In one study, elderly patients who received ECT were compared with those who didn’t. One year later, more than 25 percent of the ECT group had died compared to a survival rate of non-ECT elderly of 96 percent.

Unfortunately, hardly anyone knows what happens to ECT patients once they leave the hospital.

Despite this lack of documentation, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) routinely throws out the figure that ECT kills only one in 10,000 patients. However, that figure is only a guess made by Richard Abrams, a psychiatrist and owner of ECT machine maker, Somatics.

In Texas, one in 350 patients died within the first two weeks after receiving electric shock. Since Texas doesn’t track patients beyond two weeks, the numbers could be much, much higher.