Working on getting published would probably be a great mental distraction from everything else going on. When I went through my last series of ECT, I read voraciously, like 3 or 4 books a week. My pdoc was both amazed and amused. He kept quizzing me on my books. But it helped to have my brain focused on those great stories for some reason. It was a worthy distraction and seemed to maybe help with the memory loss issue too, but that's just my theory.