Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial depression treatment
This controversy is well earned as:
- The electroshock devices used to generate seizures have never been FDA safety tested for safety or efficacy.
- ECT treatment is not standardized or regulated.
- Consent forms do not fully inform patients of risks before undergoing treatment.
- ECT is still given to many by coercion or force.
- No one who administers ECT is required to understand pathophysiology of repeated exposure to high (bipolar-pulsed) electric fields nor do they have training in Physics to distinguish between ECT settings (pulsed electric fields.)
- In some countries ECT is still given without anesthesia or muscle paralytics.
- ECT is given to vulnerable groups including pregnant women, veterans, the elderly, prison inmates, autistic, and children as young as 13.
- Injured ECT patients are not given proper testing or rehabilitation.
Life After ECT Aims
- Inform public of all ECT risks.
- Help injured patients access necessary resources for testing and rehabilitation.
- Help injured patients report their injuries to the FDA.
- Help families impacted by ECT injury understand their loved ones symptoms and needs.
- Provide a platform for those injured to be heard.
Audit ECT Campaign
- Safety testing, regulation.
- Fully informed consent.
- Mandate appropriate testing & rehab for all ECT patients.
Who we Are
A coalition of concerned:
- Injured ECT patients
- Peers injured by psychiatric intervention
- Allies from various medical & mental health fields
- Journalists
Are patients being fully informed of risk prior to signing consent forms?
No.
#AuditECT
What about a brain injury caused by your psychiatrist? Patients injured by #ECT have been let down with no advice of risk in consent forms, no adequate cognitive testing, poor regulation of treatment and no rehabilitation for cognitive impairment.
#AuditECT now
#LifeAfterECT
Many people living with an acquired brain injury need help and support from a range of services.
That's why we're asking for your views on what should be included in the government’s #ABI strategy.
Have your say during #ABIWeek22 🔽
https://consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/62222c750b1ca136807bca20
@Deseret @mlsandgren #AuditECT
@benzosarebad It's quite clear to me that pro #ECT psychiatrists want to keep these issues out of the public gaze. I can see why. Their abandonment of brain damaged patients is utterly despicable and wrong.
#AuditECT now.
The bias is plain for all with eyes to see. These powerful people have nothing to say about poor quality research in favour of #ECT, and nothing to say about the dire state of regulation and safety monitoring of this dangerous procedure.
Self protection rules.
#AuditECT now.
@DocAdrianSk1 @ReadReadj @joannamoncrieff @ClinpsychLucy @CunliffeSue @PsychRecovery @BentallProf @Chris_E_Harrop It makes the claims that powerful people like to see publicised.