by Robert F. Morgan
Review from OPSA NEWS "This collection of brilliant and courageous critiques is a call to arms to abolish electroshock... I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject." - Don Weitz, OPSA NEWS ECT doesn't help the recipient and is extremely harmful. Brain damage, brain dysfunction and memory loss are common despite psychiatric industry PR to the contrary. In fact, it is the harm caused by the "treatment" which actually produces the "cure" and not any imaginary correction of the elusive "chemical imbalance" or "neurological disorder". Don't allow yourself or anyone you know to undergo it for any reason. It's controlled "electrocution" - not enough to kill, but certainly enough to cause major brain and nerve damage. All psychiatric treatments get their apparent "results" by causing brain damage or dysfunction to some degree.. Without the brain damage or dysfunction caused by the psychiatric treatment, whether overt brain surgery, drugs or ECT, there would be no "results". Care for, listen to, spend time with, and love the person with the problems. Don't shock them. * * * People DO have various problems with life. Instead of naming and redefining these problems as various "mental diseases", and labeling people with them, as is currently done within the psychiatric community, these problems with life and living are best understood and addressed outside of the traditional psychiatric paradigm. Why? Because psychiatric "treatments" such as ECT are barbaric, based upon severe faulty scientific methodology, and harm people.
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