Hushing the intruders in her brain

Monday, December 28, 2009 - 22:14 in Health & Medicine

The prognosis for January Schofield's child-onset schizophrenia is unclear, but at times, the voices that plague the 7-year-old are quiet. It was a little more than a year ago, that January Schofield, at age 6, began to drift from reality. Suicidal, violent and plagued by hallucinations of rats and cats who conversed and played with her, she began the first of seven psychiatric...

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