Friday, June 01, 2012

moonlight's Posts

Excellent, Excellent Book

I recently read a book, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks (Aug 12, 2008).  It is about a very successful woman who had schizophrenia.  It turned out she went to Oxford and Yale Law School, then was a professor at UCLA, all while being schizophrenic.  Very well written, and gives a great insight... Read moreChevron

Zyprexa's out, now onto the sixth medication!

We met with my son's psychiatrist today and he agreed to take my son off Zyprexa, since we were going to do that anyway down the road;  we also increased the Seroquil;  he's on a low dose (200 mg) and this will be upped to 300 mg and eventually we'll get to 600 mg/day.   My son really wanted off Zyprexa;  it had almost become... Read moreChevron