I have always had mixed feelings about taking medications. Growing up I watched my mother take daily multiple medications to treat her schizophrenia. I also watched her deal with a host of side effects which almost seemed worse than her mental disorder. Some pills caused her to sleep for most of the day, some provoked anxiety attacks, and some caused involuntary twitches, jerks, and facial grimacing called tardive dyskinesia. It is little wonder that she was never very good about taking...
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