Schizophrenia
OMG. A friend I hadn't heard from in awhile was filling me in on what former acquaintances were doing and...
There was a set of fraternal twins we knew at the U of Arkansas. The girls were fabulous. They were easily the most desirable PNMs of the year and all the sororities fought over them. They continued being outstanding--one was president of their sorority and the other was yearbook editor and they made every honor society possible. They had stellar careers.
So my friend said that a few years ago, one of the twins stabbed her children to death and then killed herself. The other one, a few years prior, had tried to kill herself and her sons with an overdose. The twins were schizophrenic. All the people who knew and loved them were shocked--as one guy said, "If it happened to them, it could happen to any of us." Too true.
I'm about to go do some research on schizophrenia because I want to know--can it really sneak up on you and hardly any of your friends realize it? Or is it there from birth? Can a person live a normal life when medicated? I mean, these women were so wonderful, so loved.
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