Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on August 15, 2014, at 20:36:39
In reply to Re: a lot of it depends on your Pdoc, posted by Christ_empowered on August 14, 2014, at 21:19:14
I am not against involuntary ECT in very rare and specific cases. Sometimes, such as when a person is catatonic and cannot speak or otherwise become mentally incompetent, ECT is the only thing that will really work.
I do believe in the rare cases of involuntary ECT, the Judge ought to be required by state statute to assign the involuntary ECT patient an advocate, someone who is not not in anyway financially connected to the hospital or doctors performing the ECT. And should be someone with a psychiatric medical background, such as a psychiatric nurse familiar with ECT and severe mental illness. If the "no conflicts" advocate believes the patient "has had enough of the ECT," they can write a letter or otherwise communicate their professional advocacy opinion to the Judge who originally ordered the involuntary ECT.
To me, "advocacy assigned by default" in involuntary cases is just simple psychiatric professionalism.
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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> Anyway, in other states, they also do involuntary ECT on an in- and out-patient basis. Fun times, huh? I read about this one women in NYC, she's been through over 100 ECT treatments, and the hospital wanted to do more. She doesn't speak much English. An anti-psychiatry group intervened, thank God.
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