All posts tagged with ECT

(Natural News) It sounds like something out of a horror movie: Electrode pads are placed on your head, you’re injected with anesthesia and a muscle relaxant and strapped to a bed, and a doctor pushes a button that causes electric current to pass through your brain, giving you a seizure. Some time later, you’ll wake […]

(Natural News) Some people think that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is one of those horrible treatments from yesteryear that civilized societies no longer undertake. However, approximately one million people around the world are given electroshock every year, including 100,000 Americans. Perhaps most disturbingly, some of the people who undergo this terrifying and […]