It saved my life 24 years ago, I've never been so deeply depressed that I needed it since.

My thinking is that with careful screening of patients to identify those who will most likely benefit, ECT is a good and safe treatment. Instead ECT has become the treatment of last resort, used on the most refractive patients when everything else has failed. I guess the people it works for just get on with the rest of their lives and don't feel compelled to make known that it worked. It is the same with meds and other treatments too. Just look at the number of horror stories counted against the number of success stories. Also compensation lawyers don't get rich on success stories do they? So there is an inbuilt bias towards hearing all the bad stuff.

Please don't feel abnormal, there are enough bad things in life, you don't deserve to be stigmatised by something good.