,😘😚

How are you doing today?

So I have severe depression and some kind of dementia symptoms so what should I do?

@@ranapratapsingh9570 You ignore this comment that has zero proof of actually having gone through ECT and you consult with a couple doctors. You’d be surprised how many people lie in KZfaq comments just because they have a personal bias against something.

how are you writing this if you lost your ability to write

This was written pretty well tbh

@@sok6462 That didn't occur to me until reading your comment XD. I'm rolling

I know right? last time I checked the brain temporarily shutting down is brain death. Not sure it should do that. :D

Coming round from ECT is very different to coming round from anaesthesia though with ECT the patient is coming round from both! After ECT people take a lot longer to come round. Also they often do not know WHAT they are let alone WHO they are. It is a frightening experience. This is why they NEVER show this in promotional ECT videos. In this video they would have waited a long time before resuming filming and even then the patient did not say much!

@@cherylprax1 makes sense to me, and as long as it works it doesn't really matter to me. In my specific case it was either this or suicide, and some extra time until complete lucidity wasn't even a consideration. And the great thing about it is that because I was so out of it for about a day, that I was lucid before I had even realized that any time had gone by.

That is the most ignorant comment. Psychiatrists openly admit that the goal of the procedure IS brain damage. The insane amount of volts that ECT puts through the brain is way more than enough to cause a “grand mal seizure,” (the worst type of seizure there is) and serious brain damage. Sorry to tell you the truth but if you wanted to commit suicide, you certainly are doing it. You should seek real help instead.

@@cherylprax1 Why do those of you who’ve never had ECT speak for those who have? I’ve had it and I’ve had my wisdom teeth out. The feeling I had post-ECT is exactly the same as post wisdom teeth removal. How about you cut the bullshit and do something productive with your life?

What happened in 2012?how are you now

You were transformed into a vegetable, or into a parrot. Congratulations.

Tests to have done following ECT: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/baiRiqp03NTcfJs.html Contact the DK law group in CA to see about joining current national product liability suit around ECT devices if you have had ECT. Go on public social and share the harm of this practice.

Any progress updates on the ECT?

How has it been since?

AT a time I was considering it. But I don't want to forget to play the piano which I have been playing since the age of 3. I am 46 now. My mother's side of the family suffers from depression and I inherited that gene. Mental pain is far worse than physical. Oh God it hurts.

AJ did you have The treatment and how is your experience with it

@@54andcounting17 how are you now did you have severe depression

Stop fucking lying

Yeah I don't know about that. Sending 8x a defibrillator through your brain with no actual proven studies. Legitimately enough electricity to power an appliance for the duration of the shock. And not to be rude but I honestly feel as if you starting with as a nurse adds no comfort to your statements nor should it for anyone else. I have met some really stupid nurses. Antivaxxer and worse. For the love of god unless you are an electrical engineer with an understanding of the human brain 50 years ahead of the rest of the world, you have no leg to stand on to dare recommend something so dangerous

@@PSD925 The first people to notice changes are loved ones. My family said they noticed that I seemed happier around the third session, but I didn’t really feel any different until the fifth. Most people it takes between six and twelve. I’m on the seventh now and with each new session more positive results manifest! I plan on doing 12 total. I can’t recommend it enough, and believe me my depression was so bad I didn’t think ANYTHING would work. I tried every medicine and combination of medicine possible with only a minor benefit. Another thing nice about the ECT is I feel “organically” happy. Not the mask and blunted emotions I’d feel on the meds. I feel happy like how I remember years ago. You should 100% look into it!!! Insurance covers it and it’s truly life changing.

@@PSD925 I hope you can find great treatment!!!

@@PSD925 Hey!!! I’m so sorry!!! I don’t check my notifications all the time so my apologies! My depression was really bad. Like I was constantly depressed and was suicidal. I had NO interest in doing anything that I enjoyed and actively avoided seeing friends and family. This is no longer the case, and I can genuinely say I haven’t felt this normal in like a decade.

@@PSD925 Good decision and good luck with your future endeavors!!!

@@PSD925 That’s an extremely complicated question, but a combination of many things over life.

Así es, además otros efectos secundarios son en ocasiones hemorragias nasales y microhemorragias en el cerebro.La sensación de mejoría es temporal.

It's ok brother, pray Jesus Christ

IT certainly should be.

Some people want to forget

Not being able to find the word you need in a conversation -yep. My dr says my continued memory loss 18 months later is from my major depression and the meds dose I take every day- has it helped ? No I don’t feel it did - otherwise I would be off my meds by now

They gotta ban that shit

Aidid Rashed Efat more electricity is used now so it is much more damaging to the brain than it used to be. The mechanism of action is brain damage.

@@beta447 me when I lie

Yesssssssirrrrrrr

Yes

Fuck

Blido You speak the truth. This is brain damage repackaged as therapy.

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@@beta447 Tests to have done following ECT: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/baiRiqp03NTcfJs.html Contact the DK law group in CA to see about joining current national product liability suit around ECT devices if you have had ECT. Go on public social and share the harm of this practice.

The alternatives for someone with say very chronic depression don't come in abundance.

It forces an electrical connection in neural networks which may be deficient. That's my theory anyway

it is an artificially induced seizure, It is 400 times stronger than an epileptic seizure. Basically it hyper routes electrical signals in the brain, intensifying them, and this occurs brain wide. The seizure is damaging. It is,without a questionable doubt, TBI Our brain produces enough energy to light a 20 Watt bulb. That equates to about 24 volts.

From what I've heard, the jury is still out on how exactly is this treatment effective. Still, it's important to remember that there's more to depression than "chemical imbalance". Perhaps the effect of ECT is entirely neurological, or maybe some of the neurons affected by it transmit signals to generate serotonin

Because they put something on your right foot

No no, the body responds the same even the heart

Banging should be least of your concerns when you get to this point lmao

@@adamwilliams134lmaooo

Thank u

Will it help me

@@sanubala3382 i did ECT ...and nothing changes..some lucky..some not :)

@@Adinda.1407 how are you now?

Eric Borenstein what about niacin for depression?

Definitely cosmetic. The brain damage is just as bad. ECT really needs to be put out of commission. so does DBS

@@scottcupp8129 lol this shows an abundantly clear ignorance of ECT. A little research from actual medical papers and not articles you’ve read on the internet would do you wonders.

That's a great question and it gets at the heart of what ECT really is. First, epilepsy is different in different people. The regular onset and propagation of the seizure is not predictable in epilepsy patients to the degree necessary to assure reliable therapeutic benefit, but mechanistically the seizures are the same, and they do indeed have the same benefit. However, anti-epileptic meds would need to be discontinued before ECT in order to achieve a therapeutic seizure. That can of course leave the patient vulnerable to unwanted seizures. So, just like the rest of us, it depends on the severity of the problem being treated and the experience of the psychiatrist or neurologist performing the procedure.

Beena Plumber I have grand mal seizures. My neurologist wasn’t consulted on my treatment while getting my inpatient ECT’s. My seizures have gotten worse after my sessions. I don’t even remember going in the room for them. I also don’t even remembering signing any papers to give them permission for the ECT’s. I’m going to find out if I can see my impatience hospital care recorders to read what was going on.

@@angieflewelling2295 If you were at a competent hospital with a competent medical staff, the simple thing to say is that you were most likely treated competently, though it's hard for me to imagine not consulting your neurologist. There is so much research out there concerning ECT, and I am confident that a reliable answer to your question is out there. You should normally have full access to all of your medical records (in the US anyway), but there is an exception to that law concerning psych records. If the psychiatrist believes it will do you harm to see your records, they can withhold them from you. However, in that case you can appoint someone to inspect your records for you. Complete memory loss like yours is common for bilateral ECT, but I don't know anything about its effect on future seizures in a patient with epilepsy, other than the effects of reducing your anti-seizure meds before the ECT. Nor do I know if unilateral (right-side only) ECT causes the seizure to propagate to the left hemisphere in an epileptic brain, effectively making it bilateral ECT, with all the associated memory loss. But it's very difficult for me to imagine hospital staff performing ECT on an epileptic patient without considering all of these factors and weighing them against the severity of your psychiatric condition. That's the ultimate calculation for all of us - severity of our psychiatric problems vs. risk of the treatment being considered. That goes for every treatment, even taking a single Prozac. You have my emotional support, for whatever that's worth to you, in finding out what they did with you in the hospital, but I hope you'll be careful in dealing with the things you don't know. Missing memories and unanswered questions don't mean something bad happened. ECT is after all a rather drastic treatment, and it can have serious effects on your memory that linger for quite a while. That's why it should be used as a last resort. During my ECT treatments last week, I signed the consent for ECT while the nurse was prepping me, maybe 5 minutes before I was unconscious. If you had bilateral ECT, I would be shocked if you'd remember something that close to a treatment. For each treatment, there were 4-5 medical professionals surrounding me as I went under. I also had a hospital psychiatrist visiting me daily who was not involved with my ECT (no conflict of interest). Doing anything improper would be difficult to pull off in front of so many professionals, three of whom were MDs. I hope you can follow this up without feeling anxiety about the outcome. Good luck to you!

NO! I have bad memory loss due to ECT

@@jackh4147 Nobody asked you

Despite the horror stories i'v read about ECT, i don't care im finally given the chance to do it next week. Locked inside a asylum after a failed suicide attempt, i obviously have hit rock bottom. I've been trying medication for years, nothing changes. I mean it's either this treatment or im gonna end up dead soon enough. When you have nothing left to loose it's a win-win situation.

@@theblackbull55 Did you have any improvement with ECT?

@@theblackbull55 true I feel same 👍

@@theblackbull55 Did you go through with ECT and did it help? I feel like you. We get desperate and will try anything.

Don’t do it

MeInTheCornfield dr suggested me to go under ECT bcz of after being for 3 years on medications i am not healing should i try this would it heal me or not from pakistan

Emm shut up my mum had ECT when she was 16 and has saved her life and it has recently just worn off and she’s 38 boom

Saved my life

@@JohnRambo1947-July-6th Hi, I am so happy to hear it saved you. I am thinking about ECT but its given such a bad rep

John Rambo hey man doing TMS right but if it doesn’t work considering ECT, any memory problems?

You’ve never recovered from anesthesia and it shows 🤣 this is exactly what it’s like to wake up from anesthesia. Maybe, idk, read a book before making a ridiculously stupid and ignorant comment.

It’s true, she’s telling the truth

@@KALSKingdom Their source is probably a uncited article written by someone who works for Home Depot by day and watches 1960s medical dramas by night. These folks never have sources, they just talk out of their asses.

🤣

Bro so true that show is freaky 😂

UCLA Health fuck you for posting

normal guy No. Actually, it’s the exact opposite: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4000084/pdf/nihms567885.pdf

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Would you require oncologists to have chemotherapy?

@@dingo137 Or asking doctors who do surgeries to get the same surgery before operating.

This is the dumbest comment I think I’ve ever read. Do you ask the dentist pulling your wisdom teeth to pull one of their own teeth before they start doing it to others? Or did you write this without a brain?

Sam Holden you’re a moron. There is scientific evidence that show chemical imbalances in the brain can cause depression

you are correct

Fuck the Church of Scientology

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Despite their objections one must continue to shine the light of truth on these loathsome criminals and their Shills for their crimes against humanity . Only in its glare do their lies wither and die. It is the potent weapon they can not defend against.