Luckily Mantagu escaped electroshock. It looks like he was headed down that path since today shock therapy, euphemistically called ECT, is considered a treatment of last resort for patients who no longer respond to psychiatric drugs. Perhaps we would have gained another ally in our ongoing effort to expose this archaic and very damaging intervention. Many survivors, myself included, believe that electroshock belongs in the dust-bin as it is the absolute worst that biomedical psychiatry has to offer and a crime against humanity. It is still as feared and reviled today as it was in the good old days although main stream psychiatry would like us to believe otherwise. It is also perhaps more damaging today because many of its victims are already seriously disabled from drugs when the shock machine is rolled in.
I don’t want a psychiatrist ‘prescribing’ me anything, including psychedelics.
Psychiatry can now inoculate against schizophrenia by blinding likely carriers at birth.
David Healy’s position on electroshock is staggering. He’s done much that is worthy of applause but I would like him to reconsider his opinion of this still very controversial procedure. Dr. Breggin has done such a great job highlighting this unnecessary, cruel and counterproductive practice. These days ECT is typically only used on people who are seriously drug damaged, often during withdrawal, which poses an even greater threat to health and further diminishes chances for recovery. His website carries excellent resources on this subject.
Has Dr Healy undergone ECT? I wish he would refrain from making unfounded statements about this dehumanizing procedure.
I agree with you, Ted. As a fellow shock survivor, as a former anesthetized mental case of 25 years. I personally refuse to tone down my outrage at the psychiatric establishment for treating me and millions of others like hunks of meat. I am four years drug free and will continue to speak out against psychiatric brutality at every opportunity.
Helpful article and excellent comments. Thanks.
Psychiatry isn’t medicine.
I believe Dr Devanand is a well known electroshock advocate.
Yeah
I survived 23 shocks almost four years ago and struggle daily with severe cognitive impairment, long term retrograde amnesia and serious short term memory issues. Doctor Fink is a very dangerous man. Thank you so much for this article.
powerful piece
thank you
A quote from Antonin Artaud: I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Oh , so true. Human sacrifice, scapegoating, chemical and electrical torture. We are
being abused and maimed for experiencing and expressing vulnerability. Our humanity stripped away by the state.
precisely
If ECT is safe and effective why combine with ketamine?
Tina, thank you for this article.
This is brilliant
Abolish psychiatry!
thanks mary, spot on with the c. s. lewis quote. ECT is degradation. ECT is a lie.
Thanks Rachel for your inspiring video. Keep up the great work with HearingVoices Network. Looking forward to more of your heartening contributions.
anyone else out there seriously disabled by electroshock? i’d like to start a ECT survivors
phone support network, encouraging aid and activism concerning this critical human rights abuse. my number is 609 774 2464.
Great talk Steven, thanks
Brilliant article. Thanks, John, for all your work. Your voice means so very much, especially to those
of us who have survived this diabolical procedure. I’m particularly pleased you cited the UPENN
neurologist Peter Sterling. I was shocked at Pennsylvania Hospital 3.5 years ago, which happens
to be the same institution where the infamous mad doctor Benjamin Rush subjected inmates to
various cruelties, such as the spinning chair. Rush’s bust on the APA seal is horribly appropriate.
This article is absurd. ECT permanently damages the brain. Absolutely shameful!
amnesia, thanks for your testimony. my experiences are similar to yours. ‘iatrogenic
insanity’ is a very apt term. i look forward to reading your book.
I would like to see an ongoing discussion/forum about ECT or electroshock on this website. This has
to be one of psychiatry’s most horrendous interventions.
Luckily Mantagu escaped electroshock. It looks like he was headed down that path since today shock therapy, euphemistically called ECT, is considered a treatment of last resort for patients who no longer respond to psychiatric drugs. Perhaps we would have gained another ally in our ongoing effort to expose this archaic and very damaging intervention. Many survivors, myself included, believe that electroshock belongs in the dust-bin as it is the absolute worst that biomedical psychiatry has to offer and a crime against humanity. It is still as feared and reviled today as it was in the good old days although main stream psychiatry would like us to believe otherwise. It is also perhaps more damaging today because many of its victims are already seriously disabled from drugs when the shock machine is rolled in.
http://www.ect.org/effects/headinjury.html
Read this, MT
Thank you, Bonnie
Thanks again, Dr. Hickey!
http://www.ectresources.org/
http://www.ect.org/effects/headinjury.html
pure evil
I don’t want a psychiatrist ‘prescribing’ me anything, including psychedelics.
Psychiatry can now inoculate against schizophrenia by blinding likely carriers at birth.
David Healy’s position on electroshock is staggering. He’s done much that is worthy of applause but I would like him to reconsider his opinion of this still very controversial procedure. Dr. Breggin has done such a great job highlighting this unnecessary, cruel and counterproductive practice. These days ECT is typically only used on people who are seriously drug damaged, often during withdrawal, which poses an even greater threat to health and further diminishes chances for recovery. His website carries excellent resources on this subject.
Has Dr Healy undergone ECT? I wish he would refrain from making unfounded statements about this dehumanizing procedure.
I agree with you, Ted. As a fellow shock survivor, as a former anesthetized mental case of 25 years. I personally refuse to tone down my outrage at the psychiatric establishment for treating me and millions of others like hunks of meat. I am four years drug free and will continue to speak out against psychiatric brutality at every opportunity.
Helpful article and excellent comments. Thanks.
Psychiatry isn’t medicine.
I believe Dr Devanand is a well known electroshock advocate.
Yeah
I survived 23 shocks almost four years ago and struggle daily with severe cognitive impairment, long term retrograde amnesia and serious short term memory issues. Doctor Fink is a very dangerous man. Thank you so much for this article.
powerful piece
thank you
A quote from Antonin Artaud: I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Oh , so true. Human sacrifice, scapegoating, chemical and electrical torture. We are
being abused and maimed for experiencing and expressing vulnerability. Our humanity stripped away by the state.
precisely
If ECT is safe and effective why combine with ketamine?
Tina, thank you for this article.
This is brilliant
Abolish psychiatry!
thanks mary, spot on with the c. s. lewis quote. ECT is degradation. ECT is a lie.
Thanks Rachel for your inspiring video. Keep up the great work with HearingVoices Network. Looking forward to more of your heartening contributions.
anyone else out there seriously disabled by electroshock? i’d like to start a ECT survivors
phone support network, encouraging aid and activism concerning this critical human rights abuse. my number is 609 774 2464.
Great talk Steven, thanks
Brilliant article. Thanks, John, for all your work. Your voice means so very much, especially to those
of us who have survived this diabolical procedure. I’m particularly pleased you cited the UPENN
neurologist Peter Sterling. I was shocked at Pennsylvania Hospital 3.5 years ago, which happens
to be the same institution where the infamous mad doctor Benjamin Rush subjected inmates to
various cruelties, such as the spinning chair. Rush’s bust on the APA seal is horribly appropriate.
This article is absurd. ECT permanently damages the brain. Absolutely shameful!
amnesia, thanks for your testimony. my experiences are similar to yours. ‘iatrogenic
insanity’ is a very apt term. i look forward to reading your book.
I would like to see an ongoing discussion/forum about ECT or electroshock on this website. This has
to be one of psychiatry’s most horrendous interventions.
Your articles are fantastic, thanks!