Electro Convulsive Therapy Archives – Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR

03 Aug

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CCHR Calling for Ban on Torturous Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Mental Health Watchdog calls upon the FDA to ban the ECT device from use after finding electroshock causes brain damage, memory loss and death. The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida announced its support of ...

21 Dec

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ECT: The Ultimate Child Abuse

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It is hard for many to believe that ECT is still legally performed. Yet many psychologists and psychiatrists still insist this barbaric “treatment” does something more than damage brains. For instance, Edward Shorter, PhD believes that sending up to 450 ...

18 Sep

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ECT: Psychiatrists Admit Harmful Effects but aren’t Worried About Them

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Dictionaries define “harmful” as coming from the word harm, which means “causing or likely to cause physical injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted.” In the alternate world of psychiatry, “harm” becomes a good thing, where intentionally firing 70–150 volts ...

21 Aug

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Florida Supreme Court Opens The Door For Potential Flood Of Psychiatric Damage Lawsuits

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For too long, victims of psychiatric abuse in Florida have suffered in silence. But on June 26th, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court held that the state’s caps on personal injury for noneconomic damages in medical negligence (such as permanent disability, ...

22 May

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ECT: Psychiatric Abuse of Elderly Patients

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Why do psychiatrists increasingly treat the elderly with electro convulsive therapy (ECT)? One of the greatest fears of those approaching old age is memory loss. The fading or complete disappearance of one’s major life events and precious memories is a ...

27 Jan

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Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

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What is at the heart of a new demand for mental health legislation in Florida? Obviously, Floridians love to help. Most all of us would stop and assist a lost child, happily provide food to hungry veterans or provide holiday ...

01 Dec

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Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

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When psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy fail to relieve a patient’s depression, psychiatrists report he has “treatment-resistant depression”. This patient is then a prime candidate for any experimental lunacy that the profession dreams up because the poor victim feels he ...

01 Dec

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ECT: Documented Dangers

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ECT is in the news again, with vested interests pushing this barbaric torture device as an actual “therapy” and attempting to broaden its use by sneaking it in through the 21st Century Cures Act. Disturbingly, this proposal – given new ...

17 Nov

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Why Even the FDA Was Forced to Admit ECT Machines are High Risk

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ECT Victims Speak Out Almost 6 years ago the FDA explored whether psychiatric electroshock machines should be considered to have the same risk to patients as powered wheelchairs and air purifiers. In January of 2011 an FDA advisory panel held ...

17 Nov

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21st Century Cures Act – Hidden Dangers

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The 21st Century Cures Act has a decent purpose to help those with life-threatening diseases by giving them previously unavailable treatment. For example, if someone has late stage cancer he or she could be treated with a relatively untried medication ...

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