Styron had written a piercing memoir 1O years earlier called Darkness Visible . It described an earlier struggle he had with the illness. This time, he was advised to try shock therapy. I would say my memory is somewhat better than it might have been a year ago. The therapy is more controlled now, more humane and less painful.
Seizures are shorter.
Manning got better. So did Styron. Loper did not, however. After 74 days in the hospital and 15 shock treatments, Susan reports some short-term memory loss and cannot remember her address or her phone number. But when she headed home with her fiancee recently, she said she was feeling better.