Judge Rotenberg Treatment Center Electrically Shocks Special Needs Teenager

That is horrible.

the fuck.

my friend showed me this the other day. so fucked up. why they have the video out on the internet, i dont understand

i know a girl in her 20s whos a college grad h addict and she got shocked every morning to induce siezures hoping it would cure her years long addiction.

they did that for 6 months


american addiction treatment lol

Maybe so that people can watch it? You stupid or something?

Electroconvulsive therapy can actually help with a lot of disorders, this type of shocking is fucking crazy though.

Firstly, I'd just like to acknowledge just how amazing modern medicine is when it comes to saving lives and improving the quality of life (eg joint replacements, prosthetics).

However, when it comes to psychiatric/psychological issues, it seems crazy to me just how many treatments are used with very little scientific basis behind them. While I accept that the brain is an incredibly complex organ and very little is actually known about it, some of the treatments are straight up inhumane. Things like electroconvulsive therapy, insulin shock therapy, cranial electrotherapy, etc, are some of the most disturbing things I have ever had described to me. Yet unlike all other fields of medicine, which require rigorous testing and understanding before a drug or procedure is approved, when asked how treatments such as those aforementioned work, the most you will get from even the most experienced psychiatrists is "it is proposed that it does this, it is suggested that is does that, it seems to do this in most patients". Most of these
"treatments" seem to have trickled down from the early 1900's when some psychiatrists/psychologists were more akin to torturers than medical practitioners, and for whatever reason the practices were widely adopted and remain in use today, despite very little being known about their mode of action.

What is even worse, however, is the treatment of these individuals. Once someone has been labelled as a psychiatric patient/special needs, it is near impossible to shake that title and noone listens anymore. They are often treated mlike experimental subjects and like non-human beings. In fact, I would say that their lives are probably more similar to a prisoners: they are there for the purpose of rehabilitation and in some cases reintegration, but instead, they are merely trapped by their label and are subject to some of the cruelest treatments, which may or may not work.

The doctors asked me if I'd consider doing ECT... I said no.

is there an article on this somewhere? i am writing a bioethics paper and decided to do it on psychosurgeries like lobotomies and crazy shit like this

180 days of it..... she left the hospital and was back on h in 2 fucking days haha. and yeah it really is fucking funny to me... oh heroins illegal in the us, so instead of giving her a maintainence dose of it bidaily lets fucking give her a seizure everyday for 6 months... lmfao dr drew... the dumbest swiss german doctors in europe are smarter than your prettyboy "i dye my hair gray to look smart on tv"  stupid chicken fucking ass

yeah were still in the cuckoos nest, shocking and giving prefrontal lobotomies. essentially americas cure for addiction,

im pretty sure you need a special consent form for ect,,,,, if you even consider it a treatment....not a bunch of morally superior doctors thinking "hmmm hes an addict,, lets shock him and see if the addiction goes away" lol  like i said a girl i knew did ect for 180 days straight left the hospital and was back on h in 2 days..lmfao

I'm going to real quick put this out there before anyone else gets their tirades posted, but most ECT is not violent or torturous. I have personally seen it done and its really not a big deal. Also, it has helped some people greatly from certain illnesses.

jesus christ its 2012, arent we just supposed to feed these kids pills until they can think?