“I Can’t Remember a Single Day”: New Survey Shows Disastrous Memory Effects of ECT

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The latest paper from the survey addresses whether ECT damages memory—both the ability to remember new things, and to remember old. Most of the tests they named would not have picked up the sort of memory problems usually reported. The RCP do say memory problems should be tested for, but do not suggest any particular tests. Consider the respondents to our survey who wrote “I can’t remember getting married” or “I can’t remember a single teacher from high school or a single kid in my class. But crucially, depression does not cause the sort of memory problems brought up by our survey respondents.