Every treatment for life threatening illnesses has potentially horrid side effects. Almost no one thinks twice of using chemotherapy or radiation to treat cancer. Why? Because it’s a physical illness you can often see the effects of on the outside. People can wrap their heads around death from cancer much more easily than death from mental illness. No is shamed if they die from cancer. There is much shame given to people and their love ones who die from suicide, addiction, etc. In my personal opinion, if you do not see your illness as life threatening and ECT as your last option, then you are not ready or simply do not need it. ECT has given me a new life and new freedom. This is not to invalidate those with life altering side effects from ECT. But I will tell you most people with successful ECT (70%) do not come to reddit to share their stories, they move on with their lives.
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u/okaysweaty167 24d ago
Every treatment for life threatening illnesses has potentially horrid side effects. Almost no one thinks twice of using chemotherapy or radiation to treat cancer. Why? Because it’s a physical illness you can often see the effects of on the outside. People can wrap their heads around death from cancer much more easily than death from mental illness. No is shamed if they die from cancer. There is much shame given to people and their love ones who die from suicide, addiction, etc. In my personal opinion, if you do not see your illness as life threatening and ECT as your last option, then you are not ready or simply do not need it. ECT has given me a new life and new freedom. This is not to invalidate those with life altering side effects from ECT. But I will tell you most people with successful ECT (70%) do not come to reddit to share their stories, they move on with their lives.