Bono wrote a song "Electric Co.,"1980" The song was written
after Bono, U2"s lead singer, visited a school friend at Dublin"s St. Brendan"s Psychiatric Hospital where he had just undergone electroshock. 1980 " Boy, stupid boy
Don't sit at the table
Until you're able to
Toy, broken toy
Shout shout
You're inside out
If you don't know, Electric co.
If you don't know, Electric co.
Red, running red
Play for real
The toy could feel
A hole in your head
You go in shock
You're spoon-fed....
Just to hear me
I've found me way home.
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Electroshock is still a very controversial treatment and is still around, it never left.
There are groups worldwide who want electroshock banned. Electroshock is also known as ECT, shock, shock therapy and electroconvulsive therapy.
There was a study done by Dr. Harold Sackeim who determined that electroshock always causes brain damage. See breggin.com for more info. See the blog and news section.
The International Campaign to Ban Electroshock (ICBE) deems ECT to be unethical, barbaric, an atrocity and a crime against humanity. ICBE website: intcamp.wordpress.com
Sue Clark-Wittenberg the director of the ICBE is an electroshock survivor.
ECT stats:
100,000 Americans get ECT yearly
Worldwide 1 to 2 million people get ECT yearly
ECT websites:
breggin.com - Dr. Breggin has info on ECT and its damaging effects
endfoshock.com - see the "Electroshock Quotationary"
ect.org - lots of info on ECT
mindfreedom.org/ray - help Ray Sandford in Minnesota
mindfreedomireland.com - Mary Maddock in Cork Ireland has a webite. She is an electroshock survivor
capa.oise.utoronto.ca - ECT protest in Toronto Canada May 10, 2009
"Electroshock (ECT) is a crime against humanity"
Help end ECT worldwide by visiting The International
Campaign to Ban Electroshock (ICBE)
ICBE website: intcamp.wordpress.com