Datenquelle: Zweijahresbericht 2024–2025 des Nachlassgerichtsverwalters von Connecticut
Daten aus den Zweijahresberichten, die bis ins Jahr 2012 zurückreichen, deuten darauf hin 2025 war ein Rekordjahr Machen Sie sich bei Anfragen zur erzwungenen Elektroschockbehandlung in Connecticut überhaupt keine Sorgen, da Connecticuts stellvertretender landesweiter medizinischer Direktor der Abteilung für psychische Gesundheit und Suchtdienste sprach Anfang des Jahres mit Inside Investigator um uns allen zu versichern, dass jeder wahrgenommene Anstieg der Zwangsbehandlung mit Elektroschocks in Connecticut darauf zurückzuführen ist, dass das System einfach auf das Niveau vor der COVID-Krise zurückkehrt.
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This wasn’t a qualifying data visualization yesterday, and it isn’t a qualifying data visualization today.
*sigh* It’s hard for such a simple figure to be so deceptive.
In the original document, „forced electroshock requests“ is called „Permission for Shock Therapy“. The figure’s wording implies that people are being forced to get ECT when they don’t want to. That’s not at all what this is. Imagine someone has an intellectual disability or another mental illness (e.g., schozophrenia). They’re not allowed to agree to ECT. So, probate court is there to okay it. It’s a protection for patients, not a way for evil doctors to force people to get ECT who don’t want it.
To give more context, here is a snippet from the abstract of a scientific publication on the topic.
Court-Approved Electroconvulsive Therapy in Patients Unable to Provide Their Own Consent: A Case Series
In particular, although the patients were unable to provide their own consent for ECT [edited to add: and so the probate court gave it for them], they were amenable to receive the treatments and did not seem resistant or hostile to the treatment process. We conclude that, in patients unable to provide their own consent, court-approved ECT is well tolerated.