Resources

RESOURCES FOR LIFE AFTER ECT Treatment

Life After ECT Resources 

• Podcast
• Action page
• How to Report Your ECT Injury to the FDA

ECT Side Effects

• Electroconvulsive Therapy Side Effects Page
• ECT Side Effects Archives
• Dealing with abnormal heart rhythms booklet

REHABILITATION After ECT

• Comprehensive Neuropsych and Rehabilitation Assessments for ECT Recipients
• Headway – UK Brain Injury Organization
• Home | Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association (noravisionrehab.org)

LITIGATION

• Litigation Page
• ECT Lawsuit Victory – California, 2018
• ECT Device Manufacturer Acknowledges Brain Damage as a Risk of Electroconvulsive Therapy regulatory update
• acknowledging brain damage as electroshock risk 

FORCED ECT

If you or a loved one is facing forced electroconvulsive therapy MindFreedom may be able to help.

• MindFreedom Shield is a support network created to protect peers from forced psychiatric treatment. 

ECT RESEARCH & RELATED STUDIES

• ECT Low-voltage Electrical Injury studies
• ECT Resource Center

ECT WEBSITES & BLOGS

• ECT Statistics Website
• Shocked! ECT –  This site is a comprehensive collection of information about ECT, electroconvulsive therapy (aka electroshock, shock therapy).
• ECT Stories 
• First Person Project – A collection of positive and negative ECT accounts. 
• Psych Rights ECT page –  Links to various works on ECT

TMS SIDE EFFECTS

• TMS Survivor Website

FDA & ECT 

• The FDA’s Regulation of ECT (Shock Treatment): A Beginner (or Refresher) Course

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal & Akathisia Resources

Before ECT, people often try several different psychiatric drugs. But many aren’t aware of the risks, including withdrawal effects from stopping certain medications briefly before treatment to induce a seizure. The following are educational resources on the subject.

PSYCHIATRIC DRUG EDUCATION & RESOURCES 

• Akathisia Alliance 
• Benzo Coalition 
• MISSD 
• Inner Compass Initiative (theinnercompass.org)

Mad in America Patient Resources 

Drug Information 

• How Psychotropic Drugs Act on the Brain 
• Adults: Antidepressants 
• Adults: Antipsychotics 

Drug Withdrawal Information 

• Withdrawal from Antipsychotics 
• Withdrawal from Antidepressants 

For Families 

• For Parents: Home 
• Children : Stimulants, ADHD and other behavioral disorders  
• Children: Antidepressants for depression and anxiety 
• Psychotropic Drugs in Children and Adolescents 

Non-Drug Therapies for Children and Adolescents 

• ADHD
• Depression
• Psychosis, bipolar and more 

Recommended Reading

Personal stories

• From the Lion’s Mouth: Healing from Trauma, Electroshock, Scapegoating, and Grief in a Dysfunctional Family and Psychiatric System eBook
• Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist’s Memoir
• On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering

Books about ECT 

• Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You to Know about Shock Treatment
• A Critical A-Z of Electroshock: Newnes, Craig
• Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy 

Books about mental health care treatment issues 

• Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
• Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
• Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche – Kindle edition by Watters, Ethan. Politics & Social Sciences
• Cracked by Davies, James
• The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth