Guest guest Posted April 4, 2002 Report Share Posted April 4, 2002 Hi, Sara! Glad to see you took my advice and joined us! As I told you before, you will love it here. You'll get tons of answers to your questions. I know I have since being here! >Message: 6> Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:57:16 GMT> tv_is_a_drugIntro/Thanks>That's right, the introduction and the gratitude in one spoonful. >My name (online) is Sara Thustra. As at least one of you knows (the kind >soul from another list who referred me to this one), my younger brother>is quite ill with a psychotic episode. (=way scary.) He contracted>viral meningitis two years ago (at age 18), which left him with constant>grand-mal seizures, the only successful control of which was accomplished >by keeping him on Depacote and Limactil ever since then. Now he's on>something called Geodon (I'm not familiar with it) as an antipsychotic,>but it seems to be helping little if at all.>>There's not really anything I can do about this. After several days of>freaking out, I've accepted that--I'm not going to out-diagnose the>psychiatrists or convince anybody to take him off the medications, even>if I knew of something that would work in their stead. My parents are>his primary caregivers, and they and my brother are big believers in docs > & drugs. (I am not, but that's me.)>>Anyway, my search has been narrowed now--at first, I was desperate to>find something that might help my brother, any way at all, no matter what >it was. I'd have fed him asphalt and tincture of ancient bonzai if>that's what somebody'd told me to do. *g* Having come to a more relaxed >conclusion, however, now I'm searching for a mild, calming, clarifying>sort of nervine tea that I can make--for both of us! My brother's>problems are definitely stress-induced if not outright stress-caused, but >of course he can't take anything strong, since he's already sucking down>three heavy-duty medications in pretty high doses; I don't want to risk>an interaction. I just want something I can bring him that will make>both of us feel a little less...schizy.>>Thank you all, not just in advance for all the wonderful replies I know>I'll be getting, but also retroactively, for all the caring questions and >responses I've been reading on this list for the last few days. You guys >are almost better than tea!>>Shoong,>Sara T.> Becky Wife to Steve, mom to Paul and Amanda. ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release 2/19/02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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