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Kate Gompert in the psych ward — "Either ECT or you could just…"

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Either ECT or you could just sedate me for a month. You could do that. All I’d need is I think a month at the outside. Like a controlled coma. You could do that, if you guys want to help.

Context

Kate's second treatment proposal. She knows the feeling's duration from experience — a month at the outside — and what she's asking for is to be excused from living through it: lived time as the disease, unconsciousness as the dosage. Leans hard into depression-anhedonia, but it's the seconds-keep-coming line turned into a treatment plan.

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