'Radical acceptance' helps 12-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome, OCD

This is Normal: A podcast about youth mental health

Jesse Pennington-Cross has Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. She's 12 years old, and her family has struggled to find help for her, at one point trying an intensive behavioral modification program that involved having Jesse wear a timer on her ankle. It made her miserable, and her family too. "It was heartbreaking," her mother said, "to realize I've been treating my child kind of like a trainable dog." Today, they're trying a new approach. They call it "radical acceptance." Read more about youth mental health: www.postcrescent.com/kidsincrisis Sign up for our newsletter: www.postcrescent.com/featured-newsletter/kids_in_crisis/