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  1. @eastmeetswesttraining3142 on

    A good friend of mine was an amazing videographer before ECT. Started shooting as a kid and went to university for 4 years for it. About 5 years after graduation, she had ECT for bipolar 2. She lost so much memory she couldn’t shoot or edit anymore. Didn’t know how. Completely changed her life, had to relearn a new trade entirely. Now she advocates for this inhumane treatment to be banned.

  3. @ashwinrana6851 on

    It has effects on long term memories as well and I can say that from personal and from other's experience
    I still have problems in trying to recollect many things like names, place, faces etc.

  11. @Bismythical on

    From experience with my mom having gotten it, this is really underselling the amount of memory loss that happens. My mom lost many memories from up to 10 years before the procedure and continues to have worse long-term memory to this day. Before ECT she had near-perfect memory, but now it's like a sieve. It is a life-saving procedure, but you should not sugar-coat the downsides to it.

  12. @jusletursoulglobaby on

    see…. this is a good reminder that movies are LIEEEESSSSS (in my kathy bates voice). I've heard how effective ECT is but since films were my only frame of reference, I never knew people were put under. It makes the treatment sound so much better. small memory loss for that span of time seems more than worth it given its effectiveness

  13. @einochee on

    Dr. Marks, many thanks for the work you do!

    One doubt concerning possible iatrogenic effects after ECT. I personally went through the ECT course twice, and after the second time (about 2 years after the first course, 10 procedures) I experienced cognitive side effects including prolonged memory loss and temporary issues with speech.

    Question is: are there specific preconditions that might result in similar downsides?

  20. @_cloudface_ on

    😂😂😂 yeah, the technique they learned from seeing animals stunned at a slaughterhouse so just trialed it on thousands of poor mentally ill people is a great and safe technique 😂😂😂.
    I once had what they called a "stress induced psychotic episode" and ended up in the psych ward. I kept repeating "No ECT" the moment I got there just in case and they actually found this confusing and tried to talk me into it and then talk my parents into overriding my refusal.
    ECT is right there with frontal labotomy as far as I'm concerned: some easy way to make the patient easier for other people to deal with by destroying parts of the brain and hoping for something just above vegetative state.

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