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Info about ECT

electroshockElectroConvulsive Therapy (ECT) consists of passing an electric current at high voltage through the brain with the intention of producing an epileptic convulsion purportedly to relieve ‘mental illness’ and Parkinson’s disease.

Resulting convulsions are strong enough to break bones. 70% of these treatments are done to women and in the state of Oregon to children as young as twelve years of age. ECT can result in permanent extensive long term memory loss, short term memory loss, cognitive loss, and loss of talents. In psychiatry it is known as the “taming effect”. These “side-effects” are not secondary to anesthesia, but to brain injury.

It is a billion dollar a year industry to participating facilities in insurance reimbursements and research grants. Electroshock is performed in teaching hospitals, some private facilities, and at Kaiser Permanente. It is no longer used as a last resort, but is instead a treatment of convenience and is cost effective. The FDA has never required pre-market approval to affirmatively demonstrate a reasonable assurance of safety or effectiveness. Patients are not fully informed about the procedure’s harmful after-effects.

Many ECT survivors feel it is abusive in nature and often report feeling violated. In retrospect many often state the results of ECT has only added to their initial problems.

Abolish ECT!

Static-Electricity "and the ashes will be blown away from the tops of their heads. It is edict! It is writ!"

Welcome

Welcome to the ECT survivors website.

News & Events

  • Don’t swallow everything you’re told as the truth May 22, 2019
  • Failure to speak out against ECT May 17, 2019
  • Family Secrets May 14, 2019
  • Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – Mad in America May 13, 2019
  • Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us – Mad in America May 6, 2019
  • An open letter to medical professionals April 24, 2019

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  • After care following electroshock
  • Be a Media Spokesperson for ECT Victims
  • Blog
  • Deborah Schwartzkopff on Electroshock
  • Dr. John Breeding Discusses ECT
  • ECT & Children
  • ECT & Informed Consent
  • ECT Destroys Lives
  • ECT Questionnaire
  • ECT Survivor Kenny on Life After Electroshock
  • ECT Survivor Mary Maddock’s story
  • ECT Survivor Stories
  • FDA’s 2011 Hearings on Reclassifying ECT
  • Info about ECT
  • Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Effective?
    by Philip Hickey, PhD
  • Medical Records
  • Neurologist John M. Friedberg on ECT
  • No One Should Be Given Shock Treatment
  • Peter Breggin, MD: Electroshock is Brain Trauma
  • Recommended Reading
  • Resources
  • Whistleblowers

About ECT Justice

ECT Justice was created to help advocate for ECT survivors and their families and to gather and disseminate information about known risks of ECT.  If you are an ECT survivor suffering from post-ECT cognitive deficiencies, please know you are not alone.  By sharing your issues, we are able to continue our efforts toward helping ensure that appropriate warnings of the potential risk of permanent injury gets provided to anyone considering ECT. Together we can make a difference.

Recent Posts

  • Don’t swallow everything you’re told as the truth May 22, 2019
  • Failure to speak out against ECT May 17, 2019
  • Family Secrets May 14, 2019
  • Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – Mad in America May 13, 2019
  • Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us – Mad in America May 6, 2019
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