Whose Finger is Taking the Pulse of America’s Shock Treatment Controversy?
Learn about ECT's latest controversies regarding slack of safety testing, regulation and standardization.
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December 15, 2020
ECT Suicide – Tammy
The following tweets are about Tammy. A beautiful woman who killed herself because she couldn't live a life after ECT. The damage was just to much to bear. The constant headaches/ brain Damage. But worst was the DENIAL OF DIAGNOSIS AND SUPPORT.
November 25, 2021
TESTIMONY OF JOHN M. FRIEDBERG, M.D., NEUROLOGIST, BEFORE THE MENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE OF THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
We have had 60 years of poignant testimony from eloquent victims of electroshock. Ernest Hemingway complained it ruined his memory and put him out of business. He killed himself within weeks of concluding a second course of ECT.
November 25, 2021
Electroconvulsive Therapy Success and Failure – Two Patients Discuss Their Different ECT Outcomes
This guest audio is from the Emotional Self Reliance Podcast, Sarah Hancock and her friend, Greg Threadgold have both had electroconvulsive therapy with remarkably different outcomes. In this episode they compare their different ECT experiences and discuss the need for better regulation of this procedure to ensure good outcomes for all patients.
November 16, 2021
ECT Device Reclassification – The Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network to FDA, 2009
while other medical devices have had to undergo the rigorous safety investigation known as PreMarket Approval (PMA), the FDA has allowed shock machines to be used for over thirty years, not only without requiring clinical safety trials, but without any scientific evidence that the devices are either safe or effective.
November 11, 2021
ECT Device Reclassification – International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology to the FDA
The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology is calling upon the FDA to keep the Class III schedule until PMAs are performed on the devices. In truth, we would suggest an impartial review of the evidence requires the withdrawal of ECT machines from the market.
November 7, 2021