Memory loss is concomitant of ECT. The only question still to be answered about memory loss is how severe is it? Psychiatry unashamedly says that memory loss is short lived and that memory returns with days or weeks. This claim is complete nonsense of course, how could it be anything else? How could anyone possibly know what they’ve forgotten? You don’t know what you no longer know. How much memory has been lost is something that ECT patients have to adjust to, sometimes quite quickly and sometimes over many months. 

If you forget members of your family, your friends or what you do for a living, then you’ll be aware of it very quickly. But over the following months you’ll begin to realise that you’ve forgotten skills that you once had or experiences that you went through. Interests and passions that once meant so much to you now mean nothing. Perhaps you were creative, you cooked, you sewed, wrote poetry, painted. Now you wouldn’t know where to begin and anyway you don’t feel driven to create anything at all. If we consider that we are the product of the memories and attitudes that have shaped us, then without those memories we are no longer ourselves. What were the people who were once close to us supposed to make of the changed person that was presented to them as the person that they once knew but who was qualitatively different?

Most importantly, how could a third party, a psychiatrist say, possibly have any understanding of how much of your memory has been lost. They would have had to have had an inventory of everything you ever knew in order to say that this or that memory has been lost or is now restored. Psychiatrists claims about memory loss are absurd. Narcosis patients have suffered two fold damage, they have lost precious memories and in some cases lost the ability to make new memories.