I think she probably has some mental health issues independent of that, but nothing that needs fucking shock treatments. She seemed clinically depressed to me.

She was miserable enough to agree to it and couldn't come up with better options. Sadly, electro shock was not an uncommon treatment for women whose depression was exacerbated by their husbands being jerks. Happened a few times in my family. Which is maybe why I'm not more shocked by how that storyline went.

Well, there wasn't much out there for treatment of depression, was there?

I am kind of glad I didn't watch yet. My grandpa (not grandma) had shock treatments for what sounds like possibly schizophrenia and I don't really like watching shows about them. Weirdly, in his case it seemed to work. Or something did, sort of like John Nash. I think he may have still heard voices, but decided not to listen to them, as I never really knew him to seem mentally ill. My mother said that the reason we always had the radio/tv on was to drown out the voices, though, so I really don't know.

Now that I think about it, a lot of characters were kind of flailing around and doing something because it made them feel better before, even if only temporarily - Beth with the EST, Roger with the LSD. Pete retreating into his fantasy that life with Trudy in the suburbs is the problem, not being Pete Campbell. When Don's bereavement call was unsatisfactory, running into Peggy made him realize that having helped her did make him feel better, even though it allowed her to leave him, which is why he decided to help Meghan get the ad. All of them have the sore tooth of Lane's suicide to deal with (well, not Beth, but she's got other problems) and are finding ways to extract it.

Sophia,

unlike Homeland, there really isn't much to see regarding the actual shock treatment. The treatment is discussed and you see the person sometime post-treatment, but you don't see the actual treatment.

Thanks le nubian. I know it is weird but I REALLY don't like watching it.

it isn't that weird, it seems to me. I was fucked up regarding "mental hospitals" after seeing "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" as a teenager. I wanted nothing more with seeing them until I was well into adulthood.

Sadly, electro shock was not an uncommon treatment for women whose depression was exacerbated by their husbands being jerks

My reading of the situation was that Rory's depression is exacerbated by the fact that her husband reacts to it by avoiding her (and sleeping around in Manhattan), which leads to her being lonely and having affairs, which leads to him checking her into the mental hospital to have her brain erased so she'll stop cheating on him.

Suddenly Don's phone calls to Betty's therapist seem WAY less creepy and invasive.

Megan's mom with her "the world cannot support that many ballerinas" was COLD. Brrrrr.

I loved the power shot of the partners looking out from the empty 38th floor.

I loved the power shot of the partners looking out from the empty 38th floor.

Me too.