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::deal::  The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in the year 2000 that Electroshock (ECT) also known as electroconvulsive therapy, shock therapy, shock treatments, and electrotherapy may cause brain damage and permanent memory loss.

100,000 people in the USA and 10,000 people in Canada receive ECT yearly.  Elderly women are most vulnerable to ECT.

Ernest Hemingway the writer had ECT in 1961 given to him against his will and a few days after his ECT he killed himself as he could not longer write anything.

I had 5 ECTs given to me against my will in 1972.  I suffer now from permanent memory loss.

The Republic of Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) has become the first shock free zone in the world.  See these links for more information:  http://www.banshock.org,  

http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_10.1 ... shock.html

For other websites with information on ECT:

http://www.ect.org
http://www.geocities.com/sueclark2001ca/
http://www.breggin.com
http://www.banshock.org
http://www.wildestcolts.com
http://www.antipsychiatry.org
http://www.stopshrinks.org
http://www.mindfreedom.org

http://www.beyondtv.org/pages/project_page.php/60