Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial treatment
This controversy is well earned as:
- The devices used to generate seizures have never been tested by the FDA for safety or efficacy
- ECT treatment is not standardized or regulated
- Consent forms don’t warn patients of all risks before treatment
- People injured by ECT are not given proper testing or rehabilitation
- Many are still given ECT 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 unmodifed (without anesthesia or muscle paralytics)
- ECT is given to vulnerable groups including pregnant women, veterans, the elderly, prison inmates, people with autism, and children 13 and younger
Our Aims
- Educate the public of all ECT’s immediate and long-term risks
- Help injured recipients access comprehensive testing and rehabilitation
- Help injured patients report their injuries to the FDA
- Help families impacted by ECT injury understand and support their loved ones
- Provide a place for those injured to be heard
Audit ECT Campaign
We advocate for:
- Safety testing, regulation
- Fully informed consent
- Mandate appropriate testing & rehab for all ECT patients
Who we Are
- Former ECT recipients
- Psychiatric patient safety activists
- Allies from various medical & mental health fields
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Latest Posts
- You might be in a medical experiment and not even know it
- The American Psychiatric Association (APA) opposed mandatory neuropsychological testing for patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
- How to Give ECT – Royal College of Psychiartry Instruction Sheet, 1982
- Electroconvulsive treatment: hypotheses about mechanisms of action
- Serotonin syndrome after electroconvulsive therapy for refractory depression

Report ECT injuries to the FDA
Learn why adverse medical reporting matters and how you can submit yours to the FDA.
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