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Title: Justina Pelletier Goes Home After a Year in Psych Hospital
Post by: riky on May 06, 2014, 09:00:24 AM
Justina Pelletier Goes Home After a Year in Psych Hospital

For the last 13 months a Boston judge has sided with Boston Children's, which has been treating Justina Pelletier for "persistent and severe somatic symptom disorder," a psychiatric condition that causes a person to experience physical pain for which no known medical explanation can be found. But next week, Justina will she will be moved to a facility in Connecticut in a plan to reunite the teen with her parents.

Source: Justina Pelletier Goes Home After a Year in Psych Hospital (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/justina-pelletier-home-conn-year-mass-psych-hospital/story?id=23594343)