"Well, it will always be like that," she said firmly. "You will be having shock treatments three times a week -- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday” (Plath 215-216).

I hadn’t washed my hair for three weeks, either” (Plath 127).

“because it offered greater control of when the seizure would occur. It also less risk of medical complications, including death” (Kramlinger 63).

“He next worked in a private psychiatric hospital in that city where he treated morphine addicts and found that small doses of insulin helped withdrawal” (Jones 147).

“Three times each day the nurses injected me, and about an hour after each injection they gave me a cup of sugary fruit juice and stood by, watching me drink it” (Plath 191). 

 “In July 1936 His Majesty's Stationery Office published a 61-page booklet by Dr Wilson, Hypoglycaemic Shock Treatment in Schizophrenia, which received laudatory reviews in major medical journals and rapidly ran out of print” (Jones 147).

“[Polly] walked with her red-and-white hands dropping from her wrists and her feet shuffling along the floor. The cold packs hadn’t worked; she still screamed all night until they put her on something. “It took awhile,” I said. “You walked okay when they started.” “Now I don’t,” said Polly” (Kaysen 23).

1. Psychological problems are based, in part, on faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking.
2. Psychological problems are based, in part, on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior.
3. People suffering from psychological problems can learn better ways of coping with them, thereby relieving their symptoms and becoming more effective in their lives.