The parents of the young man from Arzuano who receives electroshocks do not understand that “now they are asking for consent to perform the CT scan, but not from the judge, as they did with electroconvulsive therapy”
The family of Ivanthe Arzuan who is receiving electroshocks for alleged suicidal tendencies, has just been informed that she has suffered a epistaxis (nosebleed from an internal injury). And to find the cause, those responsible for the Provincial Hospital of Conxo They have requested family consent to perform an angiotac with contrast in order to observe the internal arterial or venous anatomy and thus discover the origin of said epistaxis.
Thus, and taking into account that most epistaxis responds to a mere rupture of a blood vessel, it could also be caused by trauma, without it being ruled out that electroconvulsive therapy could be behind it. In any case, what has upset the family is that “Now ask your mother for consent to perform the TACbut not to the judge, as they did with electroconvulsive therapy, ECT”, their relatives declare.
In turn, the father stresses to EL CORREO GALLEGO, from the Prensa Ibérica group, that the family “he’s a little lost in all of thisbecause on the one hand they love us, when they have problems, but on the other they don’t, and they hide behind the judge”. He also remembers that “For me the important thing is my son, not them, and if he needs that test, have it done“.
While, controversy continues among critics of electroconvulsive therapywhich some consider antiquated and inhuman, stating that they have no ability to heal, and the psychiatrists who defend its validity as a resource in cases of severe psychosis, which may put the patient’s life at risk.
Specifically, the doctor Peter R Breggina psychiatrist graduated from Harvard University, is convinced that “after one, two or three ECTs, the trauma causes symptoms typical of severe head trauma or injurysuch as headache, nausea, memory loss, disorientation, confusion, impaired judgment, personality loss, and emotional instability. These harmful effects worsen and some become permanent as standard treatment progresses.”
When this therapy was introduced in the 1930s, it was used to treat psychosis and schizophrenia, but today it is mainly used for depression and severe bipolar disorder. Critics of electroshock argue that medical research on ECT have systematically ignored the negative effects of therapy for four decades. Organizations such as Justicia TEC, ECT Justice, and the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights have launched international campaigns to ban the treatment. Other experts such as Owais Trimizi, author of the study “Electroconvulsive therapy: how modern techniques improve outcomes for patients”, argue that research shows that “between 64% and 87% of patients with clinical depression respond to ECTwith response rates of 95% in the case of patients with psychosis”.
From the CHUS, they explain to this newspaper that the TEC It is a technique that psychiatrists use on a regular basis to treat severe psychotic disorders and that the Hospital de Conxo apply it with extreme security in modern facilities and with qualified personnel. In a debate as complex as this, it is time for psychiatric professionals to speak.