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So then my options that I'm faced with are: should I resume my old life, or completely walk away from that life going into either a) the grave or b) the asylum?
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I vote for "None of the above". Are you certain no other option exists? Could you, perhaps with assistance, seek a transformed life outside the asylum, a life where you didn't have to pretend or engage in denial?
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Originally Posted by Squeemish
How long should I wait to see if the ECT is going to help?
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Having set out on this course of treatment, I'd probably follow through the entire course and then wait as long as I would to see if an antidepressant medication was working -- subject to medical procedures. If after a reasonable time I judged the ECT ineffective, I would not consider it again.
[Caveat: the emphases here are on "I" and "probably".]
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