The Extra news show explores the issues surrounding ECT. This segment interviews Liz McGillicuddy, who lost much of her memory from electroshock in 1994.
Hope Morgan received ECT when she began suffering from insomnia. Her doctor diagnosed depression. "My life was in a shambles," says Hope, referring to the devastation following the ECT.
Diann'a Loper fell into a post-partum depression. Her psychiatrist pushed her into ECT, and she lost everything - her marriage, her new baby, and most of her life. Says Diann'a, "I wish they would have killed me."
After making a public offer to evaluate individuals with damage after ECT, Sackeim explains that he told the NY Assemblyman Peter Rivera (D-Bronx) he discarded the responses. They "spent the day" together. How cozy. Rivera is head of the New York Committee on Mental Health. Harold has more than one cozy relationship, and it's paid off in a big way for him.
Source: Mecta lawsuit deposition
Christian Hageseth of Fort Collins, Colorado once billed himself as the "compassionate" shock doc. He has been in and out of courtrooms since and the latest chapter in this soap opera involves illegally writing internet prescriptions. A California teenager committed suicide after Hageseth wrote a prescription for Prozac.
From March 2006, San Francisco
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