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She's Lost Control

Song · 1979 · Joy Division. Album: Unknown Pleasures

When your body stops listening ⚡

Who it's for

Joy Division drew this song from a young woman's violent epileptic seizure.

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What it is

"She's Lost Control" is a song from Joy Division's 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures. Ian Curtis drew it mainly from a young woman with epilepsy whom he met through his job at an occupational rehabilitation centre in Macclesfield, who had seizures when she came in looking for work and later died during one.

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Before you start

Heads up: Depicts a seizure.

Age: Suggested 13+

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay

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