Catlin, a psychiatrist who is chief of the mental health service at Harvard University says that some of the students whom he treated with Prozac or Zoloft reported "feeling split off from themselves, as though they"re not there anymore." ... An older family friend committed suicide after being on Zoloft for seven days. ...
The individual's interpretation of these relationships, both conscious and unconscious, becomes the basis for later relations with others, in friendship, marriage, and raising a family. ... As a result, the infant has to split off parts of itself and repress them. ... For example, an "all bad" internal object may be split off and projectively disavowed so that the patient actually recreates a childhood relationship with an abusive parent in the transference-countertransference dimensions of the psychotherapy. ...
Generally if a person has improved on a certain drug before, or if someone in the patient's family was helped by it, the drug is likely to respond to the individual. ... These therapies have proved to be of considerable benefit to both schizophrenics and their families. ...
Children exhibit many of the same signs or symptoms as adults regarding depression, including persistent sadness and hopelessness such as excessive crying or moping; withdrawal from friends and family; withdrawal from activities once enjoyed such as sports or other recreational events; increased irritability or agitation such as a quick temper or suddenly becoming easily irritated; an increase in school absences; poor school performance including lower grades and a decrease in class participation; changes in eating habits resulting in either a significant weight loss or weight gain; drastic ch...
Schizophrenia is not a split personality. ... Other cost, such as loss of individual potential, personal anguish, and family hardship are impossible to measure. ... Schizophrenia does appear more regularly in some families, but many people with schizophrenia have no family history of the illness. ... The pain of schizophrenia is further accentuated by the person's awareness of the worry and suffering they may be causing their family and friends. ...
