It's Alive!!!!!

This is clint's mom letting all of you know that he is doing okay. Was put in hospital last nite for med changes, but seems to be doing okay. He wants to ask a question of who has had any experience with ect and how was the outcome. would appreciate any answers to this question, Thank you Clint's mom

Please say hello from me.

I am so happy that he is getting help . Everytime I have gone Inpatient it has been a huge help .

Tell him I said Hiya and wishing him the best

Also thanks "MOM" for letting us know .. We all tend to get really worried if we dont hear from someone in a few days.

Will do and if you know of anyone that has been thru ect pleae let me know as he really wants to know about it.

Your welcome, i will try to get on here everyday and let ya'll know how he is doing. Things are kinda up in the air right now between work and my work on the bi polar page on face book but i will def make an effort to get on here at least at nite. I will tell him you said hi and thank you

Please tell your son BipolaRNurse said "Hi and Get Better Soon!" I enjoy his posts and hope he does well so he can get back here.

Oh yes Clinte's Mom, thank you for letting us know. I am so glad he is getting some help. We will all be thinking of him and sending him, you and his family good thoughts.

I have not had ECT but I know we do have members that have. There is another area to our forum that might be some help..http://forums.psychcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?f=122 it is listed under "other treatments" and includes ECT, you can scroll through there for some ECT threads or make a thread there. Also you could make a new thread in this bipolar forum and put questions about ECT in the title so everyone will see that, and hopefully you will get the info you and Clinte need.

Please send our love, and make sure to take care of yourself too Clinte's Mom!

http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=232551

This is a good topic on ECT...

http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=93949

This is another intro topic about it that suggests adult treatment center/day programs as opposed to ECT. (The last post)

I think that enrolling him in a outpatient day-program would help on top of whatever treatment he gets. An outpatient program usually lasts a few weeks and he would be in close-contact with professionals who could help further his stabilization. I also think that an outpatient program would help because it will give him structure.

Yes an outpatient program would be good, and offer more intensive therapy. It did help me a lot. Maybe there is a program there through the hospital that would be able to work for him .

I am sorry I dont have any experience on ect to share but I just wanted to thank you for letting us know about Clint and tell him I hope he is feeling better very soon.

Hi Clinte's mom,
Thank you for letting us know. Can you tell him hi, and I'm proud of him for going in for help. I have no experience with ECT. Sounds pretty scary to me personally, but some people here do it. We can start a new thread on here with ECT question in the title if you want, to try to get you more responses. Let us know. My best wishes for you and your family. Nice to meet you, thanks for coming on here and keeping us posted. Clinte's a sweetie.

Another "hello" here... from me to both Clinte and yourself and to join the chorus of thank yous for letting us know. Your son is part of a really amazing community of caring people -- and it's true--- we really do think about others here even when we're not online, and do worry when we don't see someone, especially when they are having a rough patch.

I don't have any personal experience with ECT, but hope you find the threads that others linked helpful. Also agree with others in that posting with ECT in the title of its own thread should prove useful in eliciting answers from those that have had it.

Sending best wishes for everything to go well and sss

thank you i will. He is concerned as the doc seems to want to try ECT if you know anything or anyone that has had this i would appreciate any information you could give me!

Yeah that would be great if you could do that for me. I am at work and trying to do whatever i can for him at this point. Thank you for being his friend and giving him the support that he needs. I myself work on a bp page on facebook talking to ppl and trying to continue my research into this illness. Nice to meet you also i will def pass on the message to him

Thannk you caring it means a lot to me to know that there are others that care for him. He is my heart and my life and i want to do whatever it takes to get him better. i will keep searching on the ECT deal and maybe if someone can start a new thread on ECT it would be greatly appreciated as i can only hop in here to see if anyone has messaged him or to see if anyone has ever gone and had ECT done thank you again!!

thank you for keeping us informed hope your son does well tell him we miss him

Ok... thread started!

Thanks i will check into that. today he is slipping down as he has has a couple of days that were up i hate these cycles for him. Thanks again for the info

Thank you so much for helping me out on this!!

I will def let him know and thank you for your caring. Hope all is well with you!!!

Thank you so much

So how is mom holding up? It can't be easy!

Check the ECT thread too, there's already responses on it!

I am doing okay thanks for asking. just keep waiting for him t call but will be calling him soon. He is a little on the downside today and yes it has me worried to a point but he is strong and i know he will be okay

Thanks for letting me know just got off work and was going to check, but i first wanted to check the messages