ECT hits it harder, and allegedly, in many cases, "reboots" it to a point of being normal (i.e. non-depressed), if the SSRI hits fail to work. Wanna hear somet

ECT hits it harder, and allegedly, in many cases, "reboots" it to a point of being normal (i.e. non-depressed), if the SSRI hits fail to work. Wanna hear something even trippier from my shrink's mouth? In cases where ECT failed - and not many at that - as an alternative, nicotine therapy broke the depression, restored feelings of normalcy. :) Obviously, they didn't have the patient take up smoking, since there are other ways to administer nicotine only without the 4000 byproducts of smoke, but it made sense, since I believe most of my family is depressed and the whole lot of them have been decades long smokers, to this day. Cool stuff huh? Grab that Camel pack now ;)