Patient pleads: please stop my shock treatment

A Dunedin woman who is being given electric shock treatment in a psychiatric hospital has made a public plea for her doctors to stop.

Julie Simmonds is a committed patient under the Mental Health Act, and all decisions about her treatment are in the hands of clinicians.

However, she told 3 News she did not want shock treatment, but was being forced to have it.

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[ClarkieDude]

I had 12 electric convulsive therapy treatments back in 1996 for depression. Most of my long-term memory is gone, as well as my ability to remember most anything from a short-term perspective. It has certainly impaired my creative process. ECT treatment is barbaric and must be stoppped.

[UKSecretCourts]

She seems clear about what she wants.

She doesn't want ECT.

Not well enough to give consent indeed, talk about smoke and mirrors from the clinic.

[Bigshotism]

I was involuntarily committed back in the mid 1990's and a psychiatrist tried to forcibly administer ECT. They had a judicial hearing and I fought it all the way. Some how I emerged victorious and the psychiatrist claimed I only undermined my recovery. At least I have still have most of my memory. The depressive symptoms wax and wane, but memory loss is permanent. It's pathetic how these doctors violate the ethical principles they swore to uphold - so much for the therapeutic relationship

[Lisaannjoel]

@messianic2010

Except there is electroshock going on in a school in America. Look up Judge Rotenberg center. Some of these children have mild problems, some have more severe, some have adhd, some have autism. They get no privacy, have to wear electro shock backpacks with the bands on their bodies.

Some get shocked for just merely sneezing. Some deaths and reports of rape. This school is still open.

[wepul]

Please sign this ‘Abolish ECT’ e-petition and relegate it to history books like lobotomy. UK citizens or residents only

://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/pe­titions/16278

[grettagrids]

they give me ECT I will SUE! I have a neurostimulator I need for my bladder to work. that would destroy it!

[s4097614]

I find it funny that ECT is seen as deplorable but cutting someone top to tail is seen as ok. Both are done under anesthesia and ECT has 80% efficacy in the treatment of severe MDD. Psychiatry like the rest of the medical profession is ruled by evidence based medicine. Evidence is obtained through the highest levels of study and analysis and are subject to unbiased ethics review.

[drumheadcircle]

Damn Royal Reptoides! Her husband too. If she's not "well enough", to be granted a divorce .. I'de tell her to head for Vancouver, where the street people will treat her better than these lizards.(she'll get better meds too) People LOOK UP the Animal Testing...to see a fried kitten jerkin' and stumbling, UTTER HORROR

[drumheadcircle]

Damn Royal Reptoides! Her husband too. If she's not "well enough", to be granted one... I'de tell her to head for Vancouver, where the street people will treat her better than these lizards.(she'll get better meds too)

[drumheadcircle]

Damn Royal Reptoides!