Patient

Former patient at the Royal Cornhill Hospital, where I was given Electro Convulsive Therapy illegally with no warning or consent. Read my story on my website

[Patient @ectatcornhill]

I now know that Dr Hannah Badial arranged for me to have ECT without telling me, that Dr David Rooke gave a second opinion without meeting me, that 3 of the 4 sessions under Dr Leah Drever were done without legal authority

[Stuart W Bowen Jr @stuartwbowenjr]

@Psychiatry_Anti The widespread advent of antidepressants 40 years ago began a highly funded mass marketed poisoning of the miserable that usually only ultimately aggravated their misery. Only now is this red tide receding. But so much harm has occurred. It must be stopped.

[Nicole Corrado @NicoleCorrado1]

Dear @Mad_In_America please inform the public that it’s not only the dangers from “long-term use” of psychiatric drugs but ANY use of psychiatric drugs, even ONE dosage or rapidly increased doses in short time span such as with heavy 1st & 2d generation antipsychotic drugs Zyprexa/Olanzapine, Clozapine, Haldol, etc., are immensely harmful, brain damaging, hideously debilitating, some more dangerous compared to illegal street drugs, total health damaging, life destroying …as in Russian Roulette analogy—it takes just ONE trigger pull for that single bullet to KILL💥

[Rob Wipond @robwipond]

C.Dubey: "being forced to have ECT was not a positive experience at all. It was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life...I felt deceived, violated, and abused." (It's terrible some people try to dismiss this by saying "but some people benefit.") https://t.co/aiFflqjwp3

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

Psychiatric euphemism 4: ECT is very effective and memory problems are transient. The truth is that ECT is ineffective, which is why it is repeated many times; it kills somme patients; and memory loss is very common and may be permanent https://t.co/IXm776yP2H @brokenmedics

[JD @jill_d35]

It has indeed been a huge problem. There are no excuses for this, none. Lying to patients about the safety of ECT is appalling negligence. And "sorry" really doesn't cut it.

[Travel Foreigners @TraverseFore]

@tillytog01 @Jill48354596949 @ReadReadj The status quo is to select for anything that benefits continuation or even increase of use of ECT -which is often given coercively to those who medication didn’t help
There are no alternatives provided
And no way for people who don’t want treatment with meds/ECT to refuse it

[Pastor Timmy: Sole Proprietor/KindHeart Media LLC @Tim_Van_Hoesen]

@TraverseFore @shvogt @benzosarebad @GeorgeKirov1 @RichardBentall @QuantPsychiatry @ReadReadj @PsychRecovery @LisaTMSA @MITUKteam @Mad_In_America @PGtzsche1 @peterkinderman It didn’t help me in anyway. There are major risks associated with it and it took me a long time to recover my memory.

[TheMythofMentalIllness @Greedyshrinks]

@GeorgeKirov1 @ReadReadj @RichardBentall Breggin disagrees. I have had ECT and I disagree. Life has been much, much less rich since ECT. I attempted suicide immediately after having it. 8 years to get back to work. It took me 30 years to be able to realise how bad. My voice, and others like mine, are ignored. Why?

[Kelly Martin @KellyMartin02]

@ReadReadj @RichardBentall Hilarious. He wouldn’t “consider” such trials bc they’d clearly show the brain dmg, cog dmg, trauma, loss of skill sets, +identity ECT trauma causes. If proper tests were done, (not MMSE lobotomized pts can pass), The Janis tests +specific neuro tests would reveal the harms.

[Dr. Anna MD “In My Opinion” @drannamedical]

@ReadReadj @PsychRecovery @Mad_In_America @MITUKteam @LisaTMSA @Chris_E_Harrop @lifeafterect @RichardBentall @VanIslandHealth @Josie_Osborne electroconvulsive “therapy” a favourite at RJH on poly drugged patients with no informed consent @WHOWPRO @WHO

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Will the small and dwindling minority of psychiatrists still using shock therapy PLEASE listen to Sarah @PsychRecovery and read what Max Fink, the most famous ECT enthusiast of all time wrote. @Mad_In_America @MITUKteam @LisaTMSA @Chris_E_Harrop @lifeafterect @RichardBentall

[Hanna_PSSD @hanna_pssd]

@AllenFrancesMD ” According to one CIA document, Fink told officials “an individual could gradually be reduced through the use to electroshock treatment to the vegetable level.”

https://t.co/pSgxAdUOgo

#ECT

[JD @jill_d35]

@PsychRecovery @hanna_pssd In 2003 NICE issued guidelines for ECT which stated that testing for cognitive impairment was inadequate, and that appropriate testing should be devised and introduced, before, during and after a course of ECT. This has been completely ignored and here we are 20 years later.

[fireworks and confetti @fworksconfetti]

"Treatment-resistant depression" is just a euphemism for "our drugs at best are rubbish and at worst actively harm you, which we'll then 'augment' with further drugs, and ECT, until you're far, far worse than when you started."

I really don't see this in other fields: eg, when a loved one of mine's cancer treatment failed, that's what he was told: *the treatment failed*. But "treatment-resistant depression" locates the problem in the patient and compounds any sense of hopelessness they likely already have.

Also, see this thread about young people and mental health:

https://t.co/IjvRY8WSIL

[Disa Sacks @SacksDisa]

@ReadReadj Psych world has not done the requisite well designed RCTs with long term f/up to show safety&efficacy
The machines have never been through FDAapproval
Thousands of ppl are suffering the severe perm amnesia & cognitive impairment and are demanding this dangerous scam be banned

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

The demise of ECT is inevitable regardless of my position on it. I call for an immediate suspension pending the sort of research expected of all other medical interventions, eg several large, independent (not ECT advocates) , placebo-controlled studies, including cognitive tests

[DR AWESOME (formerly known as LD) @Notshockednomo]

Like any allopathic suppression of symptoms,there r many effects of ECT. Amnesia is 1 & is awful. Depression is temporarily masked(in a % of patients)by the symptom of euphoria commonly associated with any significant trauma to the brain organ. There is no cure of depression here

[Monica @InsularEntropy]

@jill_d35 I wasn’t insinuating that you were attacking people. I’m sorry.

ECT is never safe.

I wish he would realize that it is never safe.

As someone who trained in EE, I know it’s never safe.

It’s a TBI each time someone receives it.

It’s frustrating that people don’t realists this

[L @Riggwelter_PSSD]

Its almost two years since I took Mirtazapine. I wish I'd been offered an alternative to drug treatment. In hindsight, all I needed was a better diet, better emotional support and more exercise and I would have been fine. My problems were situational and could have been resolved without drugs.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Public Service Announcement:
SSRI’s are a scam. There is no antidepressant drug. The corruption runs deep.
Happy Election Day!