psychiatry | Psychiatric Recovery & Rehabilitation

ECT, Memory Loss, and Learning Difficulties

Photo credit: PsychologyToday used under the "fair use" principle for educational purposes. Many ECT recipients report problems with access to testing for brain injury. Cellular damage caused by repetitive mild traumatic brain injury from high field strength electrical trauma cannot be captured on standard scans. How do you know which test is [...]

By Sarah P. Hancock|2020-12-24T20:41:13+00:00December 24th, 2020|accommodations, ECT, Electrical Injury, employment, Iatrogenic Brain Injury, iatrogenic injury, Memory Loss, Recovery, Repetitive Head Injury, Repetitive Head Injury, Vocational Rehab|0 Comments

Psychiatric Medication Free & Thriving

Celebrating three years medication-free and thriving Background July 24, 2018 I celebrated my 3rd anniversary of living psychiatric medication-free. This happened even after living nearly two decades with mental illness symptoms meeting the diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder bipolar type with catatonia and PTSD. Many well-trained psychiatrists treated my symptoms with psychiatric medicine, [...]

By Sarah P. Hancock|2018-07-26T00:35:34+00:00July 26th, 2018|Akathisia, Anxiety, depression, ECT, Medication, NeuroRecover, Neurotransmitters, psychosis, REM Sleep Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, Vocational Rehab|2 Comments

ECT, Memory Loss, and Learning Difficulties

Psychiatric Medication Free & Thriving

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