This clip is an interesting explanation of why psychiatrists have apparently been unaware for 70 years that ECT can and does cause profound memory loss and cognitive damage. The reason? Because until a few years ago, the only persons who complained of severe memory loss also said it didn't help them. It took finding some patients who experienced devastating memory loss who would also proclaim it "saved their life" before Harold Sackeim would listen.
Hey, I'm not the one who said it...Harold is. He's the champion of the shock patient, at least in his own head. Maybe he needs to revisit the early years of Sackeimology, when his research revolved around self deception, the lies we tell ourselves.
Harold (call him doctor, damn you!) relates an interesting story, if true. He's been known to make up statistics and a vignette or two. And he questioned whether or not the individuals on ect.org were really ECT patients. That's called projection, Harold. Or deflection. You should have learned these terms when you studied Sackeimology.
The story takes place at an ECT donut course. (Shock docs and donuts are like cops and donuts.) One of the "very famous people" (that could really only be Abrams, Fink or Kellner, probably the Finkster) announced that profound memory loss just doesn't happen. But our hero Harold asked the audience - all shock docs - if they'd encountered it. Two-thirds raised their hands. Oops. 70 years of denial down the drain.
It was almost a watershed moment, he says. The only thing missing was the heavens opening and the Angel Gabriel trumpeting the good news: Harold Sackeim is GOD, everyone. He's your savior.
yes it took him 25 years to even see that there were "possible" negative side effects. Those of us who complained and those scared to say anything because of the threats of even further ECT treatments were never interviewed or consulted. I had more than 50 series given to me before my tenth birthday. Two IQ testings given prior to my 'treatments' indicated potential intellegence so high as to be unchartable (above 200.) Test given after the series show results of 140 to 150.
DawnStorrud 1 year ago
ECT is electroconvulsive therapy. Shock treatment to assist with overcoming major depression, should really be used as a last resort when other therapeutic options do not work (i.e. pharmacological treatment) for the patient but the pro-ECT scientists and medical activists have endorsed ECT as having no side effects. Evidence suggests otherwise but controversial topic.
GazariahZoot 2 years ago
Hey, i dont want to sound stupid but what is ECT?
miix999 3 years ago