There are lots of people who think electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) isn’t used anymore. Many people think it’s a psychiatric method that’s only read about in history books.
The truth however is that it’s still being used in over one hundred ECT clinics across the UK. Also known as electroshock, it’s been cloaked in controversy for decades.
Here in the 21st Century, ECT psychiatrists are in denial about the damage caused by their ‘work.’ Here’s the science lesson: when an electric current flows through the brain, the electrical energy is converted into heat, raising the temperature of the brain. The larger the current, the more heat is produced. If the temperature gets too high the cells suffer temporary injury, permanent damage, or even death.
Psychiatrists however claim the ECT procedure is ‘new and improved,’ that it’s ‘safer’, but that’s marketing hype. The anaesthetics and paralysing agents that are used can make ECT appear less barbaric but that’s only for the benefit of the person observing the procedure. For the person being shocked, there’s no difference.
Despite scans taken of ECT patients showing scarring and brain shrinkage, psychiatrists are keen to deny that brain damage has been inflicted. When shocking a person, the psychiatrist is looking to induce a seizure but it’s recognised that seizure activity promotes brain damage. With ECT, psychiatrists produce seizures in their most serious form while claiming they are therapeutic.
Psychiatrists can also claim a person needs more shock treatment to prevent relapse. They call it maintenance, continuation or booster ECT, but when all of the psychiatric justifications are removed, it’s a method more likely to be found in an interrogation manual rather than a healthcare manual.
Psychiatrists are in no position to claim ECT is safe or effective because their knowledge of its very basics is sorely lacking. They typically don’t understand the laws of electricity and are thus operators who set the knobs and push the buttons without understanding the ramifications of what they’re doing.
Psychiatrists are unlikely to accept responsibility for the damage being inflicted hence the need to continually expose this abusive psychiatric practice so that governments recognise the inhumanity and take the necessary steps to protect vulnerable patients from this torture.
I had 39 bilateral ECT’s. It’s hard to explain if you have never had an ECT but it’s barbaric. I have short and long term memory loss. I don’t fit in conversations I have trouble following. Poor concentration even when I really try hard. People sometimes catch on pretty quickly and take advantage of me pretending they want to be my friend. It’s hard with family because I truly don’t remember things. My own dad aunt and brother and my mom’s before she died disowned me. I don’t have any friends. I tried claiming tbi with the veterans affairs and they keep changing it and denying my claims when it’s so obvious before and after. I hold useless degrees in math computer science and business minor in statistics and economics masters in insurance
I had 39 bilateral ECT’s. It’s hard to explain if you have never had an ECT but it’s barbaric. I have short and long term memory loss. I don’t fit in conversations I have trouble following. Poor concentration even when I really try hard. People sometimes catch on pretty quickly and take advantage of me pretending they want to be my friend. It’s hard with family because I truly don’t remember things. My own dad aunt and brother and my mom’s before she died disowned me. I don’t have any friends. I tried claiming tbi with the veterans affairs and they keep changing it and denying my claims when it’s so obvious before and after. I hold useless degrees in math computer science and business minor in statistics and economics masters in insurance