Erase and Start Over

The resurfacing memories of a woman with PTSD.


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Mental Health in America

Eleven years before Etan Patz went missing from Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, three-year-old Jo Bautista and her little sister were kidnapped from the Bronx in 1968. There was no hue and cry. No nationwide search. Her face was never on a milk carton.

Thankfully for her family, she did not suffer little Etan’s fate, and was eventually found alive after 18 years. But damage had been done, and it would be another 20 years before she could fully remember what had happened and find peace.

“Erase and Start Over” is the story of a middle-aged single-parent’s journey through resurfacing memories of a violent past and into the world of 21st century mental illness and treatment.