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Coping With ECT Brain Damage During the Holidays
For all the shock survivors who struggle with exhaustion: you aren’t weak, lazy or delusional. Your everyday struggles are real and have a cause, even if most people don’t recognize it. Learn about neuro-fatigue. As this article demonstrates, invisible disabilities are just as real and can be as restricting as visible ones. The holidays can be brutal for ECT survivors with noisy, crowded family…
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Magic Depression Curing Seizures or Brain Damage High?
Magic Depression Curing Seizures or Brain Damage High?
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ECT Pamphlets: Somatics
I’m starting a new series on ECT misinformation. It’s will include a collection of ECT pamphlets, brochures, and websites from various companies and clinics promoting and/or offering the procedure. They offer little or no mention of side effects, downplay risks and emphasize benefits. As with drug commercials or advertisements for any other procedure, they imply that more in-depth information…
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Mental Survival
A while back I shared the story of a delightful man, Oliver Swingler. (If you missed it you can read his story here and one of his poems here.) I have some exciting news! Oliver has recently had a collection of his powerful writing published! From Amazon: Mental Survival Description Mental Survival is a collection of articles, personal experiences, poems and songs, mostly centred around the theme…
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Oliver: A Suvior's Poem
Oliver: A Suvior’s Poem
Oliver Swingler generously shared his powerful shock story with with me many months back. You can find that here here. This is another piece of his work relating to his experience with electroshock. ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE THERAPY Elephants don’t arrange to have memories wiped out Larks don’t sing tunes that awaken chronic doubt Electric eels don’t give shocks to others of their kind Cheetahs don’t…
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Former Shock Recipient Claims Lasting Side-effects
Former Shock Recipient Claims Lasting Side-effects
via Mum claims ‘electric shock treatment’ at mental hospital left her with memory problems and headaches – Mirror Online
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FDA Stop the Shock Device Petition Comments
FDA Stop the Shock Device Petition Comments
A handful of the over 800 comments so far on our petition to the FDA. This is a human rights issue. Electroshock is still forced on people, is still permanently damaging brains and shattering lives and patients continue to be uninformed of the dangers and denied help after they are injured. The shock device has still not been FDA tested even though the FDA was instructed to do so in 2011 and, if…
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My FDA Response and Some Afterthoughts
My FDA Response and Some Afterthoughts
There are so many painful emotions wrapped up in this FDA submission. It brings everything I’ve suffered from electroshock, psychiatry and an indifferent medical system and society. This reality usually sits below the surface of my broken mind, then something pulls it to the surface and I grieve all my losses all over again. which I describe in a previous post. This situation with the FDA is even…
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