Kitty Dukakis Shocker
Kitty Dukakis has written a book about her positive experience with electroshock therapy for treating her depression. The wife of former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis describes her 20-year long battle with drug and alcohol abuse in “Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy.” Kitty tells Newsweek that the impetus for turning to electroshock therapy was
“My son John [finding] me out cold in my room, lying in a puddle of vomit . . . Could I humiliate myself any further?” [Rubbing alcohol] tasted horrible, like fire. I tilted the bottle back and took another swig. Flame on flame . . . Next time I hit rock bottom, I . . . opted instead for mouthwash, aftershave and, of all things, nail polish remover.”
It’s pretty obvious that Kitty Dukakis would have made the best first lady ever. I once knew this guy Frank in college who mistakenly drank bong water after waking up in a puddle of his own whiskey-vomit, but Kitty makes Frank look like the Sigma Chi version of Ethel Merman. I might actually have watched a White House press conference, too, if I knew the first lady had been chowing down on Listerine and Cutex all morning.
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sonya
Whenever I hear “electroshock therapy” I think of a young Fairuza Balk about to get zapped in Return to Oz.
Sep 13th, 2006
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