Now, you might feel that if people feel that way they should be allowed to disappear off the face of the earth. But, in fact, we know that these are signs of severe depression which can be arrested and the people brought back to normal by the use of electric therapy. But there are those within the medical profession who believe the usefulness of ECT has been overstated, and may even be unnecessarily dangerous. Joanna Moncrieff, is a senior registrar at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. A lot of junior doctors find it a very distasteful procedure to be involved in.
Patients find it both degrading and very frightening.
We ought to find alternatives. One of the alternatives is simply to look after people until they get better. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.