Schizophrenia and the Family

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photo-on-4-28-16-at-2-35-pm Suzanne Patterson, Producer of film and book,  ‘A Life Worth Living – Alternative Treatment for Schizophrenia’

“Any Family with a member or child with schizophrenia is forced to make a succession of rapid-fire decisions for which they have neither information nor experience. They turn to psychiatrists, and the doctors tell them nothing. Nothing, except to take the medicine and if there are any side effects, take another medicine.

“What are the side effects?” you ask.

“Anything that seems abnormal.”, they answer.

“Abnormal? Everything seems abnormal!”

“Rigidity, shaking, tremors in the mouth.”

It’s devastating! Doctors so sure of themselves, offer nothing except half hour appointments for medication management at $150 per ½ hour? They tell you nothing about what to expect or about the horrible ‘normal’ numbing side effects from the drugs; the side effects that cause 75% of young people newly diagnosed with schizophrenia to stop taking them within the…

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