I was not responding well to medications or TMS so eventually acquiesced to ECT. The initial intensive treatment did indeed wreak havoc on the memory, but that has improved with time. I started sometime in the early-middle of 2015 and have continued to have maintenance treatments every few weeks ever since then. I have found that now that the procedures are only coming every four weeks my memory doesn't suffer so much. For example, I was reading a book last week, but had ECT on Friday, the 17th. Where in the past the plot details would be lost, this week I could recall everything and even finished the book today.

I would like to say that I, too, spend the remainder of the day in bed after ECT. However, I would like to point out that it's not so much a result of the treatment itself as it is of the anesthesia that we are so wiped out.

Anyhow, to answer simply: No, you're not the only one to have a positive experience with ECT. I get it every four weeks and would not do if it were not beneficial.

Feel free to PM me with questions, anyone. Or conversation and reflection from fellow ECT veterans.