Despite hundreds of hours of therapy and months in various hospitals, she only seemed to be getting worse. We lost count how many times she tried to kill herself by swallowing pills. The antipsychotic drugs she was taking now, Haldol and Stelazine, made her joints stiff and her mouth dry. Her brown eyes, once so clear, were cloudy. She was dizzy, nauseated, and had trouble peeing. She sometimes rambled nonsense or lay in bed howling. She seemed more like a zombie than the girl she had been just a few years earlier—a sassy boy-crazy teenager in Villager shirtdresses and Capezio flats who told
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