[cluckindan]

Anecdotal, but I had a friend who had ECT for their depressive symptoms.

They ended their life a few years afterwards.

So no, ”very often works on depression” is not a characterization I would use.

[retsibsi]

> So no, ”very often works on depression” is not a characterization I would use.

I'm (genuinely) sorry about your friend, and I don't deny that it's worth sharing these anecdotes. But a single anecdote comes nowhere near refuting the claim that ECT very often works on depression.

The current state of scientific knowledge seems to be that it does very often "work", at least as a fast-acting short-term treatment for very severe depression.