She's never been one of the "lucky" ones that you read about who are able to live their life with medication. She was an outgoing, chatty, beautiful, skinny 19 year old when everything just stopped for her. It's been about 15 years now.
The medication to stop the symptoms also cause significant weight gain, lethargy, etc. She does still get paranoid but not "crazy". She sleeps a lot, avoids family functions a lot
It's near impossible to have a conversation with her.
Yeah, No, I don't know.......
It's tragic. She had everything going for her and she has no life anymore. It affected all of us but my niece, my sister and her husband more than anyone, of course.
No-one in our family has had this before but I always read it was hereditary. Scares me to death if I think about it too much. If it is hereditary, her father's side had some mental issues but how do you
know?
I worry about my son who is 20. What if it
is in our families' gene pool from 100 years ago? I'm really in no hurry to have him leave home and take on "stressors" that could kick it off.