After reading the comments in this thread it is clear that people are not current with how ECT is administered in the modern era.
1. You are under general anesthesia
2. The dosage of electricity is very low when compared to how it was done before.
3. The electrical currents are far more focused
Stuff like personality changes or loss of creativity is no longer a risk factor. Risks tend to be those associated with general anesthesia and mild memory loss around the treatment.
I had over 2 rounds of 15 treatments over a 6 month period. I haven't had a serious relapse in the 5 years since. I had tried every SSRI and SNRI my insurance would cover. I had been in therapy for over a decade. I was suicidal. ECT saved my life.
How does the memory loss manifest? Are you aware that you lost time, like can you feel that you did experience time pass for X amount of days, but you just don't remember what took place? Or is the feeling that the time never passed at all, like it was Monday and you woke up on Friday, but it felt like it was actually Tuesday morning, and you have no intuitive feeling that a week passed at all?
1. You are under general anesthesia 2. The dosage of electricity is very low when compared to how it was done before. 3. The electrical currents are far more focused
Stuff like personality changes or loss of creativity is no longer a risk factor. Risks tend to be those associated with general anesthesia and mild memory loss around the treatment.
I had over 2 rounds of 15 treatments over a 6 month period. I haven't had a serious relapse in the 5 years since. I had tried every SSRI and SNRI my insurance would cover. I had been in therapy for over a decade. I was suicidal. ECT saved my life.