ECT sends up to 460 volts of raw electricity through the brain to induce a seizure.
Citizens Commission on Human Rights' gripping documentary “Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock” exposes abuses in the $5.4 billion ECT industry.
WASHINGTON, DC, US, June 10, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Psychiatrists working for mental health facilities in the U.S. routinely seek court orders for individuals’ involuntary commitment to their facilities and for the forced psychiatric treatment of those patients, including forced drugging and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), known more commonly as electroshock.
However some, including the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), contend that ECT is torture, causes brain damage and is a human rights abuse. The gripping documentary, “Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock,” by CCHR, reveals alarming facts about the $5.4 billion ECT industry.