Greetings!
My first ECT was a piece of cake. Recovery was quick, with very little memory loss. However, #2 was en entirely different story.
The second treatment hit me real hard. I spent 2-3 days in somewhat of a daze, and confused. I had to ask my wife for the simplest instructions...
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I so fear this
ctrygirl
Saturday, July 05, 2008 at 08:51 AM
It was good to hear about your experience, I have so been afraid of ect that i literally wouldn't go to a pdoc for 3 years util i had a MAJOR breakdown. I made the silly mistake of watching one flewover the cuckoos nest and even though my med doc kept telling me i needed help for i was bp i denied it and got angery and refused to go for there wasn't "Anything wrong with MY mind" in my eyes and oh boy was there ever...i knew i wasn't acting right, behaving the way i normally do and that things were getting much much worse, finally when hallucinations and delusional events began to happen to me i sought help ...reluctantly and defensively i might add...but it was the best decision in my life and once diagnosed it was like a lead weight off my back..there really was something wrong that maybe a prescript could help me with, took me a while to realize this is a life long illness, and thoroughly explained my past actions way back to young adulthood and teenager hood.....it was a like a revelation of so that is why.....ya know...and even though it took 53 different attempts at cocktails of meds well, i think doing better....i am a very rapid cycling mixed mood bp and it is hard for i also have tactile delusions, hallucinations, delusional thinking at times and those are the deepest most intense parts of my life. Literally wake up every day and see what i deal with today and by afternoon it could be whole other scenario....weird....but i want ya to know i loved your post on would you take a magic pill..for even with all that i go through i know there are so many out there with medical conditions so much worse, so much more intense and in need of assistance....if i hadn't been so stubbornly ignorant of the mental health forum then i doubt (as does mypdoc) that i'd be as intensly hard to treat....they claim that the meds they give me don't always work as they should something about being medication resistant and most meds work opposite on me...tehee...typical bp huh??? but anyway, i so enjoy your posts and have subscribed to your shareposts...hope that is alright..
and thank you for sharing the information on ect i soooooooo fear that, know it is unfounded but can't get those images out of my head ....never should have wached that and know things are different now and i was just at a very impressionable stage i guess when saw it, but oh Jack Nicholson can so play the part huh??? wowo...but a good one to watch to counter that one was A Beautiful MInd...if haven't seen GRAB IT it is good one!!
thanks for sharing this for there have been moments that my pdoc was on the verge of having me do the ects and then found out my intense fear of it....i so can't imagine if it would make me loose any of my memories per say....my daddy, my lifelight, my support of supporters passed away and i treasure those memories like air itself...so that is anothe fear...
did you lose any memory in the process of it all???
thanks again and keep posting you're post are very interesting!!
your friend and glad we met
ctrygirl
It was good to hear about your experience, I have so been afraid of ect that i literally wouldn't go to a pdoc for 3 years util i had a MAJOR breakdown. I made the silly mistake of watching one flewover the cuckoos nest and even though my med doc kept telling me i needed help for i was bp i denied it and got angery and refused to go for there wasn't "Anything wrong with MY mind" in my eyes and oh boy was there ever...i knew i wasn't acting right, behaving the way i normally do and that things were getting much much worse, finally when hallucinations and delusional events began to happen to me i sought help ...reluctantly and defensively i might add...but it was the best decision in my life and once diagnosed it was like a lead weight off my back..there really was something wrong that maybe a prescript could help me with, took me a while to realize this is a life long illness, and thoroughly explained my past actions way back to young adulthood and teenager hood.....it was a like a revelation of so that is why.....ya know...and even though it took 53 different attempts at cocktails of meds well, i think doing better....i am a very rapid cycling mixed mood bp and it is hard for i also have tactile delusions, hallucinations, delusional thinking at times and those are the deepest most intense parts of my life. Literally wake up every day and see what i deal with today and by afternoon it could be whole other scenario....weird....but i want ya to know i loved your post on would you take a magic pill..for even with all that i go through i know there are so many out there with medical conditions so much worse, so much more intense and in need of assistance....if i hadn't been so stubbornly ignorant of the mental health forum then i doubt (as does mypdoc) that i'd be as intensly hard to treat....they claim that the meds they give me don't always work as they should something about being medication resistant and most meds work opposite on me...tehee...typical bp huh??? but anyway, i so enjoy your posts and have subscribed to your shareposts...hope that is alright..
and thank you for sharing the information on ect i soooooooo fear that, know it is unfounded but can't get those images out of my head ....never should have wached that and know things are different now and i was just at a very impressionable stage i guess when saw it, but oh Jack Nicholson can so play the part huh??? wowo...but a good one to watch to counter that one was A Beautiful MInd...if haven't seen GRAB IT it is good one!!
thanks for sharing this for there have been moments that my pdoc was on the verge of having me do the ects and then found out my intense fear of it....i so can't imagine if it would make me loose any of my memories per say....my daddy, my lifelight, my support of supporters passed away and i treasure those memories like air itself...so that is anothe fear...
did you lose any memory in the process of it all???
thanks again and keep posting you're post are very interesting!!
your friend and glad we met
ctrygirl