Sylvia Platt is a guest editor ship at Mademoiselle magazine in 1950. She had kind of a bad experience there and ended up cutting her legs to like see if she had the stomach to commit suicide. And then she had temp suicide in 1953 by like crawling under her mother's house and taking sleeping pills. Now she was not found, but she did like come to three days after that and then spent six months in therapy. The book actually has two instances of ECT one that goes really terribly and is really traumatic.