I believe ECT to be a very modern horror story. Psychiatrists who use ECT try to play down its use by saying that it is a last-resort treatment; that it is only used when other treatments have failed. In the UK, it is now very often the first treatment used and its use is not limited to severe depression. It is now used to treat post-natal depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome, eating disorders, bereavement and a variety of other symptoms.

Psychiatrists would have you believe that ECT consists of sending a small electri

The aim of ECT is to produce a massive convulsion in the brain (a massive epileptic seizure). For some reason, psychiatrists seem to think that causing an epileptic fit will relieve depression even though nobody has ever demonstrated a link between the two problems. If you could cure depression by having epileptic fits then people suffering from epilepsy would never suffer from depression; but they do.

ECT is being banned, or severely restricted, in some countries but its use in Britain, America and Canada, the Countries that put economics first appears to be on the increase. ECT is performed on at least 20,000 patients annually in the UK, and estimates for the USA vary from 170,000 to 300,000 annually.(Barton). It is forced on at least 10% of these patients. Male psychiatrists are more likely than females to prescribe ECT, and they are more likely to prescribe it to female patients. It i

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