Prevention is better than cure!

This is going to be a very hard blog to write. I have always been open about my psychiatric illness and how I got treated. It was always in the hope that it will benefit someone. But the treatment wasn't a very smooth ride. It was an extremely turbulent one. But my psychiatrist stuck to it and so I had to go along with it. I did throw tantrums and kept missing my tablets but got back to them. The basis of my treatment was tablet Risperidone. It is a newer anti-psychotic and is used to treat psychosis and schizophrenia. It controls the action of the overflowing neurotransmitters in the brain. Overflowing of neurotransmitters is literally what happens inside the brain when one is suffering from schizophrenia. Let me tell you what went inside my brain. Normally we have waves of emotions which are constrained to a certain range and time period. During my period of psychosis I had tsunami of emotions. When I was happy I was over the top with happiness and I could literally fee...