Schizophrenia - All People Who Are Interested In "Schizophrenia"

David Robbins

posted 11/07/2009, comments (2)

early lamentings

Lately I've been wanting to use my illness as an excuse for the way I act. I shy away from conversations and really want to blame it on my SZA. I know deep down that it isn't my SZA. I have been shy my whole life. So why do I have this desire to blame it on the SZA? I don't know the answer or maybe I'm unwilling to accept the... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/04/2009, comments (2)

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 more Chevron

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Claudia Krizay

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posted 10/29/2009, comment (1)

Electoconvulsive thereapy (ECT)

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Don Fraser

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posted 10/25/2009, comments (10)

Back from the Podium with Success

Well, I was a hit in my two speeches last week. I'll try to be modest here but the audiences really did like me, and, more importantly, what I had to say. The first speech was the easy one, though the audience was a more formal one. The event was the United Way kick-off fund-raiser and I was in... Read more Chevron

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Merely Me

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I am the daughter of a mother who has paranoid schizophrenia

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posted 10/16/2009, comments (3)

Just watched "The Soloist"

I rented "The Soloist" on DVD and...just watched it today. I thought it was a phenomenal movie. I think "A Beautiful Mind" was more intense but this film was good too. I sobbed throughout and had to take breaks because some of the scenes were triggers for memories for me. I think the main thing I got out of this... Read more Chevron

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