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The first letter writer said all I would love to say better than I ever could.
What I would like to add is a question. The author describes the different "therapies" which the doctors provided her son. Could the "therapy" have been different meds? I only ask this because the author never makes clear what these therapies are, yet they must be other medications--
My parents--both mentally ill-now deceased- lived before the advent of these new classes of medications. Their lives were wrecked---children in foster care, alcoholism, drug addiction and finally suicide. As an adult I have personally benefited from these drugs as have my child and my sister.
We live full lives--I often wonder what my parents lives would have been like if they had been born at a later time and were able to benefit from these new classes of medications--most importantly though if they didn't have to deal with the shame and stigma of being "crazy"--yeah the sixties weren't too good to the "crazy" people.
Salon--please stop with the over the top headlines---we have come so far--
