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⚡ In this gripping exposé, the $5.4 billion ECT business, its history, practitioners and devastating results are revealed in graphic detail.
We created Therapy or Torture not to upset you. Or to scare you. But instead, to move you. To put the hammer down on ECT. ...
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The next protest against the use of #ECT is on Tuesday 28 June at midday. We will be assembling outside of Central Hall in London when the World Federation for Mental Health holds its World Congress. You're welcome to join us in the protest against the torture. #mentalhealth
The inhumanity of #psychiatrists is obscured by various descriptions they use to justify inflicting brain damage when using #ECT.
Psychiatrists will say benefits outweigh the risks, but considering the fact ECT is #torture, there are no benefits to torture. #mentalhealth
Calling for #ECT to be suspended or reviewed, is like calling for a suspension or review of torture. The only answer is to ban electroshock and prosecute the #psychiatrists who have inflicted brain damage on unsuspecting people while using the torturous procedure. #mentalhealth
A staff member at Muckamore Abbey Hospital threatened to cut off a vulnerable patient's genitals and break his jaw if he spoke about the abuse he suffered at the hospital which caters for adults with severe learning disabilities and #mentalhealth needs. https://t.co/y7pkWhoZLF
While #ECT psychiatrists are allowed to hide behind their titles, they are also allowed to inflict brain damage with impunity. If this modern torture was committed by anyone else, there would be an outcry and there would likely be several successful prosecutions. #mentalhealth
#Psychiatrists have the power to lock people up and then harm those people with impunity. Any attempt to solicit sympathy by saying they have a difficult job is an attempt to deflect attention from the #ECT brain damage and prescribed harm they inflict. #mentalhealth#BigPharma
Thousands of women in UK given "dangerous" electric shock treatment for mental health. There are concerns the treatment can cause irreparable brain damage. #ECT#mentalhealth#Psychiatry
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