rebafan asked this question on 4/22/2000:
I've spent the last four hours reading some of the answers here. At least one "expert" is blatantly, fundamentally ignorant about depression: PLEASE take care when reading replies in this forum! Just because a person claims to be an "expert" does not mean that a person is! If you see any "expert" suggest Scientology or CCHR, please be very, very cautious when considering that person's reply.
ECT is an excellent and effective treatment for depression that resists all other treatments. It is safe and effective.
Anti-depressants are also totally safe and effective. They do not make one "worse," nor do they make you "angry" or "violent." If you read an "expert" who says otherwise, please realize that that "expert" does not know what she or he is talking about.
PLEASE seek expert medical advice from trained medical professionals--- take what you read in this forum with great skepticism. If you read an answer from an "expert" that suggests you not seek psycological or psychiatric advice and treatment, dismiss such "advice" because that "expert" does not know what she or he is talking about.
Your mental health and well-being is far, far too important to risk on taking advice from self-professed "experts" in this forum. Your telephone book will list psychiatric and psychological experts for you, and provide you with actual help and advice.
PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS HERE!
psychomania gave this response on 5/4/2000:
To say that ECT is an excellant and effective treatment for depression that resists all other treatments, is not only sceptical but down right ambiguous. Have you had personal experience of this treatment, which has had a positive effect on you. Even the experts who use this type of treatment, as a last resort. Do not know how or why it works, on the rare occaision that it does. Or is this the foundation of years of empirical evidence, studied by yourself. To sit reading Ask Me answers for 4 hours must come under some category of psychological disturbance. Perhaps yours is the narcissistic syndrome, studied by Billington, Hockey and Strawbridge (1999) Where they suggest the people who warn of other peoples ideals, which do not conform with their own ideals must be wrong. Rebafan what or who do you think that you are. I am sure the rest of the Ask Me group are well aware that 99% of all that is written in the answers to their questions, should be taken with a pinch of salt. The aims and objectives of this group are not the competitive expert opinion of anothers expertise, in a given subject. But to meet and converse with other people around the world and have a little fun. Given there are some poor bed bound and psychologically disturbed people who use the service to confirm and substantiate their ideas, come on REBAFAN lighten up. Stop reading and contrasting others views and get out and live a little. My humblest appologies if you yourself are bedbound. YOURS SINCERELY, PSYCHOMANIA
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