Prisoners in Brazil in the 1970s said that various body parts were given electroshock (Chavin 1). In the same article by Chavin, he says, "In El Salvador, doctors used drugs to disorient their victims before using the stand-by of all medical torture, electroshock machines" (1). There is a great deal of pain associated with this treatment, patients are put under general anesthesia but will have head aches and other side effects for days and months. .
According to Cauchon, "The death rate for elderly patients who receive shock is 50 times higher than patients are told on the American Psychiatric Association's [APA] model consent form". The same study states, " The APA sets the chances of dying at 1 in 10,000. But the death rate is closer to 1 in 200 among the elderly, according to mortality studies done over the past 20 years and death reports from Texas, the only state that keeps close track" (Cauchon 1). This kind of information is hard to find due to the fact that 49 states don't keep good records for these cases. .
I bring you the story of Ocie Shirk a 72 year old woman from Austin, Texas. During a routine ECT session, she had an epileptic style seizure, which is the goal in the therapy as described above. Then, she had a heart attack while in the recovery room. Four days later she died of heart failure, the main cause of shock induced deaths (Cauchon 3). That's the story of just one woman who died after enough electricity to power a light bulb went coursing through her body. Many people do not die during the treatment; rather, they die due to the stress put on the body by the electricity. There are many more people who have died as a result of ECT then the public will ever know. Furthermore, a 1993 study of elderly patients showed that 27% of shock patients died within one year of treatment compared to 4% who were treated with anti-depressant drugs. In two years the number rose to 46% with shock treatment and 10% with drugs (Cauchon 2).
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