I apologize in advance for being flip. Today's chapter is a really hard read and yet all I could think of was my very first pop culture exposure to ECT, the terrifying movie Return to Oz. Somehow a bunch of adults thought that making a movie where Dorothy undergoes shock therapy would be GREAT for kids! Anyway, all this to say, ECT is a horror no matter where you meet it- in a movie theatre age 5 or in a beautiful novel at the age of 17 or 40+.
Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade #CantReduceThisChapterToQuips #EstherIsNotGettingBetter #YouDontJustDecideToNotBeMentallyIllMOM #FactitiousArtificialSham #YoullNeverGetAnywhereLikeThat 23h
ravenlee My sister was watching that movie while babysitting me. I must have been 6 or 7. I wanted to do what she was doing, so she let me watch. 😳 I hid at the foot of the bed most of the movie, because I couldn‘t watch it but was scared to go to my room alone. Still traumatized! 14h
ElizaMarie I missed this trauma experience growing up (didn't see the movie/or heard of it before this post) 13h
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Andrea313 @ravenlee YUP. I don't remember being particularly afraid when I first saw it (I was SO young) and was mostly confused, wondering why bad things were happening to Dorothy. Then I saw it again years later and had a full-on WTF moment. My older brother was afraid of the Wheelers for ages, though. 😂 12h
Andrea313 @ElizaMarie OMG you should watch it now. You'd probably still have the trauma experience, it's some if the most bizarre shit ever. 12h
ravenlee I don‘t even remember much, but the lady who collects heads from girls who have nice hair? or something. It freaked me out in a big way, as a girl with long brown braids like Dorothy. 6h
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