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shock therapy

noun as in treatment of psychotic states with electrical shock

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The Democrats and the so-called Resistance are celebrating how the courts and civil society organizations appear to be blunting Trump’s ‘shock and awe” and shock therapy campaign against American democracy and the American people.

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Trump’s shock therapy treatment is having the opposite effect: the patient is getting much sicker and suffering greatly, pleading for relief.

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As has been widely documented, this shock therapy both directly and indirectly caused an increase in alcoholism, suicides, heart attacks, psychological stress and other negative health outcomes in those countries and across the region.

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When Milei assumed the presidency, he promised shock therapy, devaluing the peso by 50% and cutting the number of government ministries by half.

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Emma was kept away from her children for two years and received endless forms of electric shock therapy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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