DrCrypt

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   by DrCrypt 9y ago

   Yeah. I'm the author, so I'm obviously biased, but I wouldn't say the TL;DR here is about ECT either.
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   by DrCrypt 9y ago

   That's ME John, not my Dad's friend John. But yes, changing now to be clearer! Thank you!
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   by DrCrypt 9y ago

   Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm glad you found my Dad's story moving. Like a lot of things with mental illness, I think the truth about whether depression is beatable or not is more complicated than many people's n
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   by DrCrypt 9y ago

   No apologies necessary! I understand that the opening of the essay has some powerful imagery that might be triggering to people with first-hand knowledge of domestic abuse. I just wanted to make sure to set the record straight, that my Dad
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   by DrCrypt 9y ago

   I am the author. There is no undercurrent of domestic violence, glossed over or otherwise, in the article. My father had a psychotic episode once, due to a 1-in-a-million reaction he had to a misprescribed medication. My memory of this inci
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   by DrCrypt 9y ago

   Just to add some context to this post: "My Father The Werewolf" was published on PillPack's in-house web magazine, Folks, which aims to tell humanist stories about people with health conditions. Folks publishes one story a da