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Christina Bruni's SharePosts

10 Schizophrenia Myths Busted

1. People with schizophrenia progressively deteriorate over time.   Reality: The symptoms often attenuate in later life and by one's sixties could be minimal. Out of respect I will not identify the person however I can tell you this is true because I have observed improvement in someone who keeps a blog on the Internet. Having read the... Read moreChevron

Cognitive Therapy: My Story - Part Two

This is the second SharePost in the series devoted to my round of cognitive therapy sessions. I want to write about the last of the 10 meetings because it was life-changing. In one fifty-minute hour the therapist enabled me to get to the root of what happened when I was 32 and felt I had been attacked. I told him that I always understood each... Read moreChevron

Cognitive Therapy: My Story - Part One

This is the first entry in a series of SharePosts that talk about my experience using cognitive therapy. My intent was to chronicle my round of ten sessions sooner however I started them this fall instead of in the summer. I can tell you only that my worry escalated to the point where I needed to take action. I will keep private the... Read moreChevron

A Holiday Message

For whatever reason, the holidays this year resonate with me more deeply. It feels like my life is moving as slow as the trains in the set my brother and I used to lay down on the ping pong table at Christmas when we were kids. The memory of those Christmas trains and the tiny toy village haunts me. Other memories flood my brain too. It would... Read moreChevron

Fanapt: Hope or Hype?

Early next year Vanda Pharmaceutical's schizophrenia drug Fanapt (generic: Iloperidone) will hit the pharmacy shelves. Could it be the first third-generation atypical? It blocks a different combination of neurotransmitters than earlier antipsychotics. The company says Fanapt targets a more relevant set of neurotransmitters, so that patients are... Read moreChevron

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