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Mental health
fromFortune
5 days ago

500,000 people were locked in state psychiatric hospitals. Their descendants can't find out why | Fortune

Access to long-dead relatives’ mental health records is often blocked, prompting families to seek legal reforms for descendant access.
fromSlate Magazine
6 months ago

My Sisters Both Had Traumatic Pregnancies. They're Begging Me to Heed Their Warnings.

My mom had healthy pregnancies. I don't have medical information about my grandmother's pregnancies. But both my sisters had an identical poorly-understood complication, which led to intensive care unit (ICU) stays and, for one of them, a very close brush with death. Both had long recoveries, and one sister is going on two years of reduced mobility and medical monitoring. Both kids are healthy.
Parenting
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