Posted by LostBoyinNC1 on July 29, 2002, at 17:55:38
In reply to Re: Has ECT become the treatment for the wealthy?, posted by Compucat on July 29, 2002, at 13:50:41
Thank your local ECT activists, who are a small but loud minority, for making ECT harder and harder to obtain. The cult of scientology is behind much of it, but also some of these "psychiatric survivors" groups are behind a lot of it. Most of these folks refuse to believe anything is wrong with them, despite the fact they live marginal lives and hallucinate, hear things and cant think straight. Many of them draw SS disability because they wont get treated. Because they are politically organized now and vocal, we the sufferers of mental illness who would like to get better have it even harder.
Recently Max Fink's ECT website was taken down. It was very informative about ECT. It was one of the few good ECT websites around. I agree Max Fink is not an angel by any means and probably did some distasteful things to patients in the fifties and sixties before psychiatry reform, but the guy knows what he is talking about when it comes to ECT and severe mental illness. He is an expert in catatonia as well.
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