Suicide and Death Rates Skyrocket for ECT Victims

     Less than one percent of the general population commits suicide. Fourteen percent of all ECT patients commit suicide.

     The institutions and psychiatrists who perform ECT do not keep much in the way of records, or if they do, they are for the most part not published. No one wants to expose their own sins.

     Instead, they call ECT “help.”

     One 2011 British study tracked suicides among psychiatric patients and found that nearly half of those treated with ECT died by suicide within three months of their discharge.

    A 2007 Danish study of all inpatient deaths at a psychiatric hospital over a twenty-five year period found that ECT patents had a twenty percent higher risk of death by suicide.

     The mortality rate of those who have received ECT is also much higher than the general population. One study shows one death for every ninety-one ECT treatments…and that’s when the patient dies during the procedure itself, not afterward, because of suicide or complications.

     Your risk of dying from an ECT procedure is greater if you are elderly. A Kroessler and Fogel study spanning twelve years of ECT research from 1974-1986 showed that one of every four elderly patients died from an ECT treatment.

Another 2010 survey showed that ECT deaths were actually ten to a hundred times more common than what the American Psychiatric Association had been reporting.

     Not only were psychiatrists not exposing their sins, they were lying about them.

     (This article is an excerpt from our free downloadable broadsheet Shock Therapy).