Nami -

Antipsychotics help relieve the positive symptoms of schizophrenia by helping to correct an imbalance in the chemicals that enable brain cells to communicate with each other.

I have heard to believe that the imbalance of brain cells kills them and damages the brain. Thus, while being in an episode, brain damage is taken place. I haven't found this in writing but I have heard this is true anonymously. I actually heard my mother on the phone with a patient. She is on the board for Nami and she was returning this womans call who (i overheard) *has a son, 21, in psychosis physically harming his mother. This has become a catalyst in my mind not to smoke the rest of this G i bought over Christmas break.


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