Douglas Todd: Why tell my father’s shock-therapy story?

“I have tears in my eyes as I write this to you.”
That was typical of many of the hundreds of messages I received in response to my May 26 Vancouver Sun column about my father’s shock-therapy treatments at Riverview Hospital in the 1950s and later.
It leaves me reflecting on what good might come from sharing the suffering of Harold Todd and his family in light of his many violent lithium- and electro-shock treatments, which may have caused him permanent brain damage, rende