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...James recalls, initially indignant--no doubt remembering the horrific treatment Emma Beale had suffered. But a few months later, the Beales brought Peter to a local hospital, where he signed himself into the psychiatric ward for observation. He stayed 10 days and started taking antipsychotic medications. The diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia with depression...
After a while, things started looking up. Ed and Velma began to see that Peter's prospects were not as bleak as they had feared. They learned to recognize the cyclical nature of schizophrenia; they noticed that Peter would have good days and bad days, and that his ups and downs were not necessarily related to how much medication he was taking. They became involved with mental-health groups, particularly the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Today Ed and Velma lead courses teaching other families how to cope when a loved one is found to have a mental illness...
...future, the Beales are cautiously optimistic. Dana is thriving, and though he is at greater risk of developing schizophrenia at some point than a child without an afflicted parent, there is a better than 80% chance that he will not. The Beales have also learned to cast aside the feelings of shame and stigma that are still too often attached to schizophrenia. "My mother had cancer," Velma says. "I'm not ashamed to talk about that. Why should I be afraid to tell people about mental illness?" Peter's brother and sister also talk openly about his condition with their...
ADOLESCENCE 13-20 yrs. The brain begins to shrink, losing about 2% of its weight and volume in each successive decade. Abnormally high loss of gray matter during this period may be a cause of teenage schizophrenia...
...SCHIZOPHRENIA Affects about 1% of the U.S. population...