Sunday, August 26, 2007
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. This is number five in a series of blogs made possible by the encouragement and financial support of The HealthCentral Network. All represent interviews with senior officers of NAMI [National Alliance on Mental Illness] or other luminaries that attended the NAMI 200...
I was very interested in what Dr. Torrey
had to say about schizophrenia, and bipolar. In 1997 my husband was diagnosed
with EEE. After the long haul of ten years
he has memory problems, executive functioning deficits. A man of 50 at the time with a masters degree, and a business
reduced dementia.
My son has Bipolar I, diagnosed late. He is now 29. The past 5 years with him have been a nightmare. He is on Depakote,
Invega, Tazidone. The different gammit
of meds are heartbreaking. In and out of jail. I have always thougt this just can't be bad luck. There is a connection. There is a connection. You are so right on. I want so badly for someone to look at their brains
with MRI. I want so badly for them to be a trial, or test. Something is not right, and I know it. There is some way of a connection. Someone who specializes in this very thing. Antibodies etc.
A wife and mother who wants answers, and to possibly stop "The Madness"!