"been on parnate (tranylcypromine) for about 17 years. like many others felt like a guinea pig when i was first diagnosed. went through about a dozen different psychiatrists. they all just tried different meds trying to find one that would work. i or anyone else could have done that. one convinced me to have ect which i did against my better judgement. it was a nightmare of torture! after the first two i lost all sense of time as well as my memory. i had 14 ect treatments and was nothing more than a zombie! to get it to stop i said i wasn&#039;t depressed any more. finally found a dr. that used parnate."