ECT - Electroshock Therapy - Diana Loper Part 2

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. If I had been allowed to go ahead and play this out and let it go through its natural course, I probably would have been alright. But young, new husband, new baby, away from home, you go to these people you supposedly trust. My husband signed for the treatments believing that this was going to do some good. God only knows how he thought that but that's what he thought. And so, I was shocked against my will. I was straitjacketed and forcibly shocked. "What happens with ECT is they give you a certain drug that puts you to sleep. Then, when you wake up, your grief is supposedly over. After this procedure had been given to me, I woke up in a room by myself and didn't know where I was or who I was because what this procedure does is it puts you on a euphoric high, a brain-damage high. They might as well just take a sledge hammer and knock you in the head with it because after a head injury you walk around like, what's going on? The world is wonderful. The world is fine. It will put you on this high. . . But six months after shock~, after your brain-damage high is over, you're suicidal. I did not go into the hospital because I was suicidal. After they got through shocking me, I was. "After the insurance money runs out, they will put you on the street. Well, they put me on the street. I had no way of starting life because they did no follow-up. . . "

The Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas
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Visit Dr. Breedings website.
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More information on ECT
http://www.ect.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/ectorg

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[Jennstan135]

I had ECT from the age of 5 to 16 and I am now 21. I was diagnosed with severe depression and anger at the age of 5. Can you imagine being 5 and being tied down? I hurt afterwards and I actually broke my wrist. Even with all the medication. ECT is horrible.

[psychetruth]

It's actually been allowed in Texas for people under age 16 now.

I looked at some of your videos. You are a very good artist.

If you are comfortable doing so, I would love to see a video you made talking about your ECT experience.

[bradley1107]

what are you some sort of scientologist? This is a pseudo-religion...But check it out, mentall illness does exist, how do you explain my case of OCD?? schizophrenia!? if thats not a mental illness then what is it??

The story here is obviously tragic but in no way can you draw the conclusion that mental illness is not real and that psychiatry has no place in our world.

[Chopinsnocturnes]

All she knows how to do is whine and bitch to get her minutes of fame. She was on the Gordon Elliott show in the 90's. I still think she needs major meds or ECT.

[Chopinsnocturnes]

I don't think she's over her depression. I think she needs more ECT.

[SUNDAYSCHOOLTEACHER]

"For richer for poorer, for better for worse, in sickness and in health, till death do us part". I think the husband needed shock treatment to remember the vows he made only 5 years previous to the illness in the presence of no doubt "many witnesses". Very sad.

[roxyb03]

@TheHacklberry I had a similar experience following ECT , some memories are still very clear but others were lost. I can't explain this ,but then again psychiatrists can't explain exactly how ECT (or antidepressants) work either. There is way too much that is still unknown about the brain. Psychiatry can and should be better than it is at this point in time.

[brahud]

Ha, ha... capitalism... if they can market it to anyone and make some money from it. We have the power to create our reality without erasing bad stuff through electroconvulsive therapy. She is contaminated by religion and her thoughts and behaviors are based on "crap". So she is messed up from the beginning.

[MarielAnna2322]

In 2000 I had my shock treatment and it saved my life..it saved me from my incessant inability to control my self hatred ..and desire to die..I may have lost some of my memory ..but its been 10 years with only 1 suicide attempt …and I don't have to be drugged up for the rest of my life.

[MarielAnna2322]

jjjjj

[mari777here]

ECT killed my father at age 33

[yellowwitch1]

at least they told you what they were going to do, I was in a hospital once and they lied about the treatment, put me in the bed, when they were putting the electrodes, I went wild, shouted and ran out of there!! Psychiatric staff should be put in jail! I was not even depressed neither.