Psych Observer - Exposing Bad Psychiatrists

by Lorna Benson, Minnesota Public Radio
December 15, 2008

A Minnesota man undergoing electro-convulsive therapy goes before a judge in St. Paul on Tuesday to try to stop the court-ordered procedure. Ray Sandford says he’s losing his memory after having more than 30 treatments so far. His doctors have argued that the procedure is necessary to treat Sandford’s psychotic episodes. Minnesota, like many other states, does not track the number of forced ECTs.

St. Paul, Minn. — Ray Sandford has been getting electro-convulsive treatment, also known as electroshock and ECT, since the end of May. For Ray, the process works like this. Every week or two he is taken to a hospital, where a medical technician attaches electrodes to his head and delivers electrical current into his brain. The current causes a seizure.

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What would you do if your child was mentally screened at school and diagnosed with mental disorders without your permission? That happened to this mother, Teresa Rhoades

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Another great video from SFJane. I was delayed from having to post this video sooner because I was taking a long break from Youtube.  Please accept my apologies.

Link of interest Are you an online/Blackberry junkie? You might be mentally ill!

Psychiatry wants to add internet addiction to the DSM and make it an official mental disorder. They want to add chatting, sexy girls and video games as types of addiction.

What is Electroshock therapy?

URL: http://ottawastart.com/story/7716.php

The International Campaign to Ban Electroshock (ICBE) is holding a peaceful protest against the use of electroshock on Sunday, May 11th from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Parliament Hill meeting at the Centennial Flame

Electroshock Protest in Ottawa on Sunday, May 11th, on Parliament Hill from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m - meeting at the Centennial Flame

Contact Person: Sue 613-721-1833

“Stop Shocking our Mothers and Grandmothers”

The International Campaign to Ban Electroshock (ICBE) is organizing a peaceful protest against the use of electroshock in Canada and is asking all governments in Canada to put a moratorium on the use of electroshock.

Electroshock is also known as ECT, shock therapy, shock, and electroconvulsive therapy. 60% of ECT is given to women over 60 years of age.

ECT has been proven to cause brain damage 100% of the time. See www.breggin.com for more info.

The American Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Psychiatric Association say ECT is safe and so are the ECT machines, that is not true at all.

The ICBE deems ECT to be barbaric, unethical, inhumane, and an atrocity.

130 hospitals in Canada give ECT. Most of the local hospitals in Ottawa give ECT.

Political prisoners are given ECT as a form of torture.

Sue Clark-Wittenberg, the director of the ICBE was forcibly given ECT in 1973 at the age of l7 years old. As a result of having had ECT, Sue suffers from permanent memory loss and has difficulty learning new things. Sue says “no one should have to go through what I did. ECT is a crime against humanity” Sue’s mother Theresa also had ECT.

The ICBE website URL is: icbe.wordpress.com

The ICBE email address is: icbe2008@gmail.com

The statistics for ECT given yearly are:

Ontario - 14,000 ECTs given yearly

British Columbia - 46,000 ECTs given in the past 5 years

UK - 50,000 ECTs given yearly

USA- 100,000 Americans get ECT yearly.

Worldwide - 1 to 2 million people get ECT yearly

Websites with info on ECT:

www.breggin.com, www.ect.org, http://endofshock.com, www.banshock.org, http://capa.oise.utoronto.ca, http://capacanada.wordpress.com, icbe.wordpress.com

Please come out and support our worthy cause on May 11th.

20 million children are currently taking psychiatric drugs documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause heart attacks, strokes, mania, violence, psychosis, sudden death and suicide.
Families who were never warned of the risks and suffered tremendous loss are fighting back to help save other children’s lives.

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Did you know that most school shootings and acts of mass violence are committed by people on antidepressants who showed no signs of violence before being medicated?

The number of actual suicide attempts at least doubles for children taking an antidepressant drug, according to short term studies, yet antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed drugs in the US.

Ritalin is the most commonly prescribed drug by psychiatrists for children, yet it’s more potent to the brain than cocaine.

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Eli Lilly’s profits has increased on higher sales on it’s treatments for diabetes, cancer and depression. Are we not surprise at the results? After all Eli Lilly does sell an Anti psychotic medication Zyprexa thats linked to Diabetes and Hyperglycemia according to the The Food and Drug Administration.

I’ve encountered an interesting video that discusses the Eli Lilly’s drug, Zyprexa by a formal Zyprexa sales representative

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Diana Loper. “It only takes a minute to destroy a brain. At 24, Diana Loper was given electroshock for post-partum depression and an inability to sleep after the birth of her child. After 24 treatments, she was released in a far worse condition, and could no longer care for herself or her family . As a result, her husband divorced her and her child was taken away by the courts. This is her story: “My story is many stories. There are thousands. Over a hundred thousand persons per year receive ECT I don’t even like to use the term therapy–this is only a procedure.

“I had a premature child, post-partum depression, and sleep deprivation. The post-partum depression is, of course, what we call the baby blues, and the sleep deprivation was from having a very sick child. I was married to a preacher and we decided to go to a psychiatrist to talk about what was going on with me. This psychiatrist decided that I needed shock treatments. “I didn’t go for everything they said but my husband did. The psychiatrist told my husband, ‘Well, you know, she’s very depressed, and all we have to do is put her to sleep.

There will be a little bit of a jolt through her body, and she’ll have a little convulsion. It will be like going to sleep. And then she’ll wake up the next day and everything will be fine. She’ll be happy again. She won’t be depressed. ‘I remember looking at that psychiatrist and saying, ‘Let’s get real here. What are you going to do to me? Are you going to wipe out all the bad that ever happened to me. . . ?’ My husband then said, ‘Now, honey, listen to me. You cry all the time. Let’s try this procedure. It won’t hurt. It will only take a minute.’ “So, they gave me 24 shock treatments for my post-partum depression and sleep deprivation.

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