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Originally Posted by Edgar's Mom
I came on here because I feel so alone and so badly, posted about feeling suicidal and though there were a good half a dozen people on here, not one of them even read this or gave a ****.
Is it me? Do they just see my name and say f#ck her? I really don't feel that well liked here sometimes.
I make it a point to be there for others and it really sucks that when I'm alone and reaching out, I'm still alone.
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Not everyone has personal experience with ECT so they probably don't feel comfortable answering. I've been asleep for the last 8 hours.
As far apart as your first two ECT treatments were, it may take longer for an benefit to start showing. I never had the experience of treatments making we suicidal, but because it can take multiple treatments for them to even begin to make a difference, it would not be unusual for a patient to continue having problems or even get worse until things started improving. That is one reason why my pdoc always prefers his patients to be inpatient through at least the first two or three treatments for continued safety and monitoring. Please be sure you communicate what is going on with the pdoc who is doing the treatments.