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Possibly, as an absolute last resort. Not before. It's very unlikely, and at that point it being "more effective" than ketamine is barely germane, since I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel anyway.

But that's what treatment-resistant depression is: either a life in misery, suicide or ECT/Ket as a hail-Mary maneuver. We are not talking about acute depression or people in midlife-crisis.

> which has already destroyed your creativity and ability to learn

Don't think that's necessarily the case.

Loss of focus and difficulty retaining new information are common symptoms for major depressive episodes.

There are other options than ECT which may have fewer side effects.