Julie Greene

Julie Greene received ECT when she was 39 year old. As soon as she saw the damage it caused, she created a plan to escape the Mental Health System and all the harmful psychiatric diagnoses she had been given. In May, 2014, she left the U.S. and moved to Uruguay for the next two years. She is now back in the U.S. and is now fully employed and participates in antipsychiatry activism and running road races. She is currently finishing up a book called Life After Lithium.

Telling My Electroshock Story So No More Will Be Harmed

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As a young child I loved to write. Even before I took my first college poetry class in 1980, I enjoyed writing in my diary and writing letters to people all over the world. I enjoyed reading diaries of people who lived long ago. Every year I traveled with my family to my grandparents’ home … Read more

An ECT Survivor Speaks Out—Psychiatrist Claimed Damage from ECT was Due to an Underlying Mental Disorder

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The one thing I wanted to do, when it was all over, was to tell my story. I wasn’t sure what the story was, because I didn’t know, even when I put pen to paper, that ECT had caused the mysterious “illness” that had suddenly befallen me in 1996, when I was 39 years old. … Read more