Comments on: ELECTROSHOCKING ELDERLY PEOPLE: ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE

By: vicky

vicky — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:39 +0000

From 2003 to 2004 i had 60 shock treatments.At a surgery center in Loma Linda Ca.I was in my mid 40′s at the time.I regret ever having them.And they never helped anyway.The only thing they did was erase my memory,I remember almost nothing of my 2 children growing up!! I was not aware this would happen, i was told that i (might)have some memory loss but,was told it would eventually come back. Not true.I have been off all meds which i was on for 20 years and i was told i could never get off of them.I took all kinds of psych.drugs everyday for 20 years.Now i have T.D.And I’ve been off all the meds. for 3 years and never felt better.While on the meds. i gained 100 lbs. I’ve lost it with diet and exercise alone.I wish i had never had the shock treatments!!!

By: doug

doug — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:59:53 +0000

I have been of a variety of potent psychiatric drugs for over 12 years. On my own, without consulting anyone I took myself off everything cold-turkey in November of 2009. Next week will be my sixth month of detox. I still have not had my normal sleep cycle return yet and I am still in the throws of detox. I am hoping that in 6 more months I will completely recover, but it has taken you 2.5 years so I don’t know. I was on a huge dose of Ritalin and an enormous dose of a nasty thing called lamictal. Before lamictal, I was on wellbutrin and paxil. I won’t bore you with all the details of how brutal my detox has been, just be aware that the fatigue, crippling depression and muscle tension are all part of the process of weaning myself off of the poison. Thor Nystrom wrote an article for Rolling Stone magazine called ‘To hell and back’. It is easy to find on the net if you type in the above info. His story gave me the courage to cold-turkey everything. I am a tennis and racquetball professional and words can’t describe how messed up my coordination and timing got when I was on this crap. I pray that I don’t have tardive dyskensia as my mouth and tongue always ‘feel’ weird, but getting better each day. There is an army of us out there, victims of the psyche system who are having the courage to regain our lives and tell our story. I hope to be one of the best combo tennis and racquetball players in the world for my age, and show everyone how I could only have this success OFF the drugs. I have played poorly for the past decade with a horribly tight back and with miserable coordination and balance. I am now fully convinced that all of these difficulties are the direct result of the ill-communicated side effects of the poison I ingested. Each day I slowly return to the real me, but new levels of detox and new horrors in terms of what was stolen from me emerge. I am a very happy person because even though I don’t really have a career or relationship, I was dead and I am slowly coming back to life and I will make sure the rest of my life is fully devoted to helping other people learn about the dangers and consequences of using these drugs and what they can do to a person.

By: Nicolaas Vegt

Nicolaas Vegt — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:19:00 +0000

Hi there,
I have been drugged for 23 years and got off the drugs safely with a professional retired ex operation theater nurse who had compassion on me as I could not even operate a cell phone at the time she discovered me. Moreover that I discovered her and I am a Canadian citizen living overseas. when are we going to be recognized victims in the courts as I am wanting closure to this abuse. It is very hard for me to rid myself of the daily reality of the horrors that I have suffered under the care of the System. It still is very much shoved under the carpet by the Canadian Government. It took me the better part of two and a half years to get of these horrible drugs and even my family wanted back then to keep me on it as they never knew anything about it and in my book that is also victimizing the family too, as they really did care for me as I went through difficult times back then and these drugs only compounded the problem for me. The withdrawal was one of the most excruciatingly painful thing that I have ever had to go through and it is not recognized by anyone who cares about abuse other than a few survivors of the same as there are millions that are out there I know who had the same horrors or worse as I did. I want someone to write me on this to address the compensation as I am really hoping that there is some of it out there and I am not getting any of the money at all. 23 years of my life is nothing to bock at.

I am not going away easily about this and be swept under the rug like trash as I don’t deserve to be treated like yesterday’s garbage.
Sincerely
Nicolaas Vegt

By: Elaine Renoire

Elaine Renoire — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:30:34 +0000

It just keeps getting worse for the elderly. No one wants to grow old, of course, but now it’s just plain scary!

The elderly are often forced into nursing homes against their will, their home and possessions sold (also against their will) and given psychotropic drugs to give the appearance of dementia when in fact they have been forced to wear a “chemical straightjacket”.

All this is done with the “blessing” of the court through unlawful and abusive guardianships, which are a national epidemic.

You think if you follow your attorney’s advice, plan for your old age by executing advance directives, you’ll be ok? Nope. What they don’t tell you is that lawless courts roll over advance directives every day – devestating families and bank accounts.

Anyone who becomes vulnerable is a target. The kicker is each of us will become vulnerable at some time in our lives.

Visit NASGA at http://www.StopGuardianAbuse.org and read victims’ stories for yourself.

Forewarned is forearmed!

Yours,
Elaine Renoire
NASGA

By: nurse

nurse — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:20:52 +0000

As a health care provider, I’ve witnessed ECT and followed case studies in the late 90′s and did a little research. Long term benefits were ineffective and side effects, particularly memory
loss was problematic for patients. The cases I followed and the
Psychiatric field at that time would only consider ECT for the chronically depressed who didn’t benefit from pharmocolgoy and thearpy
and would NEVER be administered without the expressed consent of
the patient.

Performing ECT on ‘wards’ via Probate court appointed guardianships violates the Patient’s Bill of Rights Act and Constitutional Rights. This practice brings Psychiatry and Probate Court/Guardianship to a new level of abuse. Lobotomizing the elderly and stealing their assets.

An ‘evil’ sickness has crept its way into a once free society.