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 treatm...
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. . . "
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In addition to the comment below, IT IS TRUE THAT SCIENTITS DON'T KNOW HOW THE ECT WORKS. On top of that, according to the report from study in Duke University in 2008, "a significant number of patient erroneously believed that their memory had improved". But they had significantly lower recognition after the ECT. Check it out on wikipedia.
Ok, I will write some responce to the questions on this text comment lines. First, what he is saying about electroshock therapy is based on "scientific stutistics" and there is no false information on this video. Check it out on Wikipedia. By the way ECT WORKS BY LOSING MEMORY OF PATIENTS. So it might be good for people who is going to suicide(because he or she will lose some types memory after ECT). But they will have lower recognition. I'm majoring psychology by the way.
I'm not well informed enough on psychological questions but as I've said elsewhere, it's very hard to really understand how another person feels-- most of the time in normal life you're just projecting. I can understand why a psychiatrist might turn to an anathematized and "extreme" religion for insights into the completely crazy business of thinking like someone else. Particularly someone in an extreme state of mind. If he's really a scientologist.
I can imagine he goes into it precisely to understand what it means to feel spiritually oppressed, in the sense that it's a dogmatic religion, and to find some way within that spiritual opression to come to terms with it. Which might help in treating some schizophrenics for one thing.
I said that because he bases his speech on false informations. If he supports $cientology he believes that Ron Hubbard was a "good" man and a scientist. But Ron H. was the guru of a sect which hates psychiatry and spread false informations.
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