The LA Times today ran a story about the wonders of ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy - "Shock" therapy). Apparently the Times didn't do their homework. If they did they'd find that the only difference between ECT and getting hit in the head with a baseball bat is that with the bat you have visible scars.
For a profession to think that running hundreds of volts of electricity through someone's brain could be considered a therapy only shows how desperate and insane these "professionals" really are.
As proof that this brutality is somehow good for a living being, they trot out a few examples of people who say they can function better in life now that they've been "treated". (Of course they close their eyes to all the people who commit suicide shortly after the treatments.)
This faulty reasoning is the same thing as bringing out someone who got hit by a Mack truck, had a near death experience that changed his life, and then telling people that it's good therapy to sit on the freeway during rush hour.
Any child knows it's dangerous to stick your finger in an electrical outlet. So what's the problem with these psychiatrists? Are they that stupid? Or are they just plain evil?
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Awesome article. Here's an explanation of how this is meant to WORK!
How Electric Shock "Works"
1. The patient is injected with an anesthetic to block out pain and a muscle relaxant to shut down muscular activity and prevent spinal fractures.
2. Electrodes are placed on the temples bilaterally (from one side of the brain to the other) or unilaterally (front to back on one side of the brain).
3. A rubber gag is placed in the mouth to keep teeth from breaking or patients from biting their tongues.
4. Between 180 and 480 volts of electricity are sent searing through the brain.
5. To meet the brain’s demand for oxygen, blood flow to the brain can increase as much as 400%. Blood pressure can increase 200%. Under normal conditions, the brain uses a blood-brain barrier to keep itself healthy against harmful toxins and foreign substances. With electroshock, harmful substances “leak” from blood vessels into the brain tissue, causing swelling. Nerve cells die. Cellular activity is altered. The physiology of the brain is altered.
6. The results are memory loss, confusion, loss of space and time orientation and even death.
7. Most patients are given a total of six to 12 shocks, one a day, three times a week.
Ask the foremost psychiatrists and they have no explanation to justify why or how their “treatment” works. It is literally as scientific as sticking one’s head in a light socket. Do it often enough and you will become disoriented, confused, lose your memory or even die. Same result as ECT.
You know your stuff, Don. And the patient is supposed to be the crazy one! What a business.
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