ECT, the actual experience was easy. It involved getting up early, taking some liquid paracetamol, and then heading to the ECT room. They put a drip in you to intravenously give you the aesthetic and some gel on either one or both sides of your head, depending on whether you are getting bilateral or unilateral treatment. Within seconds you are asleep then you wake up. For me I woke up feeling fine, not groggy at all. Occasionally I had a headache but it was mild.

The big thing I noticed, especially with bilateral, was the memory loss. It was all related to the time around the treatment. I could recall historical stuff fine but did have trouble with passwords ect while during the treatment. I had 12 unilateral and 6 bilateral. It helped a bit but not enough to consider doing it again unless I get severely depressed.

Within a month after treatment my brain was back to normal fuctioning. I even completed university studies while having treatment. Only one unit but it is amazing I could do that. I did well too. ECT is a relatively simple treatment, nothing to fear except memory loss at the time. A lot of my time during the coarse of treatment is blacked out. Some people I have met have had their lives turned around by ECT, others, like me, find it to do almost nothing at all.