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cheap canada goose uk Electroshock “treatment” was discovered in the 1930s in a slaughterhouse in Italy. Before being killed, hogs were knocked out by a jolt of electricity to the head and brain. If they weren’t slaughtered, after a while the animals awoke and were able walk around on wobbly legs. Two Italian psychiatrists learned about this phenomenon and immediately tested it on an involuntary patient. The patient wasn’t knocked out by the first jolt and struggled from the table screaming “Murder!” The doctors gave him a bigger jolt. When he awoke, he was docile and no longer complained. A miracle treatment was born and the two psychiatrists became famous. cheap canada goose uk
canada goose clearance Why in the world would medical doctors be so excited about a jolt of electricity that knocked out a hog without killing it? This was the era that originated lobotomy slicing up, burning or poisoning the highest centers of the human brain. It was also the era that originated insulin coma therapy putting patients into a coma with overdoses of insulin that destroyed brain cells in great batches throughout the brain. Doctors were looking for new ways to inflict controlled damage on the patient’s brain Canada Goose sale without completely destroying its function. canada goose clearance
canada goose In those early days, many psychiatrists voiced the opinion that brain damage was good for the “mentally ill.” It certainly made the patients more docile and hence easier to manage in giant state lockups. Only in more recent times, buy canada goose jacket cheap in response to criticism, did shock advocates begin to claim that the treatment was harmless and corrected biochemical imbalances. canada goose
Shock treatment damages the brain through a variety of mechanisms. First, it causes grand mal seizures that are much more intense and destructive than those spontaneously experienced by people with severe epilepsy. These multiple seizures (typically 3 per week for a few weeks or more) exhaust and damage neurons or brain cells. Second, the electric current by itself damages canada goose black friday sale the brain by disrupting electrical function, over heating brain tissue, stimulating canadian goose jacket massive hypertension inside the brain, breaking down the blood brain barrier, and causing tiny blood vessels to spasm shut, depriving neurons of oxygen and nutrients. Commonly, patients undergo several seconds after ECT in which their brain flatlines zero detectable electrical activity a sign of permanent brain death when extended for minutes. Animal studies have shown small hemorrhages and cell death throughout the brain and in the frontal lobes after exposure to doses of ECT that are smaller than nowadays used buy canada goose jacket in clinical practice. Human studies show that former ECT patients suffer from persistent loss of mental function and dementia (see Breggin, 2008; Sackeim et al., 2007).
cheap Canada Goose Shock advocates have proven impervious to science and to public criticism. Like men who beat their wives and abuse their children, shock doctors escalate their violence when criticized. Like other abusers, criticism by itself will not stop them. Shock treatment must be banned. We can begin by banning it on children eighteen and younger, and involuntary adults. cheap Canada Goose
canada goose coats I began writing about this abusive practice exactly thirty years ago when I published the first and only medical book devoted to looking at the damaging effects of this treatment (Breggin, https://www.pick-canadagoose.com 1979). I have written scientific articles on the damaging effects of ECT (Breggin, 1998) and updated the scientific facts in my latest medical book, Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex (2008). canada goose coats
canada goose clearance sale I have not been alone in criticizing the “treatment” as wholly ineffective (Colin, 2006) and as dangerous. One heroic shock survivor, Leonard Frank, spent decades re educating himself and learning to live with long term harmful effects, devoting himself to reform in psychiatry, and even to Canada Goose Outlet writing one of the canada goose clearance sale best scientific critiques of ECT (Frank, 1990). court system. Not long ago, I was the medical expert in a malpractice case that was settled for a very large sum. It involved a canada goose man whose life was ruined by considerably more than 100 treatments (a huge number!) over a two year period. canada goose clearance sale
canada goose store Meanwhile, the shock advocates themselves have published a long term followup of patients treated with electroshock and found massive harm to the brain and mind, including persistent dementia (Sackeim et al., 2007). How have the shock doctor’s responded to the latest confirmation that their treatment destroys the brain and mind? Not a single one has expressed any caution following the publication of the study. As we now see, they have pressed harder to enforce it on children and involuntary adults. canada goose store
Shock treatment has been going since 1938 more than 70 years. Let’s celebrate the passing of its 70th anniversary by putting a stop to it, once and for all.
uk canada goose Baldwin, Steve, and Oxlad, Melissa. Electroshock for minors: A fifty year review. West Port, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. uk canada goose
Breggin, P. (1979). Electroshock: Its brain disabling effects. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
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buy canada goose jacket cheap Breggin, P. (2008). Brain Disabling treatments in psychiatry. New York: Springer canada goose coats on sale Publishing Company. buy canada goose jacket cheap
canada goose factory sale Breggin, P. (1998). Electroshock: Scientific, ethical, and political issues.” International Journal of Risk Safety in Medicine 11, 5 canada goose store 40. (PDF file) canada goose factory sale
Frank, L. (1990). Electroshock: death, brain damage, memory loss, and brain washing. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11, 489 512.
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