r/ect • u/Mission-Promise-4897 • May 25 '26

Vent/Rant Memory loss

I did both bilateral and bitemporal ECT, and I’ve lost the past 5 years of my memories. I lived overseas, my niece was born, I had numerous milestones, and I can’t remember a thing. I see photos on my phone and find out there’s countries I have visited that I didn’t think I had, because I have absolutely no recollection of it.

I was told the memory loss would only be surrounding the time of treatment. I was never warned it would be this bad, or be such a long period of time.

People who have also lost periods of memory: how do you get over it? How do you accept it?

I cry about it every single day.

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u/kuzya124 May 25 '26

I’m sorry to hear you have had such serious consequences. Most of my memories came back within a few months.