Besides the physical after-effects of ECT—brain trauma, memory loss, organ damage—there are the psychological after-effects.

The sudden and permanent inability to remember how to do simple tasks, recall the names of best friends, children or spouses, not to mention recalling one’s life before ECT, can be devastating.

Devastating enough for a person to take their own life. Yet, psychiatrists brazenly assert that ECT prevents suicide—a claim debunked by studies demonstrating that the reverse is true. Reliable statistics show that the suicide rate is 13 times higher among patients who receive ECT than those who don’t.