Mental Illness Fellowship Northern Territory

Its hard to make the committment to the ECT treatment. For me it was 10 sessions over a fair period of time. I am on anticonvulsant medication normaly so its a bit tricky triggering the seizures for the ECT to make it work under those circumstances.

You have to be quite committed to the treatment as the side effects like confusion and past memory triggering can be daunting. It can take a while to get back to normal after sessions. But on balance it has helped me a lot for mood and kept me out of admissions definitely.

I enjoy writing on the forum. I am very shy and quiet normaly so it really has brought me out of myself to participate. It has also let me expose my personality a little bit which in normal life I just dont do.