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Why parental guilt drives compulsive medical research

I research treatments obsessively at 2am reading medical journals I barely understand because I cannot stand the feeling that I am not doing enough to save my child.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The illusion of control through information gathering provides temporary relief from the helplessness of watching a child suffer.

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