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    Feingold Elisa S DO

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    Schwartz Joseph A MD

    Schwartz Joseph A MD

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    This review is for anyone who is considering having ECT…read more Dr. Schwartz saved my life in 1997. His research-based level of ECT treatments kickstarted my brain into finally starting to respond to medication. I thank Dr. Schwartz for that, and I also thank God, because Dr. Schwartz had given it to me straight: not everyone responds positively to ECT, and the research-based treatment plan that he had formulated for me (a lot more than what patients usually receive) was likely to induce memory loss. He told me what it would be like for me if that were to happen, and he told me that research had not yet shown if the memories would be erased or only blocked. With his straight, objective information, not trying to sugar-coat the prognosis or railroad me, he put the informed decision into my hands. I considered it very carefully. I finally decided that it was incrementally better to jump off the ECT cliff than it was to let the depression swamp suck me ever-downward and kill me, as it had almost done in 1996. I thank God that He chose that I was in the population of people whom ECT would help. A doctor may tell you statistics of risk and benefit, but neither you nor the doctor knows on which side of the statistics you fall, as an individual. Dr. Schwartz had told me that. He had empowered me to make my own decision. And I thank God that my body was one of those that responded. I actually was able to rebuild my memories over the next few years, slowly. I was able to go back to school, even when I still couldn't remember very much from before 1997. I made it through. The process was slow and hard, but it was very much better than the swamp. People who are not depressed have an unconscious assumption that they take for granted. It's a basic, vague belief that they are not presently undergoing trauma. They don't fathom what it's like to not have that background assumption, to be seriously depressed and to experience every waking moment as trauma. It is ironic to me that there is stigma regarding a person with serious depression, as though they were weak in their character, as though they were choosing to not function. I would honestly like to see how someone self-righteous, passing judgement on people with depression, would survive just one week of serious depression, with different brain chemicals from those they already had--with the trap-door suddenly opened underneath them. I wonder if they would survive even one day. We are stronger than the judges of the world, my friend. We are stronger than them. I wish I could make an "It gets better" video. People had been amazed in 1996 that I had survived. They told me, "God wanted you to survive. You're going to help people and make a difference in their lives." 20 years later, I finally know why I survived. It wasn't for other people; it was for me, so that I could learn how to enjoy something, anything. So that I could learn how to thrive. I function as a manager now, at an aerospace company. I know how to make friends and keep them. I know how to value the things in my family that are precious, even if other things hurt. I have my intelligence back. It really is possible for it to get better, my friend who is considering ECT. Learn all you can. Make your own decision. Keep pushing for your own right to heal, thrive, and function. And please accept a big hug and respect from me for your strength and resilience.

    Feingold Elisa S DO - psychiatrists - Updated May 2026

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