Will ECT help depression bipolar combo?

I had gone through ECT early this year cos I am medication resistant. But sadly, it didn't work for me, eventhough my psychiatrist told me that over 90% of patients who went through it came out feeling better than before.

ECT works faster and is more effective than medication. However, it is normally used at a last resort for medication-resistant patients or those who are in serious suicidal state.

Please do not worry about all those negative stories about ECT. It is done in a very professional way. You'll be sedated before the actual procedure starts. By the time you wake up, everythings is already over and you have no recollection of it whatsoever. It can also be done as an outpatient, which means you don't have to be warded for those days when your ECT is being carried out.

Short term memory loss is one minor side-effect of the ECT. Nothing major for you to worry about.

Wish you All The Best in your ECT treatment.

Take Care,

Depwill

ECT is nothing like in the movies.

You are sedated and will not feel or remember anything.

We use ECT for people that go off their medications a lot and/or people who medication do not seem to help.

Basically what is hoped for is to reset the brain so that it is better with little medication.

I am sure you can type in the word ECT in search engine and find out more.

It has helped lots of people. You will have short term memory loss for a short while after but a friend of mine who was really ill had several sessions and her mood improvement was like a different person took over her body. Not everyone would have the same improvement, but try it. You'll be asleep so you won't have to think about it. Give it a try. If you let fear stop you, you'll never know if you'll have any relief from the bi-p.

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NO NO NO NO Dont start messing arround with that it has sum REALY REALY BAD SIDE AFECTS and it dosent do anything but destroy your memory the way mental health likes people to be and befor you know it your money and anything else you own WILL BELONG TO PUBLIC TRUST and GUARDIANSHIP will have the say over you body and then your ******. Public trust wont pay your bills or rent and you will find your self out of house and home as well as money. What makes you think you have Bipola.What makes you think you have a mental illness in witch mental illness is over egzagerated. PLEASE READ DONT ASK ITS ALL TRUE.

DON’T ASK

Don’t ask don’t ask what Mental Health can do for you but what Mental Health will do to you.

1) Force you to have a DRUG ADDICTION to pills.

2) All Medication is Addictive and you will takem if you like it or not, Don’t take it you will get ill, That’s what thay call mental illness then get the POLICE to drag you back to the unit.

3) Mind Altering, Designed to change the way you think to more of a dopier person who will lack in motivation.

4) Side affects can start immediately and in fact the Medication it self can take up to 6 weeks or more before it might start working the addictive side of things can start within hours.

5) You will be given a case worker. A case worker is only there to check that you are becoming addicted to the pills and even with out notice call the police to drag you back to the Mental Health Unit with out warning and against the Mental Health Act 2000 section 117 under the involuntary community.

6) In most cases you will be given electric shocks about 12 or more of 300 volts as a part of your treatment. ( It’s ok Mental Health will tell you it’s good for you, Ever had an electric shock !!!! ). IT’S OK you will only have convulsions for a while then after that maybe SEIZERS. Look it up on the internet ELECTRICCONVULSIVE SHOCK TREATMENT. ( Dose it sound fun yet ).

7) After you have been ELECTRICUTED 12or more time you will be classed as incapacitated and then be referred to the GUARDIANSHIP AND ADDMINASTRATION TRIBUNAL were they will give everything you own to the PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF QUEENSLAND who gets to keep all your money wont give you a cent wont pay your rent plus what ever they want that belongs to you. GUARDIANSHIP will have the say over the rest of you, When you can see a Doctor and when you carn’t or what you might need to feel better it has to be oked by them who also wont answer any call you make to them.

8) Between MENTAL HEALTH, PUBLIC TRUST and GUARDIANSHIP together the will gang up on you and your family or friends stop them from seeing you by BLAMING them off ripping you off when your not, Ask you questions at the Tribunal about your bank statement that only the bank could answer that’s how they get everything you own by asking you questions you carn’t answer.

9) Complaints if you have a complaint no one in the system out of 100’s of numbers you will be given no one will explain any thing to you, You will be told to call quality complaints who will tell you they have nothing to do with MENTAL HEALTH they will also tell you to go away and don’t ring us, But you will be threatened with the POLICE or SECURITY and brought before more Tribunals.

10) Mental Health can change there minds at any time they feal like it tell you are going home when you are not really give you extra pills before a Tribunal, ( To help drug you out for the incapacitated look at the Tribunal to get there way ). Change your medication when ever they feel like it to more of a stronger drug and the more you own the stronger the drugs.

11) At the MENTAL HEALTH TRIBUNAL will run you down with things they could not possibly even no and anything you tell them will be twisted and used against you and anything anyone else says.

12) Over rule anything you or your family mean to you such as power of attorney, Your parents being your guardians and over ruling any rights or say your parents know about you and call then a layer and they don’t know what thay are talking about.

13) Get your bank statements from the Bank Account, Centerlink, Phone Account, Internet, Power Account, Real-e-state and do back ground checks with out you knowing it and even take you to court and send you some were your family wont find you.

14) Mental Health can and will let every one in your street that you are under the Mental Health ACT and even drag you from Home, Work, if you are working in front of all your work mates.

15) Get you alone in a room by your self under the influence to try and get you to sign papers by your self and if you don’t sign the papers, ( To be ELECTROCUTED, Ever had an electric shock ), They can and will sign them for you and say you did and its an emergence to have you ELECTROCUTED and the MENTAL HEALTH Tribunal will say yes. Even if you are under the influence and not fealing in your right frame of mind cause of the medications, Or don’t want it.

16) Always switching a