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‘I was in a darker place than I’d ever been. ECT was my only hope’: how Ted Scheinman finally broke through his depression

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Troubled from the age of three, by 35 the American journalist viewed himself as ‘the lowest piece of dirt on the Earth’ – and neither therapy nor drugs seemed to help. But there was one thing he hadn’t tried …
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