I am starting to believe, that once on any psych med, it is impossible to go off of them, per my daughter and her 6 yr history of zyprexa use, do you know a side effect of that med is Tardive (permanent)Psychosis? Right now my daughter has been tossed into an abyss of hosp stays and docs calling her complex, and no one hears me talk about how Haldol, another example of what they have her back on, has a FREQUENT side effect of delusions..hello...she has spent 2 weeks at home talking on an unplugged telephone. Once off of all meds, she tailspinned out of control and has not been back to reality long enough to call her stable, going to school, none of it. Yep, they placed her on all meds not approved for kids under age 18 all by age 11, because she was moody, and was dx in one hour at her 1st psych appt in 1999. The rest and at least a dozen diagnoses as well as almost 2 dozen psych meds later and now age 18...is lost in a world she cant get out of, and yet is trying hard, hell . When IEP meetings happen, school officials want to make sure they are on meds and seeing docs, to the point where I always had to book ahead by months through June to make them all happy. If they are zombies and slow to move the schools dont like it, and if they cant think due to cognitive dulling the schools dont like it, if they are hyper they want them calm, basically unless they sit down, do the work, and show up, they will be scrutinized and held accountable for being on meds. Ive lived this world from 6th-12th grade w my daughter, and now over the summer and removed from meds by one doc, no doc can appear to be able to 'get her back'. It is like a death of a family member, yet she is still here. I can hear her voice, and yet she doesnt have it anymore. All of these drugs will be on trial at some point, what I want on trial and to talk about is the health care costs, the fact that psychs cost more than reg docs and insurance doesnt have co pays, if you are lucky to have a doc even bill using insurance, we are now at the walk in and pay arena. Yet the GP can prescribe the same meds, what the hell do we need the psych's for anyhow. Not one has made a whopping difference in my daughter's life...one cant help thinking they screwed her life up totally, with permamnent damage to her brain due to medications.Im not anti-med either. I am anti-losing my daughter to shit.