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The Descent and the Martha Mitchell Effect \*\* Consists of Spoilers \*\*. "The Descent opens with a bloody bang and never lets up," proclaims the blurb on the DVD cover. That bloody bang, probably, would be when lead character Sarah loses both her husband and young little girl in a gruesome automobile accident just minutes into the film. The motion picture then jumps cuts to one year later; Sarah and a gaggle of female pals are in forested Appalachia for a team spelunking exploration. These friends are cognizant of the horrific injury Sarah's suffered, and hope the experience will be therapeutic. horror She's still rattled, though-- she wakes from problems of the crash gasping, jumps at the slightest sound, is never ever at simplicity and constantly a bit suspicious. As the group discovers themselves in a network of caverns and caves two miles below the Earth's surface, Sarah cannot assist but notice things the others do not, like the sound of muffled voices or quick glimpses of shadows dashing past. Her girlfriends are more worried with enjoying themselves, and concern her misgivings as just techniques of the mind. She's been through a lot, they think to themselves; we'll forgive her if she's gone a little crazy. Rattled. Distressed. However hardly crazed-- those weren't odd plays of light or easy ambient noises keeping Sarah on edge. The ladies were being hunted. In psychiatric circles, it is not unknown for a client to tell unlikely tales that would seem to warrant a diagnosis of being delusional. But often-- on even more occasions than lots of mental health experts would like to confess-- those evident delusions astoundingly show to be true, and the diagnosis dead wrong. Some hypochondriacs actually do have chronic ailments, and there are those amongst the paranoid who are genuinely being seen. This type of sensation is called the Martha Mitchell Result. Students of Americana need to recognize with Martha Beal Mitchell. As the wife of the Attorney General of the United States throughout the Nixon years, Martha initially made a name for herself as an outspoken (and often times drunk) critic of the liberal left. Richard M. Nixon himself appeared to value that this supposed "Mouth of the South" was able to galvanize his conservative base. Relations in between the 2 took an icy turn, however, when Nixon slighted Martha personally-- and she retaliated by phoning the press with tales of scandal within the administration. It wasn't difficult for her political enemies to paint poor Martha as delusional; she did have problems with drink, after all, and had not been her polemic on the talk program circuit a bit like that of a loose cannon? Reports vary as to the lengths the administration went to in order to challenge her-- the tale mentioned usually is that she was greatly sedated by force and shipped off to the sanitarium. There wasn't time enough to sign her in, nevertheless, before the Watergate scandal broke. Martha Mitchell was certainly vociferous, and quite most likely an alcoholic. However as the unraveling of the Nixon presidency would prove, she was not, in truth, delusional. If in daily life you run into a guy sporting a tinfoil hat to obstruct those attempting to manage his mind, it's most likely a safe bet that the individual you're handling suffers from misconceptions. But as the saying goes, be careful not to jump to conclusions. Far from being mad, Martha Mitchell's accusations of government corruption ended up being precisely the mark. So, must you ever before are spelunking below the mountains of Appalachia, do not be too fast to dismiss your seemingly overly suspicious cohort-- if The Descent is any sign, there really might be monsters afoot.