ECT - Electroshock Therapy - Diana Loper Part 1

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
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Original Footage by Mary Marvel
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[manny2fs]

no one can speak of anything unless they themselves are going throught the scenario or they Live with one who suffers.

[eeyoreofborg]

Her phsychiatrist was a quack. How did she get this far into ECT if she was so opposed to it?

[telemundo]

Postpartum Depression and the baby blues are NOT the same. This dude is a joke.



[roxyb03]

@roxyb03 (con't) Some people do seem to fully recover after a short round of treatments, but the so called "maintenance" treatments that are given when the recovery is insufficient or can't be maintained w/o more treatments are ridiculous.

[roxyb03]

@koochy79 The fact that u have had 38 treatments & still need more speaks for itself. I stupidly allowed a Dr. to talk me into having 25 treatments that left me w/ not just "temporary short term" memory loss but permanent short & long term mem loss & personality changes(all after modern ECT (w/anesthesia). The only reason ECT 1st seemed to be helping me was that after ea. treatment I would forget that I had been depressed, but it always came back .If a few treatmts don't work it's time to quit

[sriwai1]

@koochy79 "i have had 38 ECT treatments and i am just fine" hahaha sounds like somebody who needs this stupid treatment to get through lifes problems is far from FINE , depression i can understand and i am sympathetic when it comes to depression as my mother suffered for quite sometime with it because of a terrible event in her life , so she went to a psyciatrist and spoke about her problems and she is fine now , this "therapy" is unnecessary just watch doctors opinions of it on youtube

[koochy79]

I have had 38 ECT treatments and I am just FINE! I continue to have continuation ECT and it is the only thing that works for me. This wackjob here posting this video had ECT back in the days when it was FORCED on people, the shock was much bigger (disabling) and not controlled. Also, you were not given anesthesia and it was utterly horrifying. I am certainly sorry they had to go through this, but they have NO RIGHT to try and ban it for people who WANT and NEED the treatment to survive.

[mbono81]

I have had 12 E.C.T. sessions. Its quite simply the greatest thing ever.

[brahud]

Memory loss apparently has its advantages... ECT causes that. Thinking..... based on memorical thoughts might lead to maladaptive stuff..... So get rid of the memory and you can start from scratch (theoretically).

[cbohar84]

SUE! SUE! SUE EVERYBODY!

[angelamariapreuss]

@4windedLARK Sorry, it has taken me a while to get back to you. Are you feeling any better? I hope you are and I hope the lord blesses you with recover of good memories. I know that to you your experiences are real and very freighting. So I will pray that your heart is moved to the silence of peace that only Jesus can give. May God Bless You.