~ ~ ~
Note to our Utah State House
of Representatives and Senators
~ ~ ~
Honorable Representatives and Senators:
Please vote YES! for HB
109 placing limitations on the use of: Electro Convulsive
(Shock) Treatments -"ECT".
Restrictions, mandatory reporting and culpability -- especially protecting
children -- must be placed upon this already questionable, oft damaging
and severely traumatic, long outdated procedure and its obviously non-progressive
practitioners and proponents.
With my personal experience in neurological research, and having had
a once sweet, kind and sensitive extended family member put involuntarily
through it, I know the destruction of neurological tissues and subsequent
dysfunction left by the literal burn out of delicate brain wiring (neurons,
synapse, ganglia), especially now when better environmental, chemical,
medical, nutritional and social counseling methods have been developed
and can be used with much more safety and without the awful harm and barbaric
trauma of this very imprecise tissue dispersed convulsion inducing
electric shock at its minimum, to a destroying burn at its worst.
Electro Shock is an 16th century "discovered" or contrived cop-out,
and is an evasion from using modern, more precise, treatments which require
more dedication, skills, efforts and education on the part of the therapists
and are well known and proven to be far superior.
In a personal family experience, intentional shock treatment orders
appeared to have served as a convenient means to destroy or cover emotional
and sexual violation damages which would have indicated the true cause
of emotional dysfunction and indicted the culpable party and his acts against
the victim! -- as was evident later in this case with which I am familiar!
Her radical electro shock therapy was a very effective memory delete!
This bill would have prevented the free "willy-nilly" use of this archaic
electrocution of her brain and the unnecessary life damage done to a once
wonderful vibrant and productive young women who was dumbed-down and by
such, allowed her violator (and committing agent) to be left undetected
for three decades!
tr/2/20/03
FYI: One of many, now safer, legitimately better treatment possibilities,
duplicating, validating and complimenting some of our own research efforts,
findings and already successful local volunteered trials:
Univ.
Florida - Neurological disorders - [ADD] Schizophrenia, Autism local
text cache
-- also linked from our own local neurological education and efforts:
ADDDepressionAutism.org |
