My Mother’s Shock Therapy Erased her Memory of my Childhood Abuse
Shock, shŏk, noun: (1) a sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
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9 min readJun 20, 2023
On a colourless late-August morning, just shy of turning twenty-one, my eldest son places the last of his belongings into his car. From the kitchen window I watch as he takes one final glance back toward the house that carries…