Comments on: Electro-Shock Therapy

By: Dorothee Krien

Dorothee Krien — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:43:00 +0000

The Cognitive Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Community Settings’, Sackeim, et al, ‘Neuropsychopharmacology’, 2007
http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v32/n1/pdf/1301180a.pdf

By: janet geden

janet geden — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:20:06 +0000

MY COMMENT IS AS ABOVE

By: janet geden

janet geden — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:18:47 +0000

MY MOTHER HAD E.C.T.TREATMENT IN STANLEYROYD HOSPITAL,WAKEFIELD,YORKSHIRE,ENGLAND IN THE 60′S.SHE WAS
DIAGNOSED AS HAVING ANXIETY NEUROSIS.HER FIRST SET OF TREATMENTS WERE WITHOUT ANEASTHETIC.SHE SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION AND O.B.D .IN LATER LIFE IN HER EARLY 70′S SHE
HAD PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND I BELIEVE THERE IS A LINK.I THINK THERE IS A STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT HER BRAIN WAS DAMAGED IN THE EARLIER YEARS BY THE E.C.T. TREATMENTS BUT NOBODY SEEMED TO LISTEN. MY MOTHER WAS A VERY INTELLIGENT WOMAN IN
MANY WAYS.I BELIEVE E.C.T.TREATMENTS SHOULD BE STOPPED.MANY
SUFFERING FROM ANXIETY NEED LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING.MY MOTHER HAD SUFFERED FROM AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH HER
HUSBAND AND I THINK THE TREATMENTS WERE TOTALLY WRONG BUT
SHE ACCEPTED THE MEDICAL PROFFESSION’S TREATMENT BECAUSE SHE
THOUGHT THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.MY MOTHER DIED SEVERAL YEARS AGO BUT I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY ABOUT E.C.T.IT IS AN UNGODLY TREATMENT ON ANY HUMAN
BEING.FORGIVE THEM LORD FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.
JANET GEDEN.

By: evelyn

evelyn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:46:08 +0000

hi…I am Evelyn Wang ,come from Taiwan.

I am an CCHR volunteer!

nice to read your blog.

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Electro-shock therapy « I want more than survival — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:53:59 +0000

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By: mary & jim maddock

mary & jim maddock — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:46:36 +0000

The latest research on electro shock was conducted by Harold Sackeim and a team of investigators in which 347 patients received the currently available methods of electro shock, including the supposedly most benign forms and confirmed that electro shock causes permanent brain damage and dysfunction.

Based on numerous standardized psychological tests six months after the last ECT every form of treatment was found to cause lasting memory and mental dysfunction. ( Tuesday April the 3rd 2007). Is it not logical so that electro shock as a means of healing should indeed be abolished? Who is insane?

By: flowerzzau

flowerzzau — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:08:15 +0000

ooops there it is.
apologies

By: flowerzzau

flowerzzau — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:07:07 +0000

I notice my comment has been deleted.
Please explain?

By: flowerzzau

flowerzzau — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:13:50 +0000

Head Injury

Psychosis can result several years after traumatic brain injury (Fujii, 2002). In such cases a police officer may be unaware of the subject’s history. Head injury, or more correctly stated, brain insult can result from multiple causes. These subjects may be suffering as a result of a swelling of the brain. Pressure on the brain can create aggressive behavior (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2006). Even concussions may result in increasing confusion, restlessness or agitation (Hammeke, 2004; Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, 2005). The most common symptoms will be irritability, anger outbursts, and violence.

The subject may be experiencing a viral encephalitis which can include psychosis, depression, mania, fever, and/or disorientation. The subject’s behavior may look similar to ED. The situation could become fatal to the subject depending on what caused the injury, or brain insult. These types of injuries must be treated by physician.

http://www.policeone.com/writers/columnists/ChrisLawrence/articles/1182796/

See:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ZyCezOxveb8J:www.irct.org/Admin/Public/DWSDownload.aspx%3FFile%3DFiles%252FFiler%252Fpublications%252Fipip%252FGeneric-manual-medical-English.pdf+medical+torture&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=au&client=firefox-a

for a run down on medical examination of electrical torture….. but of course, the nurses exclude descriptions of the burn marks on ECT victims in the daily notes in the Australian ‘Mental Health’ System….. I am told.

By: Foucault

Foucault — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:43:56 +0000

This question was asked of the patient thirty minutes after ECT…while limping with a gait almost as if every bone in his body had been shattered, while walking down the corridor of the psychiatric ward towards his room. “Can you describe how you feel right now?”
Reply. ” Dad…its like you dont know where you’ve been ..and…and…you dont know where you’ve come from…”
Today, he still have night mares and sees blue flashes “in my eyes dad”…