Sadie Sutton was first hospitalized for depression when she was 13. At 15, after four hospitalizations and outpatient therapy at Stanford University, she was sent to an inpatient program at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. There, she completed 14 weeks of dialectical behavior therapy (also known as D.B.T. As the United States faces a post-pandemic mental health emergency, we need immediate reform. As with medications, behavioral health treatments for teenagers must be required to be proved safe and effective before they can be sold.

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Persons: Sadie Sutton, Sutton, she’d, ”, can’t Organizations: Stanford University, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Chrysalis Locations: Bay, Montana, United States