VLVL Re: Interim (correction)

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 05:48, jbor wrote:
> on 8/2/04 9:30 PM, jbor wrote:
> 
> > We are told that Dr Elasmo's office is in "a gutted former public, perhaps
> > federal, building" (239) and that Weed quickly becomes "an old bullpen
> > regular" (240). 
> 
> s/b page nos 227 and 228
> 
> I wonder if it's Weed who was being given those Thorazine injections when he
> visited Dr Elasmo's (228.20-5). Brock tells Frenesi about what happened to
> Weed "in detail often crude enough to make her afraid", and then later,
> after she has been rescued by DL, she starts "reciting her adventures"
> (260-1) -- but what she's really doing is parroting what Brock told her
> happened and claiming it as her own experience rather than Weed's.
> 
> If Thorazine is meant to make her lose her memory, then how come she is able
> to remember so much?


Trouble with Thorazine was you had to keep taking it. As soon as you
stopped the delusions came back and presumably the memories as well.
Since taking the drug was kind of unpleasant (gave one a very blah
feeling) people tended to go off medication.  

I don't know what year it was but a theory came into vogue in the
sixties or seventies that under medication schizophrenic patients could
be allowed to live on their own outside the hospital walls. What
happened however was there soon started to be seen on the streets of big
cities an unusual number of delusional people who had stopped taking
their pills.