&gt; Do you have some confidence that the ECT worked for a reason other than placebo?<p>I found great relief from it that seemed distinctly different from before the ECT. I haven&#x27;t found much reason to think about it more than that—I&#x27;m not in the business in prescribing treatment, but I&#x27;m grateful for what I did find. Sylvia Plath&#x27;s <i>The Bell Jar</i> has an excellent description of the aftermath of the treatment that roughly aligned with my own, albeit I experienced it much slower than how it was depicted in the novel.