l dosing is absolutely necessary is the degenerative effects of schizophrenia.Something that is ignored in Dr. Wong's analysis is the fact that as the schizophrenic gets older the condition worsens. As the condition worsens the dosing must increase. Often, through childhood symptoms are ignored and left to get worst, by the time a doctor tries actually diagnosis the situation they must use optimal dosing to counteract the degenerative effect of the disease over the years. An example of this disintegration is seen in this excerpt , "...Beeby speaks with disarming candor - her way of dealing with the horror that befell her family. It began in 1979, when Beeby's 17-year-old son, Matthew, started to hallucinate. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, the boy stayed at home in Toronto as his condition worsened. In his madness, Matthew believed that God wanted his mother and his sister Susan, to die. Frightened, Beeby tried to have Matthew committed so that he could be treated. But, she discovered that this was virtually impossible without Matthew's consent - which he would not give. Then on a dark, cold day in February, 1981, Beeby arrived home to discover her son dead in a pool of blood. "He had taken two ordinary dinner knives," says Beeby, "and plunged them into his eyes until they pierced his brain." (Buchanan)The horror of Beeby's tragedy may be hard to fathom, but the affliction behind it is all too common. "I live in a totally different world, a different reality," says Gus Boudens, a 30-year-old schizophrenic in Montreal who has been hospitalized frequently. "I've been through lots of different hells." (Buchanan)This example shows the problem with the acceptance of lower doses. This sort of degenerative problem is indicative of the disease. Although, there is an abuse of the drugs, cases like the aforementioned are denotative of a constant need to further the treatment of schizophrenia and not shy away from aggressive treatment to prevent t...
