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IMPORTANT
FACTS
1. Studies show
that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) creates irreversible brain damage,
permanent memory loss and may result in death. Up to 300 patients die
each year from ECT in the U.S.
2. In 2003, the
U.S. Medicare health insurance program stopped coverage of �multiple seizure�
electroshock treatment, after an investigation revealed the practice is
unworkable and places patients at severe risk.
3. Many medical
studies reveal that psychiatric drugs create violence. The newer neuroleptic
(antipsychotic) drugs cause severe debilitating and potentially deadly
effects.
4. These drugs,
once touted as �wonder pills�, cause blindness, fatal blood clots, heart
arrhythmia (irregularity), swollen and leaking breasts, impotence and
sexual dysfunction, blood disorders, seizures, birth defects, extreme
inner-anxiety and diabetes.
CHAPTER
FOUR Psychiatry�s Destructive �Treatments�
When governments
and courts are lobbied to strengthen involuntary commitment and community
treatment laws, and to establish �mental health courts� to promote treatment
rather than punishment, they are never told of the lack of scientific
basis for psychiatric methods, of the consequences of those treatments
for the patient or of the lack of accountability for those treatment outcomes.
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