Rachel Hope says her childhood was the stuff of nightmares . She weathered childhood trauma but suffered breakdowns as an adult . Before taking Hope 's call , Mithoefer had spent nearly three years navigating the federal bureaucracy to win approval for his small experiment , designed to test a simple question : She reached out to a South Carolina psychiatrist in 2005 . He diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder and prescribed medication for it, which she took until 2011 when she stopped taking it.
Rachel Hope says her childhood was the stuff of nightmares . She weathered childhood trauma but suffered breakdowns as an adult . She reached out to a South Carolina psychiatrist in 2005 . He diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder and prescribed medication for it, which she took until 2011 when she stopped taking it.