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When doctors recommend extreme treatments for your teenager

The psychiatrist wants to try electroshock therapy on my seventeen-year-old and I know she is suffering but this feels like giving up on her brain.

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Parents face impossible choices when conventional treatments fail and radical interventions become the only remaining hope.

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