No way would I let them do ECT on me!
Yes I would refuse, I wouldn’t even consider it. I have enough problems without frying my memory too.
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So are you thinking of coming off of aps?
My friend and his wife get etc treatments.
The effect is tempprary, but the side effects don’t seem to be.
It really impairs their memory, and she speaks word salad for days afterwards
I would absolutely NEVER accept ECT “treatment”. ECT turned my schizophrenic father into a vegetable and I’m not ever going to let that happen to me. ECT is barbaric!!!
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As a last resort - i actually would. I knew a severely clinically depressed woman that turned for the better for having it.
I dont actually think i would ever need that level of treatment tho. I respond well to my current medication.
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My first time in the ward, there was this guy there who was begging the staff for ECT.
Like, legit begging.
Who begs to have their brain scrambled by choice?
…Nothing short of horrifying.
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Hard no for me. Zzzzzap. Nope. No.
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No way. Just hearing about memory loss is enough to stop me already
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I dont like the subject. It makes me paranoid. I thought my mom was given electroshock against her will when she was an activist.
I’ve heard that ECT is safer these days but I don’t blame you for being afraid of it. I would probably try more options myself before doing it.
In her early young adult years, Rosemary Kennedy experienced seizures and violent mood swings. In response to these issues, her father arranged a prefrontal lobotomy for her in 1941 when she was 23 years of age; the procedure left her permanently incapacitated and rendered her unable to speak intelligibly.
I wonder if thats why they only let you use markers in psyche wards. If people knew the power of their own minds…
My mom’s parents had her hospitalized when I was seven years old. It was for a suicide attempt and I found her suicide note in 2016. It said “Im sorry, the money is in the hall.” and the truth is she had actually left and she was found at a bus station. I dont see how it ended up a suicide attempt or if that was a lie too. She lost her inheritance and thats part of her current delusional fits. I wonder if I asked her if I could find some truth because the haldol puts her in a fog, and she wont react to anything nor does she remember things accurately. Memory accuracy is key to recovery from psychosis.
So all I know is she thought she was being blackmailed by agents, her suicide note mentioned a bunch of money she had left for someone in the hall, that she had tried to leave or “run away” as I overheard them talking, that she had letters from people that weren’t them…I dont know if it was all delusion…maybe someone was trying to spook her into this.
She also claimed she was forced ECT in the hospital. But after my dad yelled at her and told her she was delusional she said she only “felt like” she was being shocked in the hospital.
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