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Old Jul 03, 2013, 04:45 PM
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I was hospitalized for a really bad depression several times in one year, and it was so dark I no longer got out of bed, bathed or ate for weeks on end. No med helped and the ECT did bring me around...but at great cost. Too great a cost.
I've heard others talk about lingering effects from ECT. My cousin who is a pdoc talks about ECT like its just a wonderful cure-all and she tries to push it on some of us in the family with bipolar. Could you maybe share what you mean by "too great a cost?"