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The ECT Chronicles: Jumpstarting a life with a little spark to the head
http://alittlespark.wordpress.com
A young woman's chronicle of her journey to regain her life through electroconvulsive therapy. The journal intertwines personal accounts of living with bipolar disorder with relevant current mental health news and studies
- Added on: Mar 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: yumers
- Listed in: Health Women's Health
- Tags: depression Mental Illness mental health bipolar disorder ect electroconvulsive therapy
Recent Posts
military plus meds equal normalcy?
From TIME magazine: America’s Medicated Army Data contained in the Army’s fifth Mental Health Advisory Team report indicate that, according to an anonymous survey of U.S. troops taken last fall, about 12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17%...
Bipolar & Unipolar Patients Show Similar Response to ECT: Psychiatric Times
Patients With Bipolar and Unipolar Depression Show Similar Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy – Psychiatric Times. “Results of a large study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health showed that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT...
“Good Luck”
Apparently Fridays are happenin’ days for ECT. There seemed to be a lot of people here to have ECT at Parthenon Pavilion last Friday. When I was making my way up to the ECT treatment area, there was another person, along with who seemed to be...
AP: AstraZeneca buys rights to experimental antidepressant
The Associated Press: Targacept, AstraZeneca cooperate on depression med. Under terms of the agreement, AstraZeneca will pay Targacept $200 million upfront upon effectiveness of TC-5214, Targacept’s late-stage investigational treatment for majo...
Antidepressant Found to Alter Personality: US News and World Report
Antidepressant Found to Alter Personality – US News and World Report. In this month’s Archives of General Psychiatry, Northwestern psychologist Tony Tang says that the antidepressant medication paroxetine, or Paxil, fights depression most...
ECT #24 (my ninth maintenance treatment)
Have I really had 24 ECT treatments? I was originally supposed to have 6 to 12… Dr. F, my ECT psychiatrist, asked me today how I’d been feeling the last few weeks. I admitted that it’s not been the smoothest of weeks. My place is a ...
