Do you have a sucess story about ECT?
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My father has been undergoing ECT treatment for bipolar disorder for the last 8 weeks and it has not been working for him.  He says it is better than nothing but not nearly as good as the medication (lithium).  He started ECT because he ended up with toxic levels of lithium in his system for a while that gave him cognitive impairment.  It is hard to say if the ECT is keeping the cognitive impairment going or stopping it where it is.  Overall, the treatments are OK and he hasn't experienced any memory loss.  I hope this helped, and good luck.
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I have had a few!!!  I cleaned a respite home for mentally and physically disabled people while I was at college, I was hoovering a room when one of the patients started being sick, as he had a hole in his throat where he was tube fed, it sprayed all up the wall out of the hole, that was pretty disturbing.\n\nI worked for a short time in a beauty salon, owned by a semi-famous hairdresser so no names as I don't want to get sued, she was an absolute psycho b*tch from hell and her husband was an arrogant man, they made it their mission to make every member of staff cry at least once and made my life heel every day.  I hated that job so much I faked illness and told them I was not coming back.
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Yes. Years ago I was sooo suicidal; I tried many antidepressants; but they didn't help enough. I ASKED for ECT and after 7years I am still alive and, and the quality of life is much better. It sucked at the time cuz I woke up with a headache and didn't know where I was. It screws with short term memory, yet it gets better over time as does the depression-if you are taking an antidepressant
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That child hood experience sounds bad! Yeah I've got some bad experiences, but I'm not really prepared to tell the whole world them!!!
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Is this the story you're looking for?\n\nhttp://our.homewithgod.com/holyspirittemple/hummingbird.htm
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I have seen and heard quite a bit.  I investigate the paranormal and also live in a house with some activity.  \n\nI have quite a bit of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) recorded.  Just two nights ago, I recorded someone saying, "Go back", "Interesting" and "Can you hear that?".  The recording also includes kids laughing, moans and someone blowing gently into the mic.\n\nI once saw a drop of water fall from the bathroom ceiling into a bowl in the tub.  I even heard it land and saw ripples.  There was no sign of water on the ceiling and the bowl was nowhere near the faucet.\n\nI saw my daughter standing across my bedroom staring at me.  I looked away and looked back.  She was still there.  I did that again and she was gone.  It wasn't my daughter because she is very afraid of the upstairs.  She senses a presence that doesn't want her up there.  Besides, I would have heard her go up and down the sqeaky stairs.\n\nShe has seen a bearded man in army fatiques standing near her in the living room.  Also, in her bedroom, was a little girl in a white dress messing with the blinds.\n\nMy 2 yr old son was in my bedroom and told me he saw a "ghost dog".  He ran and hid under my covers.  He wouldn't come out for quite some time and wouldn't let me talk about the dog.
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I know many people would be delighted to answer your question, but we need you to be more specific. What is your personal experience with whatever is troubling you, and what exactly are you talking about?
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actually i would also love to see some epileptic seizures to use in one of my projects about epilepsy... thank you for ur question
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Sorry to hear of your friends difficulties!  The opinions regarding ECT and its side effects are widly varied and often contested.  One side stating it as almost harmless and the other beleveing it is akin to torture.  Finding the truth can be hard and depends on the practioners and individual PT greatly.  Most will agree that ther will be some degree of memorey and even motor loss for a period of time. Just how much and how long are of great debate.  \n\nMost people suffer the greatest loss in the short term and as their brains "reorganize" over time memorey improves substantualy.  There may always be some amnesia surrounding the time of the treatments, but that is usually not of any significance in the long run.  Profound long term memorey or motor problems have been linked to improper aplication of ECT treatments, uncontrolled seazures during or post ECT leading to hypoxia or arrest, very long series of treatments or extended treatment cycles for unresponsive or  relapsing PTs, and other rare fators or occurances.  \n\nIf you friend continues to have prolonged difficulties or the symptoms increase, please incurage her to speak with her psychiatrist about the problem.  Even if it is something that is affecting her life greatly or a concern to her, she should bring the concerns up to her mental health provider.  There are many resources on the web to help both of you in dealing with  this problem.  Just google ECT side effects or other related topic and you will get lots of hits.  Just don't take any one as the absolute word on the matter, look around and decide for yourselves.\n\nGood luck to you and your friend!
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We could use more information. Do the bumps itch? If not, that's strange. I'd be interested in hearing what you find out.
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TELL ME ABOUT U SOMETHING
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Not mine I'm afraid, but a friend emailed and told me about this guy that bought an electronic stun-gun for his wife's personal safety. He didn't want to give it to her without being sure it would work when needed so decided to test it on himself.\n\nWhen he finally came to, it was because the spasms of his muscles had eventually jerked the device out of his hand, but he still felt groggy for quite a while\n\nThere was also the person who dropped their cellphone in the toilet. For the 2nd time. Still having trouble keeping a straight face about that one.
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i have had many but there is one that still freaks me out to this day\ni was about 11yrs and me and my mum where in a car that was being chased by (dont laugh) big alphabet letters, numbers and little tigers with sharp claws one of the tigers ripped a hole in the back of the car and got my mum in the back and just as i was about to wake up i realised she was dying\nanyhow i woke up sweating and really scared and i ran into my mums room thru the bed clothes off her and there were all these jagged scratches down her back and if i hadnt of had that dream my mum could have bled to death in her sleep\nthe real scratches were caused by a spring that had come out of the mattress
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I used to work with people with schizophrenia who were recently discharged from the state hospital and now I am a 4th year clinical psychology grad student.  I would love to give you some interesting (deidentified) cases, but I don't feel comfortable leaving my e-mail here.  You can contact me through my profile.
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Scary I was talking on my cell phone and driving there were no cars coming and I was talking to a friend of mine on his cell phone we were going to have coffee..He was working he is a cop and as I was making the turn and i just over stirred my car and crashed it only had it 5 days...My friend got the call from 911 that I had crashed..He was so scared to find me with a bloody nose and that was all..My nose was broke due to the air bag,,,He said that he could not life with him self when he heard the whole crash and then to get no signal and then to get the call..He was so upset needless to say we did have the coffee the next day at the hospital..He brought me my favorite white mocha..mmm \n\nAnd reading your post to me about my son and his buddies..YOU know I never thought of death, just them making babies,,,,LOL\nYou really made me see that next time even though there trip was fine and no problems you made me see the what ifs....OMG did you ~(:}
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I am a paranormal investigator.  I have collected quite a bit of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon).  I have recorded moans, long drawn out breaths, kids laughing and phrases such as:  "Can you hear that?",  "Don't leave", "Interesting" and "It's coming" to mention just a few.  On one investigation I asked if anyone would make their presence known.  About 20 seconds later, someone played with my ponytail.\n\nI also live in a house right now that has a good amount of activity.  My 2 yr old son and I were in my room one morning and he said, "That not ghost dog!"  Then he ran and hid under my covers.  He stayed there for quite some time and wouldn't let me talk about the dog.\n\nMy daughter has seen a bearded man in army fatigues and a little girl in her bedroom playing with the blinds.  She has also seen a cat running around our house numerous times.\n\nI have many times seen shadows all around me.  I've seen a cat running across the floor in my bedroom 3 different times.  One day, I saw a large drop of water fall from the ceiling.  I heard it land in a bowl that was sitting in the middle of the tub.  I even saw ripples.  There was no sign of water on the ceiling and the bowl was nowhere near the faucet.  I have also felt someone nudge my knee while I laid in bed.\n\nMy strangest experience happened one night in my bedroom.  I looked up to see my daughter standing across the room staring at me.  I looked away and looked back.  She was still there motionless.  I did that again and she was gone.  It wasn't her because she's really afraid of the upstairs and I would have heard her go up and down the squeaky wooden stairs.
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I like horror stories, so here are some...\n\n***\n\nAbout six or seven years ago, my family lived along Teays Valley Rd. before the big "industrial boom" of Putnam County. Seems like it went from a farming community to a city right before my eyes. Well anyway, We rented land off of a fellow by the name of Jim Umberger. On this land was an extravagant pre-civil war almost Victorian house. It was simply beautiful. Off to the side of this massive antique sat our trailer. Now I was awful young through all of this and kids will have thier fabled ghost stories, but there was something quite odd about this house. Something was down right sour. \n\nThe story had it (and I know nothing of the truth in this) a family was brutally butchered in the house. Back then, there wasa whole lot of nothing for miles around, so no one even found these folks for a good long time. As a youngster, I had the "creeps" about anything just about, but I've never been quite as frightened of a place as I was here. The place had an eerie air to it. To make things even more insane, my stepgrandmother, Evelyn, died of brain cancer there (in our trailer, of course). My other Grandmothers' entire cancer eaten body siezed up and shut down on her, yet she died oficially in a hospital. Strange things went on at this trailer. Pockets of not cool, but cold air in the middle of July, for example. Once in the winter my mother was out on the town. My younger brother and I were watching some TV when there was a knock on the door. There, on the freshly fallen snow, was nothing. No footprints, no tire tracks, nothing. Needless to say I spent the rest of that night with my head buried under the covers. Speaking of doors, once I heard the doorbell ring, seemed innocent enough, but WE DIDN'T HAVE A DOORBELL!! Pictures falling off the wall, creaky floors and long sleepless nights were only minor nuisences we had to deal with everyday. The most disturbing incidences, however, and the most annoying were when the smoke detectors, located in various parts of the trailer, would take turns going off one at a time. \n\nAfter that, they'd go off simultaneously, quite a ruckus. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who felt a presence, then one night, my mother went completely irate screaming "Show yourself, Evelyn! I'm tired of these f*ck*ng games! Show yourself!" We never saw anything. Things continued as they were until we moved. Mr. Umberger sold the land to someone and it became South Brooke, a ritzy subdivision with $500,000+ houses that wouldn't hear of our humble trailer depriciating thier property. However, I believe they'll get theirs, Although they tore the house down for the project, there was a well and a system of underground streams and springs which probably rendered the whole operation illegal. The thing about the springs and wells may not sound important, but in my own personal research I have found negative forces and spirits can channeol themselves through waterways. I'd like to see how South Brooke likes it's neighbors! \n\nI believe I have some pictures of that house somewhere in the mess that is my apartment.\n\n***\n\nThe story I would like to tell is about an apartment building in Spokane, WA. This building is only about seven years old, if y'all are anything like me you expect a haunted house to be all scary and falling down, not clean with nice landscaping. It really started the day after we moved in, my hubby came in from the deck (I am a cigarette nazi - no smoking in ze house!) scared as heck. I have never seen my ex-marine hubby look so scared. He absolutely would not talk about it! hmmmm. \n\nNot two days later my little year and some odd daughter was supposed to be asleep for the night but instead was talking to someone. Of corse, no one was there when I checked, but I swore I could hear an old lady talking to her. I figured it was my dead grandma, she comes to visit now and t