I'm desperate for ECT to work for me and after the initial 9 bilateral treatments I'm actually feeling worse and more unstable than I have in a long time. I've signed up for another 6 but I've had some pretty significant memory loss. If I didn't feel like I have almost no quality of life I would probably not voluntarily give up more.

I came on here one night to re-read some of my threads and there was a whole thread where I felt suicidal and my husband left work to come and be with me and I had completely forgotten it. It was the strangest feeling reading an entire thread with my own words and the responses from people and having no memory of it. The cool part of that was that I was struck anew with how awesome the people on this list are :-)

Anyway, if you are stable and functioning I wouldn't recommend it. If you are desperate and nothing else works then you have nothing much to lose. That's where I am right now. Not much to lose by trying it. Even if I suffer more memory loss. If it gives me some relief from this unrelenting hell of a depression, it can wipe as much memory as it wants.