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To: wardaddy

“If this is true it’s not funny. It often gets much worse with age and the voices get louder

A life on haloperidol is not for sissies.”


Thank you for saying so.

My brother was a schizophrenic.

Back in the early 1980s, he killed an innocent elderly man while he was under the influence of the voices and was ultimately sent to a state mental institution for the rest of his life. There is no cure for schizophrenia and some of the medicines that were available over the years caused terrible side effects and weren’t all that effective. In high school, my brother was handsome, intelligent and athletic. He served in the Army, but barely salvaged an honorable discharge because of violent behavior and drug use. He fathered a child whom our family lost track of. The strange things he did, prior to his crime, included trying to walk through the BART tunnel under the San Francisco Bay, and flying to Puerto Rico on a commercial flight— barefoot.

If Megan Fox is truly sick, my prayers go out to her, and to her loved ones. This disease really sucks and really ruins lives.


40 posted on 09/08/2009 9:51:20 AM PDT by married21
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To: married21

All the more so in that Schizophrenia is one of the few illnesses that strike in the “prime of life” (20 to 45 years old).


44 posted on 09/09/2009 12:58:40 AM PDT by Vanders9
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