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"Tell your doctor if you are being treated with electroshock therapy and if you have or have ever had: • Cancer • A heart attack or irregular heart beat • High blood pressure • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDs) • Low white blood cell count • Thoughts of suicide • Heart disease Notify your doctor or dentist that you are taking this drug if you have a medical emergency, and before you have surgery or dental treatment. Your doctor will ask you to stop using the drug if you are going to have elective surgery." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"I didn't think I belonged there, but then I began to wonder if I did," recalls Ruggiero, who was injected with muscle relaxants and anesthetics, strapped down by her ankles and hands, and administered electroshock therapy. Nowadays, she calls the dreadful, frightening, unnecessary experience "barbaric." Not surprisingly, electroshock didn't help her low-blood-sugar symptoms one bit. Although Ruggiero's experiences were extreme, it's not uncommon for hypoglycemics, before being diagnosed, to have been deemed mentally unhinged." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"In Stage 6 a physician may offer the creme de la creme of psychiatric experimentation: electroshock therapy (ECT). Given that an extraordinarily large amount of electricity is passed through the brain—leaving many patients with little mental ability, intelligence or memory—one has to question what exactly is therapeutic about this monstrous procedure. And, of course, this procedure is conducted after the patient has experienced the equivalent of a chemical lobotomy." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"There has been no mechanism or brain structure found that can eradicate emotional memory or obliterate the need for connection; not even electroshock therapy. Electroshock, obviously, tends to enhance the disconnection. To destroy memory is tantamount to destroying part of the right side of the brain. All therapies that leave the imprint intact strengthen existing mechanisms of defense, diverting memory from consciousness. That means there can be no profound change. From that there is no escape. Consciousness is our goal because unconsciousness defines neurosis." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) "It is now not surprising when I say that my patients who have undergone electroshock therapy have to relive it to get it out of their systems. What comes in that is overwhelming and/or noxious, must go out. Low body temperature or low blood pressure can be part of an overall memory of a terrible struggle at birth or a trauma before birth where abandoning the struggle was the end result. That end scenario is stamped in as a parasympathetic prototype and remains as a tendency thereafter." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"The brain has long been recognized to be an electrical organ, which is why electroshock therapy has historically been used to treat depression. But scientists are now working on less invasive tools to treat the electric brain. A recent article in Science touted the beneficial effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which stimulates the brain with magnetic fields. [Helmuth 2001; Hallet 2000] TMS is an updated version of the same 19th century radioesthesia healing techniques that were once denounced by conventional medicine." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

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