One of the patients was a boy who had scratched his arms and legs raw. Unable to find a cause or a treatment that worked, doctors had referred him and his family to a psychiatrist.

其中一名患者是个男孩子，他把自己的手臂和腿都抓挠得破了皮。医生找不到病因，也没什么有效的疗法，只好将他转诊给了心理医生。

In an interview, the patient, Joshua Riegel, now 18, said, "They said I was doing it to manipulate my parents." Thus began what he calls "that weird part of my life where they thought I was mentally ill."

这位名叫乔舒亚·里格尔(Joshua Riegel)的患者现年18岁，他在接受采访时说：“他们都说我这样是故意的，目的是为了作弄我的父母。”从那时候起，他称其为“我被当成精神病的一段最诡异的人生经历”开始了。

He was 12 or 13 when the psychiatrist prescribed antidepressants, which he dutifully took for two or three years. But they brought on terrible side effects: At one point he was hospitalized with suicidal thoughts.

在他十二三岁的时候，心理医生一直给他处方抗抑郁药物，他听话地坚持服用了两三年。可这些药物带来了可怕的副作用：他一度因为自杀念头而不得不住院。

As a last resort, his parents took him from their home in Hillsville, Va., to see Dr. Yosipovitch, who was then at Wake Forest.

抱着最后一丝希望，他的父母带他离开了位于弗吉尼亚州希尔斯维尔的家，来到维克森林大学拜访当时在那里工作的杨斯波维奇博士。

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