ECT has side effects and is not a permanent fix, with some patients requiring maintenance ECT every three months to sustain the effect.

“it has some problems you don't want to give it too much and there can be side effects but it's incredibly effective what's the durability of it uh it depends up some patients need uh what we call you know maintenance electroconvulsive therapy so after three months or so uh the effect will be diminished and and they'll require uh to stay alive effectively patients who are for example just acutely suicidal uh and they'll need every three months or so what we call maintenance uh or continuation uh electroconvulsive therapy or ect so it's not a it's not a permanent uh fix”