My husband is hospitalized involuntarily again... This the 5th psych hospital over the last 20 months. We had a normal happy life, met when we were teenagers, dated, attended college, grad school, traveled, got married, had 2 boys... And then suddenly he suffered a psychotic break in May 2011. He has been tormented ever since and I have been unable to help heal him. He has seen nearly 20 different psychiatrists and tried multiple medications but has never cleared his delusional thinking. Right now, the diagnosis seems most likely Psychotic Depression. Doctors have suggested ECT before, but this hospitalization is the first to mention of court-ordered ECT.
I've read others accounts which help tremendously. I think I'm opening up to the idea mostly for lack of any other options. He won't voluntarily take oral medications so for now he's on Haldol which only provides marginal benefit. He doesn't consistently eat or bathe (he's 6'2" and 140lbs!) so.... We are desperate. Scared but desperate.
Involuntary ECT
Posted - 01/07/2013 : 01:17:19
