F**king Mental: Electro Convulsive Therapy ECT in the UK

This is essentially the second episode of Fucking Mental, a kind of spinoff from Walk A Mile in My Shoes, where I explore some of the remarkable shortcomings in Mental Health Services in the UK today.

Here are some of the links I used in making this episode 

Professor John Read's thoughts on ECT after a meta analysis of the data

The Daily Mail's article on the lack of information given to patients prior to being given ECT

The Royal College of Psychiatry's Information Page on ECT

The Mind page on the possible short and long term side effects of ECT

There's more - look up Professor John Read and ECT for further links

Here's a blatant plug for what I consider to be the first episode of 'Fucking Mental' where I talk about my belief that the implementation of the new categorisation system (The International Classification of Diseases 11 or ICD 11) for folk labelled with personality disorder will galvanise existing institutional prejudice, deny services to thousands and cost lives.

Because I'm a bit sweary throughout, I've given this episode an explicit rating. 

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Thanks, as ever, for listening

Walk a Mile

Chris