# Electric shock treatment
**URL:** https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568
**Category:** Mental health
**Tags:** Anxiety disorders
**Created:** [3 September 2018 09:50 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568 "2018-09-03T09:50:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1158680](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1158680)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 09:50 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/1 "2018-09-03T09:50:08Z")
HI has anyone had electric shock treatment, as last resort and it worked, is it on aday case as well,thankyou, going to phycatrist tomorrow not sure if there is anything left pill wise for me to take
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1168233](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1168233)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 11:29 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/2 "2018-09-03T11:29:04Z")
Havw you theied any benzos...
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1168233](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1168233)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 11:29 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/3 "2018-09-03T11:29:29Z")
Have you tried I meant
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### Author:  [@anon87974465](https://community.patient.info/u/anon87974465)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 13:40 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/4 "2018-09-03T13:40:47Z")
I thought they didn't do this anymore
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1065359](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1065359)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 17:13 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/5 "2018-09-03T17:13:38Z")
Have you tried any of the old antidepressants called tricyclics. I am trying nortriptyline it’s to early to tell was on 3 weeks on Saturday
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1158680](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1158680)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 21:53 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/6 "2018-09-03T21:53:46Z")
HI I have tried amitripaline, which is sort of the same, for years but gave me rapid heart beats, and sweating, are you getting any of that
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1065359](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1065359)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 23:33 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/7 "2018-09-03T23:33:46Z")
No just my pulse has increased and constipation. I still have bad anxiety unless I take a Klonopin. Have you tried Paxil I will try that if this doesn’t work. Zoloft worked for 23 years then pooped out. Tried Prozac, Lexapro and venlafaxine
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1065359](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1065359)
#### Post date: [3 September 2018 23:34 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/8 "2018-09-03T23:34:28Z")
did Amitriptyline stop the anxiety
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1156538](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1156538)
#### Post date: [4 September 2018 00:10 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/9 "2018-09-04T00:10:51Z")
Mrs Susan,
Wow please tell me all about the electric shock treatment. It sounds very archaic.
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### Author:  [@anon87974465](https://community.patient.info/u/anon87974465)
#### Post date: [4 September 2018 17:13 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/10 "2018-09-04T17:13:32Z")
It is and as far as I know they don't do it anymore. Years ago when I was in hospital some people had it I asked the nurse about it she she said the eletros put on your head gave you a convulsion and apparently that brought you out of the depression they had to have quite a few the people that were having it.this is only what the nurse told me.
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### Author:  [@nh\_user\_1156538](https://community.patient.info/u/nh_user_1156538)
#### Post date: [6 September 2018 15:26 UTC](https://community.patient.info/t/electric-shock-treatment/676568/11 "2018-09-06T15:26:57Z")
OMG that is like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. I’d try it! Acupuncture works great for headaches anxiety and pain. I go for my Zen time! 😇