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Jane Ratcliffe
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·Mar 9, 2019

Nobody Believed How Sick I Was, Except My Dad

My father knew best—and stood by me until I got the care I needed — Shortly after I was born, my mother was hospitalized and received daily doses of shock treatment. She had what would now be diagnosed as postpartum depression, but in the early ’60s, much of female psychological distress was still called hysteria. My father is a kind and intelligent man, so the…

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Nobody Believed How Sick I Was, Except My Dad
Nobody Believed How Sick I Was, Except My Dad
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6 min read

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