ECT Device Manufacturer Admits Electroshock Therapy Can Cause Brain Damage in Now Delteted Regulatory Update

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Update: March 4th 2025

The regulatory update is no longer on the Somatics website, but you can download it here (link below). It was taken down from the website sometime between February 24 and March 29, 2024.

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ECT Device Manufacturer Admits Electroshock Therapy Can Cause Brain Damage

ECT Device Manufacturer Somatics, LLC, acknowledged lasting damage caused by electroconvulsive therapy in a regulatory update following the groundbreaking 2018 lawsuit, Riera v. Somatics, LLC.

Not long after the update was published access disappeared from the Somatics download page.

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Anna is a childhood psychiatric drug and a teenage electroshock survivor. She founded Life After ECT to ensure people injured by electroconvulsive therapy have easy access to resources that can help them understand their injuries and find a path to recovery.