[ SECRET POST #2696 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2696 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

op here. Quite a while back. We're both early 30's now. But I'm fuzzy on the timeline. I last saw her in 2000, 2001 I think? At that point, she had not gotten the treatment, though she had spend a few mental in mental care by then. But I do not know when she first got the treatment, somewhere between then and now. Her issue is (as I understand it) that she's bipolar, but I think there's an underlying issue of trauma I do not know the details of (but she has hinted at).

She herself said the electroshock cause the memory loss - I only have her version to go by of course, and I only have shards of what happened as it is.

What's "iffy" about it is that I feel (again from what she said) it was not her own decision. She can't hold a job and is financially dependent of her parents, and (she says) her mother threatened to cut her off financially if she did not get the treatment. I do not really know the woman - I met her once or twice, maybe 15 years ago. sadly it's all sort of messed up.

[(Anonymous)]

Different Anon. Her situation sounds horribly toxic and as if her parents made her dependant on them in every area of life. They probably had meant well, in some wicked abusive way, to force her into treatment so "she'd get better" and "have motivation". I hope your friend does get better and her situation is improved.

On the electroshock treatment - the side effect is indeed memory loss, but short-term. Mostly it's just confusion. Never heard of someone dealing with long-term memory effect, but mind is a tricky thing and doctors can botch things up.

[(Anonymous)]

My uncle got electroshock therapy a few years ago when he was suicidally depressed. It was horribly botched. He didn't remember his kids afterwards, his marriage was destroyed, and his family is left in debt. On the plus side, he's still alive, which shouldn't be taken lightly, but it took a tremendous toll on all of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's a really difficult decision to make - for some people it's life-saving and amazing, for others life-saving but awful and for some just awful. But if you have medication-resistant suicidal depression, the alternatives are pretty shit too.

[(Anonymous)]

It could also be medication -- I was in treatment around that time myself and I have huge gaps in memory tied to medicine I was on.

[(Anonymous)]

me too