Only if your depression is rlelay severe. ECT (shock therapy) causes permanent memory loss that can be pervasive. Also, I am not sure if it's effective enough to replace the need for medication. You'll probably either need regular shock treatments and/or maintenance doses of medication in order to prevent another relapse of your depression.What you need, is therapy with an experienced therapist. Therapy teaches you skills to overcome the thoughts and actions that cause and/or contribute to your depression. And you can get to the root cause of your depression, if there is one. Basically you learn coping skills. Generally therapy is short term, less than 6 months depending on the issues. And if things get bad later on, then you can go in for booster sessions. However, you may still need medication for awhile to prevent relapses if you are unfortunate like me to be especially biologically susceptible to depression. Also, therapy doesn't work that well if you are very severely depressed. It's hard to learn and make changes when you are rlelay depressed. It's better to become a little less depressed and then start therapy.If you are already in therapy and then unfortunately you may need to be on medication for awhile. I know it sucks, but think of depression like a chronic illness that you need to take meds for.

It can be useful. I wdloun't have stuck with it for 8 years if it was completely useless. I just found that its proponents (like proponents of anything) over promised and under delivered.Alternative health care providers also don't seem to know when they are in their circle of competence and when they are not. This is not just limited to them, but I found this to be a big thing where a provider could help me with one thing and then claim to be able to help me in other areas where they were clueless.