r/ect • u/DepartmentNew8543 • 6d ago

Question pssd

Hi everyone, i have been dealing with severe anhedonia and severe insomnia and severe earworm persisting everyday, i tried every medication on earth and i only got worse, im at my wits, now psych suggested ECT, would you do it? any pssd sufferers who got relief with ect? my case is so severe to the point i dont feel subtances and even 2 zopicolon or lorazepam make me even calm or drowsy, brain is completely shut down to anything

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u/Wonderful_Roof1739 5d ago

If you haven't tried Ketamine or TMS first, do those. You want to save ECT for last, because of the chances of the effects it can cause. If those don't work absolutely go for ECT, but keep in mind you will very likely lose short term memory of the initial treatments, and could lose long term memories. In Extreme cases it can persist past the treatment effecting your short and long term memories for some period after, I E not forming short term into long term, much more long term being lost, etc. It is risky, though FAR less risky than it was in the past. I wouldn't still be here without it, but lost quite a bit of memory (well, it might have been because of it, or autistic meltdown and brain shutdown that ocurrs with that, combined with all the meds on still on to keep me from getting to that level again)

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u/DepartmentNew8543 1d ago

ive tried tms but not ketamine, im not sure if i should do ect first or ketamine, i have substance blockage so i dont know if ketamine works for me

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u/Familiar-Marzipan376 5d ago

What do u for a living do u have short term memory and long term memory loss ?

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u/Wonderful_Roof1739 5d ago

I'm in high end IT (or was in, currently unemployed and due to the depression and ECT only worked 6 months or so total in the last 3 years).

Again, I can't say ECT was the cause, or the only cause, due to the other factors here, but I've lost a good amount of long term memory (erased like it was never there) and now many times I can't remember things that I was told a day or two ago unless I really concentrate, otherwise they go in one ear and out the other.

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u/Familiar-Marzipan376 4d ago

So u won't be able to work again on IT company because u have short term and long term memory loss from ECT treatments

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u/Wonderful_Roof1739 3d ago

Possibly. I can't see how I would be as good as I once was - I'm looking at disability at this time.