Brain Damage from ECT and the breakdown of loving and meaningful connections within the family Unit - Andy Luff
I'm Andy Luff and this is my first attempt at a blog post. People may look upon it as either a good or bad effort. This doesn't bother me really. What I am writing about is the truth about what happened to me and my family after I had ECT in 2015. Here goes:- I had 4 individual ECTs in the spring of 2015. Psychiatry had diagnosed me with Bipolar 2 when the problems that I was having were due to sensory overload from my Asperger's. I kept telling them this. I was polydrugged with antidepressants and antipsychotics for 2 years before they gave me ECT, then polydrugged for another 3 years afterwards. The psychiatrists really had no idea what they were doing, using such words as "we must get the cocktail right" and "sometimes it gets worse before it gets better" when I was explaining to them about my brain injury after the ECT that I had been given. Through the denial of brain injury from ECT by psychiatry, I was pretty much abandoned emotionally by my ow