This is what happens when medical professionals don't believe women.
Courtney* is lying on a gurney in a white room, a blanket covering her body, an IV pinched into her arm. A nurse is sticking electrodes to the side of her head, like stickers. Soon they’ll send electric currents into her brain, inducing a seizure.Now she’s undergoing electroconvulsive therapy, a last-ditch treatment for severe depression that will attempt to shock her out of years of intractable symptoms.
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