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Originally Posted by mccarrolmike
Quite intriguing, scaredandconfused,
As a former patient that currently have my major resistant depression /ADHD in remission, I am curious to further my interest in corealation to our mental health.
May I ask what were the symptoms that made your depression fall into a clinical level of severity?
Having succeeded with ECT, how immediately after were you able to feel the therapy work?
Have you been in remission since?
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When I received ECT for the first time, I was inpatient at the hospital for depression. We tried several meds that didn't help so ECT was the last option. I was basically not functioning, laying in bed almost all day, neglecting hygiene, and I stopped eating. They forced me to drink those Ensure drinks to get some calories in my system. I am usually an avid nail biter but I was so depressed that my nails actually started to grow...something that had not happened in ages. Once the ECT began working, the nail biting began again.
The unfortunate side effect of ECT is memory loss, so I cannot answer your last two questions accurately. There are some memories I'll never get back and that time of my life is a blur. I've been in remission since December of 2016. It would have been longer but I foolishly stopped 4 medications at once a few months previous to December, then in December the depression came back and I had a brief stay at the hospital to do a med change. I have been doing quite well since, aside from a re-emergence of emetophobia, but that's a whole other issue.
