“Huge. I sat straight up on the sofa and I was more focused and alert than I’d been in years. It was like looking in a mirror, or having my own life put on the screen for me to observe. That little bit of distance gave me clarity and perspective, as did the fact that there were five totally sane and normal women sitting there telling me that they hadn’t been crazy – they’d been controlled and gaslighted, for the sick thrill of someone else.”
“That was the day that you saw it at last? Saw it for what it was?”
“Damn right. That was the day that I realized that no, I wasn’t crazy. I was a pawn in a game that I hadn’t even known that I was playing. Oh, I just saw it all that day: I saw that it was all a slow, deliberate, prolonged campaign to throw me off balance and make it impossible for m
