support group and took meds and i never even knew she had it until my
mom told me once a few years back. A lot of the times schizophrenia is
sudden and generally brought on by major events. My fiance's
grandmother became schizophrenic after a nasty car acciedent. She was
really bad ened up shooting her neighbor, I think it was in the leg.
In the police report the neighbor admited to basically tuanting my
fiance's grandmother into shooting her. Here to hoping everyhting turn
out well!
Adam H
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:31:32 -0600, dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I am really sorry to hear this. My experience with schizophrenia is
> not encouraging; tried to help a nice girl, seemed to be ok except
> homeless, and the next thing I knew she was convinced that my daughter
> (then three) was evil and needed to have the crap beaten out of her to
> save her or something, and I had to have the cops come take her away.
> I saw her on the street a few times after this and she did not seem to
> remember either me or the incident. As best I know, if you can keep
> them on meds schizophrenics can do well.
>
> As for Alzheimer's... my great-aunt, who had Alzheimer's, just died of
> a stroke. Her sister, my grandmother, also had Alzheimer's and died of
> a stroke. Hmm. Makes me wonder if the original problem in both cases
> was perhaps a stroke??? Alzheimer's is becoming shorthand for a
> dementia in the elderly, but as far as I know there is still no way to
> diagnose it in the living except by exclusion....though if anyone here
> knows otherwise, I'd love to hear about it, as the rest of the family
> has adopted a mantra of we don't *know* that it's genetic, we don't
> *know* that it's genetic :)
>
> LOL
>
> Dana
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Judith Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:19:46 -0400
> Subject: Re: schizophrenia.
> To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Paul,
>
> I'm sorry that your friend is going through this now, and that it's
> freaking you out. Schizophrenia (and many mental illnesses) can be
> very scary, both to the people who have them, and to those who love
> them. I'll put your friend (and you) in my prayers, that all should be
> well.
>
> Judith
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