Day: September 28, 2020

Sep 28
Trainee Nurse Suffered 12 Years of Electroshock Therapy for Being LGBT+

A former trainee nurse has spoken of suffering through 12 years of electroshock therapy and a concoction of drugs, for being LGBT+. Joan Bellingham, now 68, has spoken at a Royal Commission in New Zealand about her experience during the 1970’s when she first started training as a nurse at the Burwood Hospital in Christchurch. […]