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In july of 1998, I came home to find my 15yo daughter had hung herself in her bedroom. I cut her down did cpr(I am a critical c nurse of 10 ys} I unable to revive my daughter she died. I have been suffering flashbacks, hallucinations have been followed by shadows since happened. I recently started on ECT would like r opinion of adjunct to my rapy. I haven't been able to work last 6 months due to sympoms becoming progressivly worse. I cry all time suffer from terrible almost nightly nightms. i am on celexa seroqual something else i get now. my question is how will ECT help me my depression or problems??

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I am very sorry to hear of your loss. It is understandable that anyone in your situation would be vulnerable to symptoms of depression as well as post traumatic stress. ECT is the most effective treatment of depression. To the extent that you have S/S of depression, it may well help. It is usually done after medications have not worked well enough or in a severe situation. It is hard to predict efficacy in the situation that you are in, but the treatment would fall within the parameters of standard practice for severe depression which has not been helped by therapy or medications.