"i had been in and out of the hospital for many years, tried all classes of anti depressants and even several in different classes, bicyclics, tricyclics, then most of the ssri&#039;s.  after continuing to get worse, my doctor and i decided to try ect (shock treatment). i received 13 treatments (and no, it was nothing like one flew over the cookoo&#039;s nest lol) but it also didn&#039;t help at all.  thirty years burning down the road,  nowhere to run, got nowhere to go... he, as a last ditch effort, tried nardil and to almost sound trite, i pulled a full 180 degree turn around. 
there were a few side-effects, some weight gain and a lessor libido and difficulty to orgasm,  though if you knew me now, you&#039;d know none of these side effects exist any longer!"