Can popular culture stop demonizing electroconvulsive therapy - ECT - it's an effective treatment for severe mental illness these days not a fucking torture device
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True, but as a skeptic I also think skeptics need to avoid falling into over generalisation ourselves. Some people do benefit from ECT. But abuse of ECT hasn't 100% stopped, not even in Oz. Also some small % who eventually benefit find it very distressing initially.
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These points might not need adding if we had excellent, equitable mental health care for all who need it, but we're a far way from that yet, so there are quite varied patient experiences of ECT out there.
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