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I'm not making any assertions about your condition. Do you have some confidence that the ECT worked for a reason other than placebo?
by sleepychu 11y ago
I'm not making any assertions about your condition. Do you have some confidence that the ECT worked for a reason other than placebo?
- duaneb 11y ago> Do you have some confidence that the ECT worked for a reason other than placebo? I found great relief from it that seemed distinctly different from before the ECT. I haven't found much reason to think about it more than that—I'm not in the business in prescribing treatment, but I'm grateful for what I did find. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has an excellent description of the aftermath of the treatment that roughly aligned with my own, albeit I experienced it much slower than how it was depicted in the novel.
- jdietrich 11y agoECT is often seen as an archaic and barbaric treatment, but there is reasonably good evidence to suggest that it is an effective short-term treatment for severe depression. The question isn't really whether it works, but whether the benefits are worth the risk of side effects. That is largely a personal decision for a patient to make rather than a matter of public policy. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta59/chapter/4-Evidence-and-interpretation https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta59/chapter/4-Evidence-and...