INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTESTS AGAINST ELECTROSHOCK IN PSYCHIATRY - OHIO SOLIDARITY EVENT

[Image courtesy of CCHR]

WHERE: OSU Wexner’s Harding Hospital

12th and Upham, 1670 Upham Drive #130

South Campus, Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

WHEN: May 16, 2014: 2-4 p.m.

PARKING: There is some street parking and a parking garage catty-corner from Harding Hospital, a photo of which is attached – both of the hospital and the parking garage. There is a tiny sign near the curb identifying the building as Harding Hospital.

CONTACT INFO: Please contact Katherine at 614-633-0215 () for ideas for signs and how to help on the day of the event. We still need folks to steerHigh Street traffic towards the West on 10th Street, and to put up flyers in OSU and other college dormitories. Signs for any event in Ohio should not have poles - they should be held. Otherwise it will be assumed that the stick is a weapon. But ECT isn’t? Go figure. We are also still looking for speakers who are physicians, ECT survivors, electricians or others with professional expertise in electricity.

SHOCK TREATMENT – YES THEY STILL DO IT

AND THEY CAN DO IT BY FORCE & CALL IT “LEGAL”

Ohio Rev. Code Sec. 5122.271 permits electroshock by force, and on children, just like it allows forced toxic drugging, the lobotomies now called “psychosurgery”, and even though there is no evidence people with mental illness diagnoses have anything wrong with their brains. The FDA categorizes ECT devices as Class III devices - defined as those for which “insufficient information exists to assure their safety and effectiveness solely through general or special controls”. Class III devices require Premarket Approval (PMA) before they can be legally marketed. The corporate controlled media is expected to now begin to take a detour from pushing the supposed benefits of forced psychiatric drugging, now veering into the promotion ofECT and psychosurgery as new and improved. They all cause brain damage, but shock treatments and lobotomy may be a harder sell. The public seems to now understand that lobotomy and shock treatments, even re-packaged, are still atrocities. It hardly is surprising to learn that certain hospitals and other centers are quietly taking referrals and running profitable little industries because ECT pays quite well for providers whose patients have good insurance. OSU’s Harding Hospital appears to be one of those, running an ECT operation on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. right here on the college campus. Others in Ohio include the Cleveland Clinic and the Lindner Center of “HOPE”.

According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, theAmerican Psychiatric Association claims anECT death rate of one in 10,000 patients. However,

Texas statistics reveal the death rate among theelderly receiving ECT is 1 in 200.

Rarely do psychiatrists tell patients these facts,or the fact that even one ECT“treatment” has been known to wipe out a college education. Leaving out these facts violates “informed consent” laws and, in doing so, ECT doctors and their staff commit assault and malpractice. Criminal statutesmaystill apply to any psychiatrist who administersECT and so harms a patient.Citizens are urged to begin learning what is being done in the name of “psychiatry” for their “own good”.

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