Deserted by Them/When the voices stop

[Paul Mackin]

          On the day he realized that the hallucinations had
          stopped, Steele said he curled up in his bathtub in a
          fetal position and remained there for four days. He said
          he debated whether to tell his doctor the voices were
          gone. "What am I going to do without them?" he wondered.

          For a while, he played a game with himself, he said,
          telling himself that "if this gets too bad, I can always
          stop taking the medicine again."

>From the account of a lifelong schizophrenic in yesterday's NY Times.

			P.