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A public protest against the psychiatric procedure of electroshock took place in Cork on Saturday.
A
number of speakers referred to the fact that, following a decline in
the 1980's and 90's, electroshock is now on the increase again. Apart
from causing cellular brain injury it is also, in a ratio of 2 to 1,
used more on women than men. Many of the women are elderly including,
recently, a woman of 92.
Grandmother
and shock recipient Mary Maddock (69) spoke of a power imbalance faced
by the victims of an outdated procedure which she described as a human
rights violation.
Other
speakers placed the procedure in the context of present day overall
forced psychiatric practice which also sees people drugged against their
will with no alternatives available.
The
protest was organized by MindFreedom Ireland, a Cork based psychiatric
survivor movement and marked their 10th anniversary of what was the
first ever public electroshock protest in Ireland in 2007. Similar
protests have been taking place worldwide for almost three decades.
MindFreedom Ireland. Cork, May 14th, 2017.
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