ECT & brain damage: what it looks like and how to get help - Guest
Dec 08, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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Episode description
ECT and brain injury:
what does electroconvulsive therapy-induced brain damage look like and how can patients get testing and rehab?
Continuing this special series, Deborah, former level 1 trauma nurse and electroshock survivor, explains
- ECT injury symptoms & consequences of those injuries as far as we understand
- Barriers keeping patients from getting appropriate testing and rehabilitative following ECT
- What tests to request How sharing your experience can help yourself and other patients
PETITIONS
Sarah's petition - Petition · Standardize, Regulate & Audit Shock Treatments (Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT) · Change.org
Sarah’s Latest Article Open Letter to the FDA's Denial of ECT's Harms - 2021 - Life After ECT
Sue's Petition - closed
Medical Errors Podcast interview - ECT & Brain Damage - A Physician's Experience - Life After ECT
RESOURCES
Electroconvulsive trauma episode
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