I worked on an ECT unit in the mid 1990s. The patients definitely DID go into spasm, there wouldn’t been any need to secure an airway immediately prior to treatment if there wasn’t any spasm!
The film ‘Out of the Shadows’ was part of a community project done in partnership with Huddersfield University and the Thackray Museum, looking at the history of High Royds Hospital. The film contains interviews with ex-patients and staff from the hospital and we didn’t censor or edit any of their comments or thoughts/feelings as it is very much about their own personal experiences of living and/or working there and their stories were told from their own perspective. We did a follow up project with ‘Time to Change’ where more interviews were filmed and stories captured and again allowed participants to speak freely about their own experiences, positive and negative ones. Part of our ethos is to give communities and individuals a ‘voice’ in documenting the history of Leeds in all its diverse aspects.
My Grandmother was admitted in 1927 for which it is called postnatal psychosis now. She was there for 4 years & died at 29 from Tuberculosis which she caught there. There were no drugs for treatment then & it must have been a terrible time for here. I got her records from the hospital when I was doing my family tree & found out a lot about her. Previously I knew hardly anything as mental illness was not talked about then & even my mother knew hardly anything & what she did know she would not share.
The people that were in there needed more help than I needed and I thank my Indian doctor for turning my around. The yelling and my other public shenanigans are non existent
it should never be forgotten that just across the road from this site was a really big fish and chip restaurant, if you were lucky or unlucky as it maybe you might have seen a rolls royce in the fish and chip car park in the 90s, and a chap with white hair having his fish and chips collected, waving at kids, and anyone else. Do you know who that was ? Yes savile. Seemed he liked the hospital and the fish and chips on the way home. As a last point, I think someone should find out the ratio of teenage females to males in the 80s, 90s, who were incarcerated here, knowing what I know, I think I have a good idea.
Harry Ramsden’s and yes I agree with you 100%. I worked at Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the 1990s and I believe that vile pig preyed on many many more than we even know about now. He was all over the damn place 🤨
I worked on an ECT unit in the mid 1990s. The patients definitely DID go into spasm, there wouldn’t been any need to secure an airway immediately prior to treatment if there wasn’t any spasm!
The film ‘Out of the Shadows’ was part of a community project done in partnership with Huddersfield University and the Thackray Museum, looking at the history of High Royds Hospital. The film contains interviews with ex-patients and staff from the hospital and we didn’t censor or edit any of their comments or thoughts/feelings as it is very much about their own personal experiences of living and/or working there and their stories were told from their own perspective.
We did a follow up project with ‘Time to Change’ where more interviews were filmed and stories captured and again allowed participants to speak freely about their own experiences, positive and negative ones. Part of our ethos is to give communities and individuals a ‘voice’ in documenting the history of Leeds in all its diverse aspects.
My Grandmother was admitted in 1927 for which it is called postnatal psychosis now. She was there for 4 years & died at 29 from Tuberculosis which she caught there. There were no drugs for treatment then & it must have been a terrible time for here. I got her records from the hospital when I was doing my family tree & found out a lot about her. Previously I knew hardly anything as mental illness was not talked about then & even my mother knew hardly anything & what she did know she would not share.
The people that were in there needed more help than I needed and I thank my Indian doctor for turning my around. The yelling and my other public shenanigans are non existent
it should never be forgotten that just across the road from this site was a really big fish and chip restaurant, if you were lucky or unlucky as it maybe you might have seen a rolls royce in the fish and chip car park in the 90s, and a chap with white hair having his fish and chips collected, waving at kids, and anyone else. Do you know who that was ? Yes savile. Seemed he liked the hospital and the fish and chips on the way home. As a last point, I think someone should find out the ratio of teenage females to males in the 80s, 90s, who were incarcerated here, knowing what I know, I think I have a good idea.
Harry Ramsden’s and yes I agree with you 100%. I worked at Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the 1990s and I believe that vile pig preyed on many many more than we even know about now. He was all over the damn place 🤨
Your comment made me laugh i used to live down bradford road not far frrom menston he used to go to dunnies cafe in otley.. 👍🏻
Mother was in there 1971
wow 2020
I have seen people who were very very depressed who got a lot better from ect treatment.