Finding Emotional Sanity After Years of Captivity
After 18 years of being held captive, how will Jaycee Dugard break from the emotional and mental stresses that built up during that time? We talk to Benedict Carey, science reporter for The New York Times, to look at if and how a person begins to return to normalcy after years of torment.
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