Lisa Morrison

Trainer | Consultant | Public Speaker. Trauma, adversity, wellbeing. Together everything is possible💛. Part time @PPR_Org #NewScript. Involved @KyrieFarm.

[Lisa Morrison @LisaTMSA]

I’d never shared my story in services. Yesterday I was ready, healing, surrounded by loved ones, @PPR_Org #NewScript activists & @ReadReadj talking about the evidence re safety & efficacy of #ECT. View https://t.co/bN5mm6KHad

On #IWD ‘Medicalisation of distress = #VAWG!!

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

The latest (8th) paper from our international survey.
Full. Free.
Great to give a voice to so many previously unheard people.

“An international survey of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy recipients” - Harrop et al
https://t.co/6Wy4n6Dh6g

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Coverage of the latest paper from our ECT survey https://t.co/3HxuqUWLlR

[Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx @PsychRecovery]

Family is the basic unit of society. But what happens when a promised "safe and effective" medical procedure acts like a hardrive wipe of all experiences? Relationships rooted in shared experiences are destroyed. 275+ family members shared their experiences with #ECT and how it impacted their loved ones. This peer-reviewed article (published today) in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

My dad, a gentle, soft-spoken, hero-of-a-man, had never previously been candid with me about his thoughts witnessing my ECT experience.

When I asked him if he'd be willing to share a statement for the media about the article giving family members a voice, he sent me the following:

“The immediate effects of my daughter’s ECT were startling: memory loss. We are, after all, the sum of our memories. She knew I was her father, but she did not remember anything about our relationship. I was told this would be short-term. They lied. Even worse was the long-term effect on her physical health. It was a prescribed massive electrical injury, again, and again, and again. Typical long-term results of multiple electrical injuries include neurological damage, depression, anxiety, PTSD, migraines, hearing loss, reduced cognitive abilities, and/or attention difficulties, along with chronic pain. She got most of those, plus some extra.”

I wish our ECT experience was an anomaly. I wish that raw pain had been isolated to a single family to protect the others. Sadly, these survey results indicate more families were harmed in ways far worse than I was.

This is why the @FDA must enforce their 2018 ruling adulterating ECT devices and @CMSGov must cut off funding until doctors have training in how to chose an electrical dose that can reliably replicate research findings on their individual patient with a unique head size and shape.

The last survey response highlighted in the article is a devastating example of what can happen when a doctor isn't trained in how to choose a correct dose, the clinic isn't prepared for manufacturer identified treatment consequences, and the hospital's lawyers bury it.

My dad's heartbreaking explanation of his witnessing my ECT experience could have been so much worse in this medically sanctioned Russian Roulette. #AuditECT
@Chris_E_Harrop @LisaTMSA @ReadReadj @BasedMikeLee @MakeAmericaHA
https://t.co/hGWf4CQnW3

[Lisa Morrison @LisaTMSA]

@PsychRecovery 💔

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

An article by Sue Cunliffe, a co-author of our ECT survey.
I was a successful doctor, then ECT blew my brain to bits https://t.co/hEsSNekCTJ

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Honoured to be invited to provide a 4-hour seminar in the “Master Clinician” series for the Psychiatry Department of Stanford University on March 20. Online. On Psychosis….. “Beyond Diagnosis”

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

https://t.co/JFN6VfIPwY

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

https://t.co/TrYYYzUfT7
Thanks to Prof Baldinger-Melich for graciously allowing us a right of reply to her editorial in Int. J. Psychiatry in Clinical Practice.
@PsychRecovery @MITUKteam @lifeafterect @christophlane @JDaviesPhD @RichardBentall @UEL_News @UELPsychLondon

[Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx @PsychRecovery]

Question for all: Are critiques of ECT scaremongering or contributions to informed consent? #AuditECT ⁦⁦@MichelleFunk3⁩ ⁦@Mad_In_America⁩ ⁦@ReadReadj⁩ https://t.co/0z2GGIsMac

[The Power Threat Meaning Framework @PTMFramework]

What 776 ECT Recipients Want You to Know https://t.co/aT4LxVMMyj via @MITUKTeam Documenting the devastation caused by ECT. Written by an ECT survivor.

[Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx @PsychRecovery]

What 776 Electroconvulsive Therapy Recipients Want You to Know -@Psychrecovery via @Mad_In_America https://t.co/Cr1dEKa9Ex @DrJosefWD @MindFreedom @PsychRights @NAMIAdvocacy @LauraDelano @Altostrata @VRworkforce

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Open questions of ECT patients designed by patients and researchers (us) vs closed questions of the psychiatrists giving the ECT, designed by psychiatrists. Free article in full.
The self-reported positive and negative effects of electroconvulsive t... https://t.co/xHiZRC22M2

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Uncovering the True Impact of Electroconvulsive Therapy Through Open-Ended Questions
@UEL_News @UELPsychLondon @PsychRecovery @Mad_In_America @MITUKteam @RichardBentall @CEP_UK @markhoro @joannamoncrieff @dranneguy
https://t.co/vmUjBW9jTv

[Mad In The UK @MITUKteam]

Childhood Trauma and Recent Stressors Rarely Addressed; ECT Given Instead
By John Read

https://t.co/HNPZmd05Fd

#MentalHealth #TraumaInformedCare #ECT #Psychiatry #MedicalEthics #MentalHealthResearch
#HumanRights #EndMedicalModel #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

New date Jan 20th: An Audience with an Ally – Professor John Read
@UEL_News @joannamoncrieff @DrJosefWD @PsychRecovery @LisaTMSA @JDaviesPhD @markhoro @TuominenPiia @PTMFramework @DrJessTaylor

https://t.co/kT5CQgane2 via @MITUKTeam

[Lisa Morrison @LisaTMSA]

@ReadReadj @PsychRecovery @MITUKteam @lifeafterect @RichardBentall @JDaviesPhD @DrJessTaylor @UEL_News @UELPsychLondon @TuominenPiia @MedicatingNorm1 @timwand Thank you John & the rest of the team💙. One day us ‘patients’ in mental health will receive equal care. Placebo-controlled studies for a treatment inducing a seizure in the brain. Modern standards of evidence-based medicine. And just being believed. The least we should expect!

[Lisa Morrison @LisaTMSA]

‘Our findings are not unique … Multiple previous studies have found that the majority of users of mental health services, internationally, are neither asked about adverse or traumatic events nor have them adequately addressed if they do disclose them’👇🏼Seizures to heal abuse🤷🏼‍♀️

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Childhood Trauma and Recent Stressors Rarely Addressed; ECT Given Instead
@PsychRecovery @LisaTMSA @MITUKteam @lifeafterect @RichardBentall @JDaviesPhD @DrJessTaylor @UEL_News @UELPsychLondon @TuominenPiia @MedicatingNorm1 @timwand

https://t.co/SjeVN7GFRw via @MITUKTeam

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Huge international coverage of our survey . https://t.co/xa8doLIoUN

[Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx @PsychRecovery]

"The results of our #ECT patient survey highlight the absence of routine identification and treatment of the real causes of our [“psychiatric”] symptoms. These results demonstrate I am far from the only person prematurely prescribed #ECT without finding out what was really going on and what I really needed."-@PsychRecovery

“Recent stressors also went largely unrecognized. Some 81% of Electroconvulsive Therapy recipients reported at least one significant stressor in the six months before treatment, most commonly loneliness or coercive/emotional abuse. 67% believed these stressors played a role in their difficulties, but only 34% were asked about them, and just 21% felt they had been addressed.”

#AuditECT @Mad_In_America @DisabilityRiCo @UNHumanRights @DisabilityCA @HHSGov

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

ECT Patients Not Asked About Causes of Their Problems | Psychology Today https://t.co/pX0EIZK9F2