ECT Update (few years later)⬅
Channel: RACHELSTARLIVE
Date: 2012-08-17

The Negative:
The treatments did cause brain damage to me. I lost my ability to read and write or do anything with numbers. Most of this has came back over time though, but I still can't sit down and read a book. My memory is pretty shotty. I have giant chunks missing, most from around the time of the ECT and the months after. I have no concept of Left and Right. If given a minute I can figure it out but like giving directions on the shot are hard, if someone says "Lift your left hand" that is kinda confusing. For awhile I was loosing parts of my day and would wake up strange places but this has pretty much stopped happening with time. 

The Positive:
My deep deep depression is gone. I still get depressed but nothing like it was. My OCD and paranoia went away. Also my insomnia went, I still have trouble sleeping but the days and day of no sleep are gone. I am much calmer and laid back, less violent.

ECT did not make my schizophrenia or depression go away but it made it significantly more easy to manage. It's not a magic pill and all these positive things don't just pop up, I did get some immediate relief but some of the positives happened over a short time.

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