Tag: women and ECT
Stop Shocking and Torturing Women ā My Sisters
Think of all those women who have undergone or will undergo electroshock and suffer severe losses in memory, intelligence, special skills, creativity. Women too disabled by shock to pursue promising careers. Women who suddenly die after being shocked. Electroshock is torture, and informed consent in psychiatry is a myth and a lie.
The āTime to Strikeā is Now: A Call for Anti-ECT Activism
This is a call for action against the horror euphemistically known as āelectroconvulsive therapy.ā At a time when society is finally making advances against ECT, a courageous 80-year-old shock survivor, Connie Neil, has decided to go on a hunger strike to try to stop the horror that was visited on her from continuing to be visited on others.