Ban Electroconvulsive Therapy (E.C.T) in Australia Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/ban-electroconvulsive-therapy-ect-in-australia.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:12 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Miss Lauren Miller [Signature #92] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24239093?utm_medium=rss Mon, 21 Mar 2022 05:07:47 UTC 24239093 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #91] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23193036?utm_medium=rss ECT is very big problem, similar as atomic bombs.

]]> Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:04:03 UTC 23193036 MS Louise Smith [Signature #90] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23060273?utm_medium=rss Fri, 10 May 2019 10:03:27 UTC 23060273 Miss Amanda Eulenstein [Signature #89] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22093783?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:24:58 UTC 22093783 Ms. Laura Borst [Signature #88] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21726601?utm_medium=rss ECT causes brain damage and it should be banned.

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:23:06 UTC 21726601 Bryan Jara [Signature #87] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21238614?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 Apr 2017 02:00:03 UTC 21238614 Mrs. Janice Banks [Signature #86] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21177002?utm_medium=rss Sun, 12 Mar 2017 11:43:04 UTC 21177002 JACQUELINE PLATTEN [Signature #85] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21175331?utm_medium=rss Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:47:19 UTC 21175331 Ms Anonymous [Signature #84] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21160303?utm_medium=rss Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:59:14 UTC 21160303 Mr Jack Swindale [Signature #83] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21115285?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Mar 2017 02:20:49 UTC 21115285 Anonymous [Signature #82] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20933802?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Dec 2016 05:53:11 UTC 20933802 Henna Kevin [Signature #81] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20923583?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Dec 2016 02:32:37 UTC 20923583 mr Gen Agustsson [Signature #80] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20915054?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Nov 2016 06:00:56 UTC 20915054 Dr. Anonymous [Signature #79] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20848664?utm_medium=rss I have rights to be me

People have rights to be free

my poem is a genius

and you are a bee

I don't care if I'm famous

my life has stayed the same

]]> Tue, 1 Nov 2016 04:52:11 UTC 20848664 Mr Anonymous [Signature #78] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20835918?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 Oct 2016 03:39:56 UTC 20835918 Miss Teresa Wright [Signature #77] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20822994?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Oct 2016 06:25:41 UTC 20822994 Ms. Kaci Warble [Signature #76] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20800750?utm_medium=rss Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:11:31 UTC 20800750 Aaron Gomori [Signature #75] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20798784?utm_medium=rss Why this "treatment" is still used today is beyond reason and logic. Anyone who performs this on another human being should be sentenced to jail-time.

]]> Fri, 14 Oct 2016 01:48:27 UTC 20798784 ms. brenda denno [Signature #74] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20357957?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:54:07 UTC 20357957 Anonymous [Signature #73] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20254059?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:05:43 UTC 20254059 Mr. Jose Ovidio Perez Morel [Signature #72] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20218203?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Aug 2016 03:10:09 UTC 20218203 Ms. Karen Dawe [Signature #71] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20140781?utm_medium=rss Electroshock torture should be banned and taken out of the criminal code so it is not confused or infused or superimposed as a punishment.

]]> Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:20:31 UTC 20140781 Ms Donnalena McCarthy [Signature #70] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20139389?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:57:00 UTC 20139389 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #69] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20078459?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:42:50 UTC 20078459 Ms Dolores Bonanno [Signature #68] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20052774?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:06:11 UTC 20052774 Tammy Galinec [Signature #67] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20026172?utm_medium=rss My Mom suffered through this barbaric treatment for most of her life...she died at age 47. This treatment ruined her life, it did nothing to help her and the medications forced upon caused so much damage. Psychiatry is horrible and the Powers that these Dr.'s hold is unbelievable....I have a petition on here for my own son...who after having a flu and insomnia was put on anti psychotics...we have been fighting for over two months to get him off these forced meds which he reacted so badly to after 3 doses he was taken to emergency. They refused to take him off and there are errors in his file right from day one. I have seen such trauma from this whole system...I can not believe in this day and age it is still going on!

]]> Tue, 31 May 2016 02:16:38 UTC 20026172 John Andrews [Signature #66] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17228453?utm_medium=rss ECT is nothing less than electrocution of the head. Studies have shown that passing an electrical current through the brain can cause stroke (brain bleeding), the death of millions of cells at a time - which can cause cognitive impairment, and can even damage the connection between the frontal lobes (the part of the brain that gives you your personality, creativity, ability to feel emotion, etc.) and the rest of the brain. It may appear to make depressed people feel happier, but in reality, their brain is damaged to the point where they don't have the ability to feel emotion anymore, let alone depression! This is not a psychiatric treatment, it is barbarity, and it has to be banned, now! Before more people are electrocuted through the head and left to live with the affects of permanent brain damage for the rest of their lives.

]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2014 06:34:58 UTC 17228453 Mr Patrick Slavin [Signature #65] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16654944?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:49:19 UTC 16654944 Aimee Williams [Signature #64] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15938616?utm_medium=rss Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:36:55 UTC 15938616 Ms Bree E [Signature #63] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15934738?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 Sep 2013 06:57:49 UTC 15934738 Anonymous [Signature #62] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15934282?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 Sep 2013 03:51:05 UTC 15934282 Miss Althea Valentine [Signature #61] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15932253?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:05:26 UTC 15932253 Miss Rebecca Lister [Signature #60] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15932149?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 Sep 2013 03:07:13 UTC 15932149 Ms Mickey Wondrland [Signature #59] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15931976?utm_medium=rss It is a disgrace that at this point in the medical field this old gruesome ways are still being used. We are human beings and we have rights. Especially the right for respect.

]]> Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:16:39 UTC 15931976 Gaynor Atkins [Signature #58] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15931968?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:08:54 UTC 15931968 jennifer bozoky [Signature #57] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15931922?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:31:24 UTC 15931922 Ms Angeles Leguiza [Signature #56] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15931910?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:26:12 UTC 15931910 Tracey Lee Gallant [Signature #55] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15931124?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 Sep 2013 05:35:24 UTC 15931124 Ms Ella Noone [Signature #54] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15928869?utm_medium=rss Stop this madness

]]> Sat, 28 Sep 2013 06:59:22 UTC 15928869 Mr Jonathan Evans [Signature #53] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15656862?utm_medium=rss I want my memory back that I lost from ECT!

]]> Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:02:49 UTC 15656862 Mr. John Morley [Signature #52] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14038877?utm_medium=rss I am amazed this petition has so few signatures on it.

How can people be stupid enough to not notice what is bad about electricuting people's heads without trial by jury. Some people deserve it but we shouldn't let the government decide who gets it without us double checking.

The idea of it being medicinal Hmmm. Interesting idea. I wouldn't trust you to fix my laptop by zapping it with a car battery until the fault goes.

If it cures anything it is a baby with the bathwater kind of cure.

Nobody would volunteer for it. So we need to regard it as what it is. A punishment. A very severe one.

My website is
http://privatemail.fastmail.fm

My email address is privatemail@fastmail.fm

I am on the run and have been since August 7th 2012. Thisis one likely fate for me if caught.

I am an example of why society needs to take this stuff more seriously than it does.

I am innocent and have a diagnosis based on malicious defamation.

My petition url is...
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/admit-to-the-case-against-john-morley-being-malicious-s.html

Regards

John Morley

]]> Sat, 3 Nov 2012 07:25:02 UTC 14038877 Mr Mario Sanchez [Signature #51] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13584846?utm_medium=rss I am very disappointed in the way mental health want to cure people with chronic depression without taking responsibility of the implication of this "Frankenstein" therapy have on the individual. It is inhuman and disgusting to see that in a democratic, developed and civilise society like Australia psychiatrists are still using this middle ages method to address mental health problem which most of them are related to individual lifestyle, drugs and alcohol.

]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:03:14 UTC 13584846 Ms Anonymous [Signature #50] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13582602?utm_medium=rss Well i believe that this sort therapy has to be banned as it is a violation of HUMAN RIGHTS.
This ECT is know to damage 1000 of brain cells and it not actually helping the patients it is actually killing them slowly.

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:05:18 UTC 13582602 Miss Shannon Wanderlust [Signature #49] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13402757?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:26:53 UTC 13402757 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #48] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13397348?utm_medium=rss Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:35:18 UTC 13397348 mr Augustin Vaschi [Signature #47] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12636269?utm_medium=rss - ECT is a medical practice that nobody knows how it works ( but still in place)
- few long term impact and community studies about ECT treatment. Most of them are clinical studies.
- there are studies on animals that showed clearly that ECT produce brain damage. Why for human they might be different?
- why the majority of ECT patients are old women who, any way, represent an vulnerable group who have poor capacities of self advocacy
- poor and inaccurate official information for ECT candidate

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:55:45 UTC 12636269 Ms Anonymous [Signature #46] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12577078?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:49:34 UTC 12577078 Miss Crystal Samson [Signature #45] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11214927?utm_medium=rss ECT is disgusting and ruins people's lives

]]> Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:53:53 UTC 11214927 Mr Anonymous [Signature #44] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11062010?utm_medium=rss ECT is absolutely unnecessary, its the lazy way to "treat" someone and should be banned as the barbaric regression of human rights that it is.

]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:14:36 UTC 11062010 ms Anonymous [Signature #43] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10704222?utm_medium=rss Involuntary psychiatric treatment not only takes place in hospitals it's also in the community under orders of the court, decisions regarding the patients treatment can not only be taken out of the patients hands but also the next of kins, this treatment can include ECT. Please help protect some of the most vulnerable members of our society and stop this practice.

]]> Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:13:10 UTC 10704222 Ms Anonymous [Signature #42] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10148235?utm_medium=rss Electro-Convulsive 'Therapy' is brutal abuse of people with mental illnesses such as depression and psychotic disorders. It is not the patients fault that medication hasn't worked for them, they should not be attacked by violence, or 'therapy' because of this. Involuntary ECT is also the most disgusting thing I have come across in a while, get a trusted, appointed (by the patient) family member or partner to make the decision not doctors that don't care about the person.

]]> Sun, 3 Apr 2011 01:01:05 UTC 10148235 Mr D Peters [Signature #41] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8483681?utm_medium=rss The equivalent of ramming a screwdriver into a computer

]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:05:49 UTC 8483681 miss claudia peredo [Signature #40] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8394585?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:50:39 UTC 8394585 Ms Dawne Sutcliffe [Signature #39] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7074437?utm_medium=rss Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:37:43 UTC 7074437 Mrs Leanne Pati [Signature #38] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7074180?utm_medium=rss Thu, 4 Mar 2010 05:28:59 UTC 7074180 Mrs Heather Baker [Signature #37] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6779631?utm_medium=rss I had ECT in 2003 and now I cant even remember my childerens birthdays, my phone number, what I have just done, It has made me feel so isolated I rearly leave the house, I was told it would only last for a couple of weeks at most!
I have gone from being as sharp as a pin to having to write everything down

]]> Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:36:09 UTC 6779631 Julia Blayse [Signature #36] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6742176?utm_medium=rss Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:41:37 UTC 6742176 Mr Andrew Dolby [Signature #35] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6341730?utm_medium=rss it shows that we still haven't strayed too far from the cave

]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:05:11 UTC 6341730 Mrs Sally Kate Urso [Signature #34] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6341639?utm_medium=rss My mum under went this procedure and i want it BANNED it breaks my heart to know it is still used in this day and age... ban it please

]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:32:06 UTC 6341639 Dr. Karen Chantry [Signature #33] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4941883?utm_medium=rss There is well documented evidence that ECT causes cognitive impairments and memory deficits. It should not be used with anyone. ECT with children is obscene, and ECT with the elderly is obscene. It is bad enough it is used with anyone, but with the elderly and children, this is akin to a criminal charge of aggravated assualt.

]]> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:21:28 UTC 4941883 Mrs Jane Nash [Signature #32] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4254494?utm_medium=rss Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:59:43 UTC 4254494 Mrs Casey Gates [Signature #31] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4029196?utm_medium=rss My sister had this treatment given to her for many many years over her life time. And IT must be stopped. Back in the days she was given it they didnt even sedate the patients.

]]> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:30:50 UTC 4029196 Mr. Colin Eadie [Signature #30] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3608196?utm_medium=rss Ban ECT. Also, ban drugs, implants, excessive force, blood tests, solitary confinement, poor quality food. Increase knowledge, only consentual treatment, psychiatric accountability, open discussion about mental health, invite mental patients into discussions with politicians, doctors, lawyers, and make sure there are more patients and their families than professionals.
No antipsychotic drugs. Health Freedom.
Colin David Eadie

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 02:00:50 UTC 3608196 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #29] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2451905?utm_medium=rss Experimenting with a purely subjective treatment which may or may not work, on human beings is against human rights !

]]> Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:49:09 UTC 2451905 Ms Kate Rumbelow [Signature #28] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2216250?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Aug 2007 01:15:39 UTC 2216250 Mrs Tracy Anscombe [Signature #27] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2152862?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:38:52 UTC 2152862 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #26] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2150549?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:03:25 UTC 2150549 Mr Gavin Langmaid [Signature #25] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2143088?utm_medium=rss Hi, It's the 21st century....right?

]]> Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:19:11 UTC 2143088 Miss Lisa Yardney [Signature #24] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2141419?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:28:23 UTC 2141419 Mr Stirling Campbell [Signature #23] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2140137?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:09:13 UTC 2140137 Ms Angela Mays [Signature #22] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2140024?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:59:33 UTC 2140024 Mrs Teresa Woodworth [Signature #21] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2139901?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:39:33 UTC 2139901 Mr John Huntley [Signature #20] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2139419?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:24:54 UTC 2139419 Mr Dion Szer [Signature #19] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2139397?utm_medium=rss This is an issue that cannot be ignored. It needs to be addressed in order to prevent damaging many lives.

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:13:13 UTC 2139397 Mrs Simone Surgeoner [Signature #18] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2139097?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:36:58 UTC 2139097 Amanda Moore [Signature #17] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2138969?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:21:47 UTC 2138969 Miss karen kirkpatrick [Signature #16] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2138938?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:02:40 UTC 2138938 Mr Shaun Rees [Signature #15] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2138935?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:59:53 UTC 2138935 Anita Veer [Signature #14] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2137711?utm_medium=rss E.C.T is down right CRUEL!!

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:59:38 UTC 2137711 Mr Reilly Phanes [Signature #13] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2137529?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:46:19 UTC 2137529 mr Andrew Lewis [Signature #12] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2137372?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:45:26 UTC 2137372 ms elisabeth rodda [Signature #11] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2137231?utm_medium=rss stop using electro shock therapy on already seriously ill people. Always bear in mind that its best not to be listed in the 'bad books' by the Human Rights organisations.

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:43:23 UTC 2137231 Ms Greer Campbell [Signature #10] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2136995?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:18:26 UTC 2136995 miss jodie welch [Signature #9] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2136932?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:57:23 UTC 2136932 Mrs Portia Mereki [Signature #8] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2136904?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:48:22 UTC 2136904 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #7] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2136855?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:22:43 UTC 2136855 miss yolanda barker [Signature #6] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2136854?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:22:12 UTC 2136854 Ms Cassie Szer [Signature #5] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2136826?utm_medium=rss ECT is now being used as a first line treatment instead of a last resort treatment to maximise profits. Each "shock" gives the hospitals over $1000. We need to stop sacrificing peoples brains for money..

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:02:09 UTC 2136826 MR Klaus Frohlich [Signature #4] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2133636?utm_medium=rss ect is stoneage treatment in the 21st century.

]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:58:34 UTC 2133636 Mr Anonymous [Signature #3] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2125946?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:41:15 UTC 2125946 Mr Michael Guillesser [Signature #2] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2125366?utm_medium=rss ECT has no place in contemporary medicine. It's progression throughout the years has shown big monetary benefits to the the Doctors, Private Hospitals/Clinics and Manufacturers but little benefit to patients and many cases of detriment.

]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:59:46 UTC 2125366 Anonymous [Signature #1] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2124969?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:55:02 UTC 2124969