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Therapy or Torture? The Truth About Electroshock Airs on World Mental Health Day

LOS ANGELES, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ -- It hits the head with the force of a 40-pound cinder block dropped seven and a half feet. It's been described by patients as a grenade going off in your body. It's called electroconvulsive therapy. And the truth of this violent practice is revealed in the original documentary Therapy or Torture: The Truth About Electroshock, featured on World Mental Health Day, October 10, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the Scientology Network.

Man-on-the-street interviews show most people have no idea this barbaric practice is still in use. Yet electroshock or ECT (the initials stand for electroconvulsive therapy) is not an antiquated medical practice of some bygone era. The stark truth is that ECT is inflicted on a million people worldwide. Every year.

Side effects of ECT include amnesia (substantial and permanent memory loss), confusion, disorientation, apathy, disinterest, headaches, nausea, slowed reaction time, lowered intellectual function, and death.

In a single shock treatment, the psychiatrist sends up to 460 volts through the brain of the patient. Putting this into perspective, the human brain operates on 0.2 volts - eight times less than the 1.5 volts of a watch battery - so ECT inflicts the patient with 2,300 times the electricity the brain uses to function.

Therapy or Torture: The Truth About Electroshock is a gripping exposé of the $5.4 billion ECT business, its history, practitioners and devastating results, revealed in graphic detail.

The film is a Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) documentary, part of an ongoing investigative series to educate the public on abuses of psychiatry. Other CCHR documentaries expose the truth about the marketing of psychotropic prescriptions, the dangers of those drugs and the psychiatric industry's terrifying history.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights was cofounded in 1969 by professor of psychiatry Dr. Thomas Szasz and the Church of Scientology. With headquarters in Los Angeles, California, CCHR International guides a global human rights advocacy network of some 180 chapters across more than 30 nations. CCHR Commissioners include physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers, legislators, government officials, educators and civil rights representatives.

The Scientology Network debuted on March 12, 2018. Since launching, the Scientology Network has been viewed in over 240 countries and territories in 17 languages. Satisfying the curiosity of people about the Scientology religion and Founder L. Ron Hubbard, the network takes viewers across six continents, spotlighting the everyday lives of Scientologists, showing the Church as a global organization, and presenting its social betterment programs that have touched the lives of millions worldwide. The network also showcases documentaries by independent filmmakers who represent a cross section of cultures and faiths but share a common purpose of uplifting communities. Scientology Network's innovative content has been recognized with more than 125 industry awards, including Tellys, Communitas and Hermes Creative Awards.

Broadcast from Scientology Media Productions, the Church's global media center in Los Angeles, the Scientology Network is available on DIRECTV Channel 320, DIRECTV STREAM, AT&T U-verse and can be streamed at Scientology.tv, on mobile apps and via the Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV platforms.

LEARN MORE:

https://www.scientology.tv/schedule/

MULTIMEDIA:

https://www.scientology.tv/series/cchr-documentaries/therapy-or-torture-the-truth-about-electroshock.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6WexwhZVM

It hits the head with the force of a 40-pound cinder block dropped seven and a half feet. It's been described by patients as a grenade going off in your body. It's called electroconvulsive therapy. And the truth of this violent practice is revealed in the original documentary Therapy or Torture: The Truth About Electroshock, featured on World Mental Health Day, October 10, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the Scientology Network.

Related link: https://www.scientology.org/

On World Mental Health Day Meet a Texas Hero Who is Helping Protect Victims of Psychiatry

LOS ANGELES, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ -- "Psychiatry is a system that all too often works on the weakest, most vulnerable people," says Lee Spiller, Executive Director of Citizens Commission on Human Rights Texas. "It is a bullying system, and I just don't like bullies." Spiller is featured October 10 on the Scientology Network's World Mental Health Day marathon television event in an episode of Voices for Humanity.

For more than two decades, Spiller has been fighting for the rights of the victims of psychiatric abuse by investigating and exposing the psychiatric industry's corruption and systemic malfeasance.

"When you've met people that are inside a hospital and they can't get out, when you meet people who've been restrained, you understand just how fragile those rights are," he says. "When I see a chance to make change, I try to make change."

Spiller's work is credited with the closure of 172 abusive psychiatric institutions and a 50 percent reduction in psychiatric drugging of foster children. And his activism within state government has directly led to the passage of dozens of state laws to prevent unscrupulous activities by psychiatry.

Mark World Mental Health Day by watching Lee Spiller's episode of Voices for Humanity on the Scientology Network.

The Scientology Network debuted on March 12, 2018. Since launching, it has been viewed in over 240 countries and territories in 17 languages. Satisfying the curiosity of people about the Scientology religion and Founder L. Ron Hubbard, the network takes viewers across six continents, spotlighting the everyday lives of Scientologists, showing the Church as a global organization, and presenting its social betterment programs that have touched the lives of millions worldwide. The network also showcases documentaries by independent filmmakers who represent a cross section of cultures and faiths but share a common purpose of uplifting communities.

Scientology Network's innovative content has been recognized with more than 125 industry awards, including Tellys, Communitas and Hermes Creative Awards.

Broadcast from Scientology Media Productions, the Church's global media center in Los Angeles, the Scientology Network is available on DIRECTV Channel 320, DIRECTV STREAM, AT&T U-verse and can be streamed at Scientology.tv, on mobile apps and via the Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV platforms.

LEARN MORE:

https://www.scientology.tv/schedule/

MULTIMEDIA:

https://voicesforhumanity.tv

https://www.scientology.tv/series/voices-for-humanity/lee-spiller.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cldoM2RK0

"Psychiatry is a system that all too often works on the weakest, most vulnerable people," says Lee Spiller, Executive Director of Citizens Commission on Human Rights Texas. "It is a bullying system, and I just don't like bullies." Spiller is featured October 10 on the Scientology Network's World Mental Health Day marathon television event in an episode of Voices for Humanity.

Related link: https://www.scientology.org/

Call for Action Against Psychiatric Abuse on World Mental Health Day

LOS ANGELES, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ -- In observance of World Mental Health Day on October 10, Scientology Network will present a marathon television event featuring the work of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and its partners to expose psychiatric abuse.

With one in four Americans currently taking psychiatric drugs, including over 400,000 children ages 0-5, most remain unaware of their inherent dangers. A partial list of reported side effects includes suicidal ideation, anxiety, violence, depression, psychosis, hallucinations and death. In fact, patients taking psychotropic drugs are nearly six times more likely to kill themselves.

And despite the FDA admitting to electroshock (ECT) causing cardiovascular complications, memory loss, cognitive impairment, brain damage and death, about 100,000 Americans receive ECT every year. Further, psychiatrists confess they do not know how ECT "works."

Scientology Network's World Mental Health Day marathon will be dedicated to educating the public on psychiatric abuses and corruption worldwide and is a call to action to help eradicate the crimes of the psychiatric industry.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a nonprofit mental health watchdog committed to help put an end to the criminal practices of the psychiatric industry around the world. To date, CCHR and its partners have helped enact more than 320 laws protecting individuals from abusive practices.

World Mental Health Day Marathon will feature:

CCHR documentaries - an ongoing investigative series taking on the powerful and well-funded psychiatric interest groups to expose the truth about the marketing of dangerous psychotropic drugs and the industry's terrifying history. The films included are:

* Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock, an exposé on the brutal psychiatric practice of electroshock

* Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, an investigation of psychiatry's dark past

* Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? - a look at how psychiatry concocts mental diseases for the sake of profit

* The Hidden Enemy: Inside Psychiatry's Covert Agenda, uncovering how psychiatry infiltrated the US military and its devastating effects

Voices for Humanity - the only ongoing television series dedicated to those working in the streets, schools and communities to spread the message of human rights, educate communities on the dangers of drugs and combat psychiatric abuse.

The World Mental Health Day marathon starts October 10 at 8 a.m. ET.

Learn the truth about the psychiatric industry. Visit cchr.org for more information, and see the full marathon schedule at Scientology.tv/schedule.

The Scientology Network debuted on March 12, 2018. Since launching, the Scientology Network has been viewed in over 240 countries and territories in 17 languages. Satisfying the curiosity of people about the Scientology religion and Founder L. Ron Hubbard, the network takes viewers across six continents, spotlighting the everyday lives of Scientologists, showing the Church as a global organization, and presenting its social betterment programs that have touched the lives of millions worldwide. The network also showcases documentaries by independent filmmakers who represent a cross section of cultures and faiths but share a common purpose of uplifting communities. Scientology Network's innovative content has been recognized with more than 125 industry awards, including Tellys, Communitas and Hermes Creative Awards.

Broadcast from Scientology Media Productions, the Church's global media center in Los Angeles, the Scientology Network is available on DIRECTV Channel 320, DIRECTV STREAM, AT&T U-verse and can be streamed at Scientology.tv, on mobile apps and via the Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV platforms.

LEARN MORE:

https://www.scientology.tv/schedule/

MULTIMEDIA:

https://www.scientology.tv/series/cchr-documentaries/psychiatry-an-industry-of-death.html

https://www.scientology.tv/series/cchr-documentaries/therapy-or-torture-the-truth-about-electroshock.html

https://www.scientology.tv/series/cchr-documentaries/marketing-of-madness.html

In observance of World Mental Health Day on October 10, Scientology Network will present a marathon television event featuring the work of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and its partners to expose psychiatric abuse.

Related link: https://www.scientology.org/