Most people think life in mental hospitals is scary based on media portrayals of psychotic patients and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Media often shows patients in poor condition and ECT depicted as two nurses forcibly shocking awake, screaming patients. However, ECT in reality is administered under anesthesia and aims to effectively treat certain mental illnesses.

3. Most of people ( educated and non educated ) think that life inside mental illness hospitals is horror and scary. It is the effect of media that shows psychotic patients in disgusting appearance and doing unbelievable acts. It is also shows the role of electroconvulsive therapy in a scary scenario , when two or more huge male nurses pull the patient , then connect him to an electrical device , while he is fully awake , which make him scream with a loud voice , cry and then lose his consciousness because of the severe pain he got.

10. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfoforall/treatments/ect.aspx Psychiatric mental health nursing textbook for Mary C. Townsend http://nursingcrib.com/nursing-notes-reviewer/psychiatric-mental-health-nursing/electroconvulsive-therapy-ect/