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Davidsbrother

39 years old and trying to come to grips with what happened to my

posted 07/22/2008, comments (3)

Schizophrenia and suicide

I recently lost my schizophrenic brother to suicide. I don't think his suicide was intentional, but what he did, nevertheless, ended up killing him. I only wish that I had known that schizophrenia could be so deadly. I just didn't take it seriously enough, and now my brother is dead. He was always very concerned about... Read more Chevron

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latebloomer

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posted 02/07/2008, comments (7)

late onset schizophrenia

I was 55 when I had an experience that a psychiatrist diagnosed as a psychotic episode of an organic origin, namely a noticeable loss of prefrontal (?) tissue. I was in an extremely unhappy marriage, diagnosed three years earlier with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and at age 52 I became unable to work. At about the same time I began to... Read more Chevron

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