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Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed ECT: 460 Volts AND a “Large Evil” Seizure August 16, 2026 – Robert Carter Most people are horrified by the brutality of running more than 400 volts of electricity through a patient’s brain for electroshock “therapy.” Today, of course, it doesn’t look so scary because of the muscle relaxant and the anesthetic used beforehand. But that thermonuclear dose of electricity is only half the story. A patient is savagely zapped by psychiatrists in order to induce a grand mal seizure. Grand mal is French, by the way for “large evil.” Their ludicrous theory is that because the brain of a schizophrenic has fewer glia cells (support cells that keep the nervous system functioning well) than that of an epileptic, by inducing a grand mal seizure, the schizophrenic brain will be “promoted” to produce more glia cells. Are psychiatrists really that illogical, or do they just need that kind of bogus argument to justify their human cruelty? The muscle relaxant and anesthetic are actually given to protect the patient from the violence of the seizure itself, not from the electrical jolt. They prevent the crushed teeth and broken vertebrae that can occur from the violence of that large evil convulsion. The relaxant is the same chemical they give a death row patient just before he is electrocuted, and the anesthetic is given because the severe body paralysis from the relaxant is so painful to someone. Stephen King couldn’t have made up a more extreme form of torture. Every other doctor on the planet besides a psychiatrist is trying to prevent people from having seizures. Why? Because grand mal seizures give patients a greater risk of cognitive impairment, sleep disorders, speech and motor impairment, structural brain damage, cardiovascular disease, bone disease, and psychiatric disorders. Wait a minute! Grand mal seizures increase the risk of psychiatric disorders in patients who already have a psychiatric disorder that has not responded to massive doses of SSRIs and benzodiazepines? Yep. More psychiatric brilliance. Grand mal seizures also give a significant risk factor for sudden unexpected death. But what’s a little sudden unexpected death if the patient’s schizophrenia is cured? There are only a little over one of those deaths for every 1000 people who have grand mal seizures. Not bad odds. Grand mal seizures are now called “tonic-clonic seizures” by the psychiatric industry, an indecipherable term that sounds so much less off-putting than “large evil.” Of course, the more grand mal seizures a person has, the greater the risk for these horrible “side effects.” Most ECT patients get at least ten to twelve shocks for their initial treatment, and many patients are prescribed follow-up maintenance dosage shock sessions every six months to a year. There are also many ECT patients who have been given hundreds of large evil seizures over their life in this horrifically misguided effort to cure their “mental disorder” by increasing their risk of even greater mental disorder. Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed Ladislas Meduna: Daddy of the Great Evil Seizure “Cure” August 8, 2026 – Robert Carter In the early 1930s Hungarian psychiatrist Ladislas Meduna began following up on earlier psychiatric theories of a connection between epilepsy and schizophrenia, the blanket term then for mental disorder. He had observed through autopsies that patients who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia had fewer glia cells than the post-mortem brains of patients who had had epilepsy in life. His bright idea? Let’s induce seizures in patients with schizophrenia in hopes that that would increase the number of their glia cells and thus reduce their schizophrenia. He started off using the pesticide strychnine and the stimulants Coramine and camphor to cause grand mal seizures in the schizophrenic patients he found in a psychiatric hospital just outside of Budapest. Even with those toxic chemicals, though, he could only induce seizures in about a third of his patients. He needed something far stronger, far more savage. He had a second bright idea. He started using intravenous injections of Metrazol, which he discovered that in large doses caused convulsions. After being injected, though, his patients stayed conscious, despite the considerable pain their bodies were in, until they lost consciousness altogether during the seizure. Meduna published reports of a marginal success with his treatment, but he also suggested it was the extreme fear that the patients experienced after the injection and before the seizure that might be the key factor in their “improvement.” In any case, the brutality of the treatment was considered a good trade-off for the marginal effects, regardless of how they had been achieved. In 1938 he emigrated to America and ended up in the much more benign field of psychiatric research into dream-like states of psychosis. By then other psychiatrists had gone about seeking a “better” way to induce a grand mal seizure. The Italian psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti had observed that electroshocking pigs reduced them to apathy so that they could easily be slaughtered, and he had his own bright idea. In 1938 he performed his first electroshock on a human to induce a grand mal seizure and “cure” the man’s schizophrenia. The homeless patient’s face turned purple and a convulsion set in for forty-eight seconds, but he lived through it. Today a million people a year “live through” ECT across the world. We have Signori Cerletti to thank for perfecting this barbarous treatment, which the World Health Organization has labeled torture. However, it was originally Meduna’s now debunked “bright idea” of the connection between schizophrenia and seizures that set psychiatry down a road littered with those patients whose souls have been brutally cancelled, along with their “schizophrenia.” Glia (or glial cells) are non-neuronal cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems. They do not send electrical signals like nerves. Instead, they feed, protect, and support neurons. The word comes from a Greek term meaning” [ 1 , 2 ] Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed More Involuntary ECT Petitions Might Just Mean More ECT July 28, 2026 – Robert Carter Inside Investigator published a news article by Marc E. Fitch this March which showed that in 2024 Connecticut probate court judges approved twice as many petitions to deliver enforced ECT than they had ten years ago. That court ordered ECT was done on patients who were deemed incompetent to voluntarily assent to ECT and who had simply refused ECT treatment. There were only 81 petitions for forced ECT in 2015. In 2024 there were 193 such petitions, mostly from Connecticut’s high population centers where the state-run psychiatric hospitals exist or from New Haven, where Yale’s psychiatric hospital is located. The vast majority of these petitions to deliver involuntary ECT were approved. The reasons for this doubling of ECT court petitions are “varied and subject to debate, according to several experts and advocates,” the article reports. Of course, it could be that more patients are now refusing ECT, given its proven risks and dangers. It could also be that there are more patients who have reached the “last resort” threshold of being treatment resistant after vast cocktails of psychotropic medication has still failed to correct their mental disorders. Or…it could just be that there is that much more ECT being delivered now than ten years ago. The percentage of petitions has not increased. The number of attempted ECT sessions has doubled. It is hard to know for sure, but… Only four states are legally obligated to report any statistics at all on ECT delivery. The accepted figure of 100,000 ECT sessions delivered every year in America is based on old, unreliable information from the 1980s. Consequently, ECT delivery remains cloaked in secrecy today. There are little hints of increased delivery across the board, though. MacLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, for instance, reports that it delivers 10,000 ECT sessions per year. They have administered ECT there since it started as a tentative “new” treatment sixty years ago. Today they give ECT to 50 patients per day. That 10,000 annual ECT sessions figure would make Maclean responsible all by itself for ten percent of the speculative 100,000 ECT session per year statistic for America. That’s highly unlikely. It’s far more likely that ECT delivery has increased exponentially over the last half century and that the 100,000 figure is now grossly minimized. These recent probate court statistics from Connecticut tend to confirm that. Of course, in an industry almost completely shielded from public or governmental scrutiny, it would not be hard to hide that kind of astronomical increase. And no psychiatrist wants to reveal that there is now that much psychiatric torture being performed on American patients, voluntarily or – horrifyingly enough — involuntarily. Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed Psychiatric Savagery with ECT in India July 19, 2026 – Robert Carter     As recently as 2024 the Central Institute of Psychiatry, a 643 bed psychiatric hospital in Ranchi, India, was still delivering unmodified electroshock sessions. That’s the version we see in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest when Jack Nicholson’s body and face savagely contort from the high voltage shock given him without a muscle relaxant or anesthesia.      Unmodified ECT and other horrific psychiatric “treatments” were commonplace in India until 2017. The Mental Health Care Act was then passed to decriminalize attempted suicide, prohibit sterilization of men and women to treat mental illness, ban the seclusion and chaining of patients, and make it illegal to administer ECT without muscle relaxants and anesthesia…all considered the norm before that of good psychiatric care.      As late as February, 2024, however, the Times of India wrote that resident doctors who had worked at the Central Institute of Psychiatry were reporting that the hospital was still delivering unmodified ECT frequently in the seventy electroshock sessions done daily at the hospital. A psychiatric consultant noted that only two anesthesiologists had been hired by the hospital, not nearly enough to accommodate delivering “modified” ECT in their seventy daily ECT sessions.      “There is a slight risk of fractures due to the seizures induced by direct ECTs,” the consultant said, in a gross minimization of the danger. “Moreover, the experience of direct ECT could be very traumatic to the patient, too, as the person is conscious until the seizure starts.”      It certainly “could be.” Watch Jack Nicholson’s face portray the horror he had observed watching unmodified ECT delivered to patients at the Oregon State Hospital so he could play his part realistically.      “There is also the negative public image of direct ECTs,” the psychiatric consultant added.       Ya think?      The Times also reported that some psychiatrists argued that unmodified ECT should be allowed in “resource poor settings” because it is “just as safe and cheaper” than ECT with muscle relaxants and anesthesia. No real concern by these shrinks that was also then illegal in India and is classified as savage human torture by the World Health Organization.       The office of the Central Institute of Psychiatry did not respond to the Times’ queries about their continuing practice of unmodified ECT.      Psychiatrists, of course know best. They think their being “the” authority on mental health supersedes any concern for their patients’ “slight risk” of fractures or “possible” trauma they might receive from this barbaric electronic torture. Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed ECT: the Perfect Tool for Human Mind Control July 6, 2026 – Robert Carter      Psychiatrist Donald Cameron believed that mental illness was a contagious “disease” and that psychiatrists should be put in control of schools, governments, prisons, and hospitals in order to stamp out the viral infection of healthy people by those dangerous, infectious, mentally ill elements in our population. Cameron experimented with brutal methods to try to “correct” schizophrenia by erasing the existing memories of these contagious social misfits and reprogramming their psyches.      Naturally, he therefore became a desirable asset to the CIA for their MKUltra mind control experiments. U.S. Representative Anna Luna called these MKUltra experiments “crimes against humanity” in her opening statement last week as the chairwoman for the new House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.      From 1957 to 1964 Cameron was paid $69,000 by the CIA to carry out his “Montreal Experiments” at McGill University. He used LSD and paralyzing agents such as curare on unwitting subjects as well as massive, continuous electroshocks to “wipe” clean his subjects’ minds. His “psychic driving” procedures put subjects into drug-induced comas for weeks while he played taped loops to them of insignificant noise or, more often, of simple statements. In other words, he forcefully brainwashed people without their consent or knowledge.      ECT was a major tool in his psychic driving arsenal and he shocked his victims with voltage thirty to forty times the normal electrical current of ECT for periods as long as two to five years. In a 1962 research paper he published, he reported using three barbiturates, Veronal, Seconal, and Nembutal as well as chlorpromazine to keep his subjects asleep for up to three weeks except for being woken up three times daily for meals and to use the toilet. Per the report of his 1961 experiments, his unwitting subjects were given follow-up ECT sessions for 22 months to as long as 68 months.      Cameron knew that ECT was not a therapeutic tool. He recognized it instead as a weapon to be used to eradicate a person’s memories and personal psyche so that they could then be reprogrammed in any direction desired from the blank slate that their minds had become. His work was the perfect tool for the CIA to be able to change a person’s loyalties and implant ideas of justified assassination or violence.      At that time psychiatrist Jolly West, also an MKUltra “researcher,” was running a covert clinic in San Francisco reprogramming subjects with similar mind control mechanisms. Charles Manson was the star graduate from that program.      Cameron may not have been familiar with West’s experiments, but he was inspired by British psychiatrist William Sargant, who was also associated with post WWII intelligence services. Sargant was promoting the use of psychosurgery, insulin shock therapy, deep sleep treatment, and especially electroconvulsive therapy for his mind control experiments.      “All sorts of treatment can be given while the patient is kept sleeping,” Sargant wrote, “including a variety of drugs and ECT [which] together generally induce considerable memory loss for the period under narcosis. We may be seeing here a new exciting beginning in psychiatry.”      Cameron was apparently equally enthusiastic in developing this new era of psychiatry with extensive ECT abuse. His “new” psychiatry became the perfect tool for the CIA’s shameful MKUltra human experimentation from 1953 to 1973. Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed Study Says We Need More Female, Afro-American Electroshock Sites June 26, 2026 – Robert Carter      A 2023 National Institute of Mental Health and University of Maryland study of ECT delivery came up with an interesting conclusion. We need more electroshock facilities run by women or by Afro-Americans.      Please, let’s not have such racial bias entering into this most brutal of psychiatric practices. We need make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to zap the living bejeezus out of people. Really. Tsk, tsk to our current electroshock community.      That was their conclusion. Right there in paragraph one, first page of the abstract. “Our results…highlight the need to increase the number of female and Black or Afro American ECT providers.”      Yes, they also recommend establishing a nationwide network of ECT practice sites to facilitate ECT surveys so that the delivery of electroshock services can be more fully tabulated. This study only comprised a survey sample for fifteen percent of extant ECT facilities, and they acknowledged their survey response rate was only two percent.      It’s probably a lot easier to maintain gender and racial discrimination in an industry so rife with secrecy.      Let’s find out more about it, they say – not to see the breadth of human harm being done by ECT’s extreme voltage to the brain – but so that we can make sure it’s politically correct in its employment opportunities. Maybe we should make sure it has its own Equal Opportunity Bureau to monitor it.      How blind must these National Institute of Mental Health and University of Maryland researchers be to have no interest in the long term and short term memory loss, the cardiac difficulties, and the lives ruined by ECT to instead focus on the racial bias in the industry? And approve the taxpayer funding that financed this ludicrous study.       Just goes to show the level of poorly prioritized thinking and disregard of human suffering our National Institute of Mental Health is capable of.      Ain’t no mental health in those government corridors. Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed Shrink Said Lou Reed’s Refrigerator Mother Is Why He Needed ECT June 19, 2026 – Robert Carter      Toby Reed, Lou’s mother, was told by the psychiatrist she and her husband Sidney had innocently sought help from for her son that Lou’s obstinate, counterculture attitude – which the shrink diagnosed as schizophrenia — was caused by her failing to pick up Lou enough as an infant. Instead, she had let him cry himself to sleep in his room. She was to blame.      That accusation became her belief, and per her daughter Merrill was a burden Lou’s mother took to her grave.      Destroying one life was not enough, though. The psychiatrist recommended immediate ECT for the seventeen year old Lou, and in that summer of 1959 he was then given twenty-four high voltage sessions every other day. He was then released to go home.      “I watched my brother as my parents assisted him coming back into our home afterwards, unable to walk, stupor-like,” Merrill has written. “It damaged his short term memory horribly and throughout his life he struggled with memory retention.”      Lou himself later wrote that the shock treatments at the Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital in Queens were debilitating and made him feel like he was “a vegetable.” Those moments were not a perfect day for Lou or for his mother.      The brutality of Lou’s ECT was of comparable magnitude to the brutality of the accusation against his mother. That’s how a psychiatrist was trained to operate and trained to think in the nineteen-fifties, when their diagnosis of a cold “refrigerator mother” was all the rage.      Has that really changed at all since then? One million people are still given ECT every year, and who knows how many mothers’ lives are also still being destroyed.      “You’re going to reap just what you sow” could also well have been Lou’s message to the “two-bit psychiatrists” that he excoriated in his song “Kill Your Sons.” Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed Mini-ECT Devices Said to Correct “Chemical Imbalance” June 12, 2026 – Robert Carter      Where there’s money to be made, psychiatry is sure to follow. ECT sessions bring in at least 2 ½ billion dollars a year in America alone — ten times that globally — while its delivery is obscured by secrecy. Almost no information is reported officially about the frequency of delivery or about the adverse short and long term effects measured by clinical trials.      It’s a dark psychiatric industry with almost no public exposure, but it is profitable. Now a shadow mini-ECT industry of transcranial magnetic  devices is growing which uses external neuromodulation to “reset” neural impulses within the brain to release the “natural chemicals” that control emotion. These devices are being marketed as triggering the serotonin levels in the brain and are therefore based on the “chemical imbalance” theory of mental health which has been totally discredited.      How safe are these devices? We don’t really know. How effective are they? We don’t know that either.      There is almost as much lack of clarity and information from the FDA about these new devices as there is about ECT itself. The FDA says it doesn’t have to rule on ECT because it constitutes the practice of medicine, and that is out of their purview. Protecting the health and safety of the American public should be under their purview, though, shouldn’t it?      That’s the same effectiveness and safety criteria they use to rule on every drug they assess. And we know the FDA has never judged the effectiveness of improving mental health by correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain. They couldn’t, could they, as there is no such thing?      The FDA has not ruled on the effectiveness or safety of these new mini-ECT devices either. Instead they issue their De Novo grant that only authorizes a device to be marketed because the minimal trial “evidence” they have shows no risk of danger. That grant implies nothing about its effectiveness, and in fact the trials that the FDA has looked at involve as few as three hundred participants.      The non-scientific “evidence” of anecdotal reports and lived experience – the two terms used by psychiatry to discredit valid personal experiences – suggest that there are dangers to the use of these mini-ECT devices. The least severe effects are minor headaches during or after use, twitching or spasms in the face, and dizziness or lightheadedness. The more severe, but more rare, effects reported are reduced hearing or tinnitus and mania. As well as seizures – kind of like a lower harmonic of the grand mal seizures that full ECT is designed to trigger.      So, just how dangerous are these devices? Again, we do not know, and we won’t know until the FDA starts doing its job of fully protecting the public from these questionable – but profitable — new “therapies.” Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed Today’s Road to ECT Not Paved with Good Intentions June 6, 2026 – Robert Carter      Writer and psychiatric drug withdrawal advocate Jules Jones tells the horrifying story this week on the Mad in America site of her transfer from innocent cardio patient to recipient of thirty-nine electroshock sessions. It is an increasingly common tale of someone who is incrementally moved from the physical health end of modern medicine to the mental health end because of untrained MDs labeling them incorrectly with a mental disorder they do not actually have.      Thirty years ago Jules had been coping well with the rigors of work and children. She never had one thought that she was “depressed” when she began experiencing heart symptoms that sent her to her MD. He referred her to a cardiologist. Tests were run and Jules was diagnosed with an episodic racing heart that, understandably, might have felt more terrifying than it actually was. She was prescribed a beta blocker to slow the arrhythmia down. It all seemed like simple enough, evidence-based medicine to her.      Then her cardiologist suddenly moved into the murky waters of mental health. She “suggested” Jules might be depressed, might have some psychological cause behind her worry, and should go back and consult with her primary care physician.      Jules did, and there she was told point blank by her general practitioner that she was experiencing depression. It was caused by a chemical imbalance, she was told, and there was a pill that would balance her back out. Jules, innocently enough, accepted the diagnosis.      Twenty years of horrific medical abuse followed: five psychiatric labels, twenty-one psychiatric drugs, thirty-nine rounds of electroshock. A ruined life.      Jules was able to successfully taper off all her psychiatric drugs nine years ago with the help of her wife, who is a naturopath, but there are still periods within those two decades which are not clear in her memory.           What combination of faulty ideas and ill will were these two medical doctors operating on?      What hidden standards did they have in their minds which allowed them to think they knew more about another’s mental health than Jules herself did?      Forty years ago psychiatrists used the lie of “chemical imbalance” to legitimize themselves as “real” doctors who could treat mental “disease” with their Big Pharma promoted drugs.      Since then their bogus theories have so contaminated regular medicine that we now have general practitioners and physical medicine specialists who also presume to know more about their patients’ psyches than their patients themselves.      It’s a circle no one in their right mind would ever have wanted completed. Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

Ban Electroshock Therapy ECT: Brutality Prescribed One Hollywood Shrink. A Bit of ECT. Two Dead Celebrities May 29, 2026 – Robert Carter Psychiatrist Ralph Greenson came to fame as a shrink to the stars during the popular trend of the 1950s of getting Freudian psychoanalysis, but he branched out into psychotropic drugs, electroshock therapy, and questionable session practices. In 1953 Vivien Leigh suffered from exhaustion and a mental “breakdown” while filming Elephant Walk on location in what is now Sri Lanka. Paramount Pictures was forced to dismiss her, but they did bring in two prominent Hollywood psychiatrists to advise on her treatment. One, Martin Grotjann, recommended complete rest. The other, Ralph Greenson, recommended electroshock therapy for a “quick fix.” Greenson won. She ended up in an institution, packed in ice, fed raw eggs, and given ECT. That was not the end of her ECT, though. Once later, in Warsaw, she had to perform with the ECT burn marks still on her forehead. When her headaches from ECT became too severe, she was put on psychotropic drugs. When she died in 1967, it was discovered she may have been misdiagnosed for years because of her mental symptoms may have come from from her chronic TB. Marilyn Monroe, Greeson’s other famous female client, had barely escaped getting electroshock therapy in 1961. Her ex-husband Joe DiMaggio managed to pull her out of a locked, padded cell at the Payne Whitney psych ward, infamous for its ECT use. She had already been a client of Greeson’s before that, and she continued to see him when she returned to California afterward and up until her suicide the next year. She had as many as five private sessions a week with Greeson and it was Greeson who was called to her house and broke open her bedroom door to find her dead. She had apparently overdosed from the sedatives chloral hydrate and pentobarbital, presumably both prescribed by Greenson. It doesn’t take Agatha Christie to figure out that psychiatrist Greeson is a prime suspect in these two celebrity deaths. Did he pull a trigger? No. Did he push for Vivien Leigh’s electroshock? Yes. Did he write Marilyn Monroe’s prescriptions? Yes. He was, after all, a psychiatrist. Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil