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Should ECT be suspended? Experts weigh in.

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A recent article in Medscape highlights experts calling for a suspension of ECT until research can demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the risks.

Experts Call for Immediate Suspension of ECT, Others Push Back

This article highlights our international patient safety petition which now has more than 10 thousand signatures.

4,000 people signed in the last 2 weeks after my article “Whose Finger is Taking the Pulse of America’s Shock Treatment Controversy?” appeared in Mad in America.

90% of the people who view our petition, sign it. 10% share it!

Please help us help others injured by this unregulated medical treatment!

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Sarah P. Hancock

Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC, lived for nearly two decades misdiagnosed with severe "treatment resistant" mental illness. She was given 116 bilateral ECT treatments and now lives with Delayed Electrical Injury's Myoneuroal Disorder. Sarah holds a Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling and taught for four years in San Diego State University’s Rehabilitation Counseling program. She is the Co-Founder and Trustee of the Ionic Injury Foundation. She also hosts The Emotional Self-Reliance Podcast and guest lectures on psychiatric recovery.