Dear @kimspr3, yes, ECT treatments are given in the same amounts as you remember. Some people take a treatment once a month forever. They swear it does a world of good for them, but I never noticed any good or bad affect. I only had about 4 or 5 sessions. I do understand that the process used to be much more brutal. My mother-in-law took treatments without sedation; it was awful. She forgot so many things; how to cook, her place in society and the world, and my father-in-law took care of her for the rest of her life. She because very religious (she was pretty devout even before, but she became scrupulous. I'm not making fun, but you had to be very, very careful what you did with her anointed palm because she burned it in the night when she was afraid. She was the sweetest of women, and she would do anything for you she was able; the same with my father-in-law. I was blessed to have them given the abuse in my own home. But back to ECT, I found it not to be helpful, but I met a young women during my process who believed she absolutely could not live without it. Same question involved with any treatment we have gone through in our lives - it works for some of us, not for others of us.

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