Electroshock Therapy for Mom (or you in later years)?

ECT is often used for treating depression and lately even for improving manageability of nursing home residents. Apparently physical or chemical restraints are not sufficient so they turn to abuse/trauma.

• ECT  may happen to you when you are older, perhaps with mild dementia, or unable to give informed consent. 

Like Watergate, the key to understanding ECT use is to follow the $, its a big bucks phenomenon. 


Some say "ECT is OK for a very small subset of people with depression, but when used appropriately it can save lives".

• Those who say this are not able to discern the difference between placebo and harmful treatment. 

The only benefit from ECT derives from the placebo effect. The medical world can easily prove this by arranging a series of treatments where the only change is to unplug the device that administers shock.


ECT is always inappropriate treatment: the mind is not in the brain/body, its much larger than the body. 

• Its impossible to benefit the mind by abusing the body. 

ECT is a scam, a massive but sanctioned charade. 

• Every ECT treatment induces undiagnosed PTSD (see also link at sidebar), usually also untreated.

I continue to explore this topic (checking for correspondence of side effects with Frontotemporal Dementias).



A broad recent view of ECT is in the Rutgers University Press book Doctors of Deception by Linda Andre, 2009.