This single panel comic shows me going under for ECT with my head wrapped in the ECT recording strip from my last session. My skull is removed to show a brain connected to electrodes and wreathed in spatters and disorder. My mouth is covered by the strip of paper which record my seizure with red squiggly lines.
To Be Continued; My First ECT remembers:
After my first session of Electroconvulsive Therapy
The smiling psychiatrist said
You give good seizure.
I didn’t know what to say
Have I found my superpower?
My First ECT; To Be Continued Angela J Williams Digital watercolour
Angela J Williams, PhD, is a writer, illustrator and story teller from Wollongong, Australia.
She is the author of Snakes and Ladders: a memoir and host of the Deboning Power Podcast.
A writer, thinker and yeller, Angela Williams is mildly notorious for seeing problems and pointing them out. She’s tussled with Fred Nile in the Sydney Morning Herald, taken academia to task in the Guardian’s Anonymous Academic, gone to Crikey about the treatment of mentally ill women in prison, and most recently blown the whistle on dangerous risks in her (former) charity workplace. Angela does one thing really well – find problems and yell about them.
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