re: #185 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

IIRC, the meds themselves can have side effects the ill person can perceive as worse than the illness itself.

It can also take months to get the med combination/dosage correct. Grueling for the sick person.

My old boss had Tourette’s. Not the ‘shouting obscenities’ kind. Just tics, eyes and hands. Sometimes so bad he’d walk into stuff. He said he could suppress them when he needed to, but they’d come back worse after.

The drug prescribed for it was, IIRC, Haldol - also used for schizophrenia. He said it made him feel like a lot of his brain was shut off. Stupid. Unable to think clearly. I suspect it does the same for Schizophrenics, and if they skip a dose, they might feel the fog lifting, and it might feel good.