Hospitalized more than 30 times, drugged into submission and given electroshock treatments, blistered by an illness that strips its victims of their mental moorings and leaves them hapless _ and often homeless _ Larson has endured a staggering amount of loss in her own life.
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The head nurse during the delivery convinces the doctor to forcibly subject Aura's mother to electroshock treatment against her will, hoping that it would erase all memory of the blotched delivery / death of her son, allowing for the staff to cover up their causing her child's death.
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LGBT people were widely diagnosed as diseased with the potential for being cured, thus were regularly " treated " with castration, lobotomies, pudic nerve surgery, and electroshock treatment . so transferring the meaning of " fruitcake ", nutty, to someone who is deemed insane, or crazy, may have seemed rational at the time and many apparently believed that LGBT people were mentally unsound.
