Rehab counselor + ECT survivor (116 Tx) + co-author 8 peer-reviewed ECT experience articles | Enforce FDA 2018 ECT order + mandate post-ECT rehab | #AuditECT
San Diego, CA, USA
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Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐓: 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐘 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐀 𝐃𝐑𝐔𝐆 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘.
Lauren Bennett, the 36-year-old singer whose voice featured on LMFAO's global hit Party Rock Anthem, has been the subject of an inquest following her death in May 2026.
Her father, Richard Bennett, previously revealed that Lauren had suffered a severe reaction to prescribed medication months before her death. The family had rallied around her, trying to support her through an incredibly difficult period.
At the recent inquest, it was heard that Lauren had continued to report distress about the effects of prescribed medication. She had been receiving specialist mental health care and had met with mental health services just days before her death.
Reports also indicate that she had stopped taking some medication weeks before she died.
And this brings us to an issue that Stephen's Voice has repeatedly challenged.
We are deeply frustrated by the way medication-related harm can be overlooked when toxicology results are presented as though they tell the whole story.
“A toxicology report prepared after her death found 'nothing of toxicological significance’”. Yet she was on numerous prescribed drugs before her death, with noted reactions.
The fact that nothing of significance was found in Lauren's system does not answer the questions about what she had been prescribed, what adverse reactions she experienced, what happened when treatment was changed or stopped, and what she continued to suffer in the weeks and months that followed.
A drug does not have to be detectable in someone's bloodstream for its effects to continue.
We know that prescribed medication can cause prolonged and sometimes devastating effects, including protracted withdrawal, akathisia and persistent sexual dysfunction (PSSD). For some people, the consequences can continue for weeks, months and even years after medication has been discontinued.
This is precisely why medication history matters. We cannot keep reducing complex cases to a toxicology result and overlooking the lived experience of the person who was harmed.
We cannot keep treating the absence of a drug in the body at the time of death as though it somehow excludes the possibility of medication-related suffering beforehand.
And we cannot continue to ignore the accounts of people and families who have witnessed profound changes following prescribed medication.
We are not claiming to know what caused Lauren's death. That is not our place. But we believe the questions surrounding her medication history, reported adverse reactions and subsequent suffering deserve serious attention.
Lauren was a daughter, a wife, a mother and a talented musician. She deserved to be heard, believed and properly supported. Her family deserved answers. Our thoughts are with everyone who loved Lauren 💜
At Stephen's Voice, we will continue to speak for those whose lives have been devastated by prescribed medication, and for the families left trying to make sense of what happened.
#StephensVoice #PrescribedHarm
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
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VERY HELPFUL PODCAST!
“Write out what went well & Why?”
way better than any gratitude list.
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
Having worked in a clinic that supported patients coming off taking psych meds as prescribed, we had several patients who confided that withdrawing from Benzos, or withdrawing from antidepressants, (or both), was excruciating compared to their kicking Heroin or Cocaine in the 80's and 90's.
Our clinical director would always respond, "Who do you think is more capable of creating a harmful substanc and speaking of it in a way that convinces people it's really safe: A high school dropout making drugs in their garage or a PhD holding biochemist in a fully functional lab?"
Having taken 17 years of prescriptions precisely as ordered, I assure you it's not the garage entrepreneur.
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Compulsory shock therapy in Scotland.
@PsychRecovery @MITUKteam @LisaTMSA @JDaviesPhD @joannamoncrieff @PGtzsche1 @BentallProf @UELPsychLondon
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
A top academic psychiatrist just wrote in JAMA Psychiatry that it's time to be "more transparent" about antipsychotics.
His points: these dopamine blockers can make people depressed and withdrawn, sap motivation, and lead to lives "diminished by a decreased experience of rewards."
We've been saying this for years.
So why now? The author consults for the company behind a new antipsychotic that doesn't block dopamine.
In my field, drug harms rarely get openly discussed until there's an incentive.
If you're on one, don't stop suddenly. Taper slowly with your prescriber.
Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
High-voltage power lines create a strong oscillating electric field. A fluorescent tube near them acts like an antenna, capacitive coupling induces a small current through the gas inside, exciting the mercury vapor and phosphor so it glows, even without wires. Ground contact =💡
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
Before I was started on psychiatric drugs as a teen, I never had a chance to really unpack what was happening in my environment, and how that was shaping the anger and despair I felt. The conclusion, in next to no time, was that I was sick– something was wrong with my brain.
That’s a fundamental part of the medicalization of human suffering — that it ultimately stems from abnormal brain chemistry.
The framing is “something’s wrong with you,” instead of “something’s happened to you.”
Deep inside me, I already had the answers. I just didn’t have the opportunity to be asked the right questions.
@BlakeMycoskie
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
Irving Kirsch obtained the full antidepressant trial data through Freedom of Information requests, including the trials the companies never published. The drugs beat placebo by an average of 1.8 points on the Hamilton scale. The UK's own threshold for clinical significance is three. The published literature had not lied. It had been curated.
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A treatment is not evidence-based if there is nothing in place to reliably replicate positive outcomes outside research settings. ECT providers should tell their patients they have no idea how to reliably give ECT optimizing therapeutic benefits while simultaneously minimizing cognitive side effects. The ECT providers should be telling families and policy makers this, too. They have literally never tested modern ECT devices in Placebo controlled trials--though these devices are 4-6x more current than the old ones. Let that sink in.
In other words, my doctors gave me and my family information to make an "informed treatment choice" based on trial data from a medical device 4-6x weaker than the Thymatron System IV.
Worse, doctors cannot guarantee that what they did to me, won't happen to someone else without dosing protocols based on safety testing using modern devices specs.
To all the psychiatrists saying "it's unethical to withhold treatment" I only have one thing to say...
It's only unethical to withhold treatment when the risks are known and the ability to reliably replicate positive outcomes is in place. The ethics of opperating a medical device which generates either 800 or 900 mA bipolar current for 8 seconds without formal subspecialty training in biophysics of electrical field disbursement or histopathology of electrical injury is far more unethical than withholding a "Treatment" that results in brainstem injury, progressive respiratory ataxia, and dysautonomia. My psychiatrist reassured my parents that ECT was the "safe and effective" "gold standard" for my catatonia without disclosing "the best way to administer ECT with regard to optimizing therapeutic benefit and simultaneously minimizing cognitive side-effects is not known." Nor did they disclose that they had no idea how to help if I was injured and that it would be our responsibility to find medical care for injury.
Perhaps we should talk about medical ethics surrounding Patient abandonment when serious adverse events require rehabilitation and ongoing medical care for injuries caused by treatment? (Before ECT, I didn't use a wheelchair, speech generating device, or ventilator. But ECT's injuries can be continuing and progressive--depending on the type of injury. Turns out microvascular ruptures leave iron deposits which rust, causing secondary injuries that just keep spreading. #AuditECT
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
We don't perfect ourselves and then come to Christ.
We come to Christ to be perfected.
President Dallin H. Oaks said to get closer, one step at a time.
A soft amen isn't the assignment.
Act.
Keep covenants.
Share Him.
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"Dr Lucy Johnstone, consultant clinical psychologist in Bristol, said: 'I have had a number of women clients who were prescribed ECT for distress related to rape or domestic abuse. This is not treatment.
'It is re-traumatisation, and it must stop.' Professor John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, said: 'Our findings show that women not only receive ECT more often but are also more likely to suffer its most damaging effects.
'These patterns cannot be dismissed as coincidence. They reflect systemic biases in psychiatry and underline the urgent need for a trauma-informed, feminist perspective on mental health care.'
He added: 'Information about sex differences in risk and outcome must be routinely given to women and their families. ECT should not be the default response to women’s suffering.'"
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Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
The psychiatric industry measures "success" by how much LESS you feel: Can't cry at your mother's funeral? Success! Don't care when your child is hurt? Treatment working! No empathy for your spouse? You're in remission!
They've redefined mental health as emotional lobotomy.
Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
The Lindsay Clancy Case...
Who’s the Bad Guy?
Over the last two weeks, the Lindsay Clancy case has erupted into a culture war.
I use that term because the debate is increasingly moving away from the facts of the case and toward one question:
Who should be held accountable?
There is a very strong argument that antidepressants induced the psychosis that led Lindsay to kill her children. Both defense and prosecution experts recognized a bipolar diagnosis. Her medical records documented worsening insomnia and mood shortly after SSRI exposure. She repeatedly texted family members that the drugs were damaging her brain. In the week before she killed her children, she was even frantically Googling whether psychiatric drugs could damage her brain.
What seems to bother many people on the right is that, if Lindsay is found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, there may be no obvious “bad guy” who goes to prison.
Three beautiful children are dead. Morally, that feels intolerable. So the reasoning becomes: someone must pay, and therefore Lindsay MUST be convicted.
I strongly disagree.
But there is a bad guy here.
The problem is that the bad guy is not one person.
It is 30 years of poor mental health leadership in the United States.
It is 30 years of doctors failing to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry’s message that mental health problems are best treated with handfuls of drugs during 20-minute, transactional visits.
For years, medical leaders allowed drug companies to sell doctors and patients the idea that depression was a serotonin imbalance that needed to be corrected with medication. That helped normalize massive antidepressant use while non-drug approaches were pushed to the side.
They also taught doctors to downplay serious drug side effects.
Dr. Jennifer Tuff’s notes reportedly described Lindsay as lacking “insight” because Lindsay believed the medications were making her worse, rather than accepting that her symptoms were simply caused by depression.
Is it any wonder, then, that her antidepressant doses continued to be increased until she became completely psychotic, despite already having two bad reactions to SSRIs in October?
In my view, this was a catastrophic failure of care.
I hate the fact that three children are dead. And I absolutely believe there should be accountability.
But convicting Lindsay of murder, if the drugs drove her into psychosis, does not fix the problem.
That is what accountability is also about: creating a deterrent against future bad behavior.
Throwing Lindsay Clancy in prison for murder is not going to prevent the next drug-induced homicide.
But turning our attention to rampant overprescribing and the minimization of these drug risks might.
Holding medical leaders accountable for doing an abysmal job of teaching doctors how to safely treat mental health conditions might.
If we really want to prevent the next tragedy, that is where the focus needs to be.
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ALT Sarah sits in her tilt-recline power wheelchair with mounted speech device in a blue BYU sweatshirt and BYU hat, maroon pants, NAVY shoes, and a ginormous smile on her face next to a classic bumper car with wood sides that was converted into a elevated 4 wheel drive.
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Controversial treatment still used on 2,500 Brits a year as survivor says it 'felt like rape' dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-…
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Sarah Price Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Vent #LDSx retweeted
A perfect headline to highlight the absurdity of using a medical procedure with no evidence-based dosing consensus standards reliably replicated across the entire population on whom it’s used. #AuditECT nitter.cf/readreadj/status/20918…
Comprehensive, balanced, account of ECT debate in @Observer
Huge regional variation in use.
Failure of ECT psychiatrists to provide research demanded by NICE.
Prof @RichardBentall: "If you don't do proper trials you end up with all sorts of dangerous stuff"
