Christy's story: A dark journey into hope.(The Seattle Times)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: February 4, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

SEATTLE _ The voices are friendlier now. They echo through Christy Parson's mind, bearing the words of a favorite therapist, a medications nurse, her sister. Gone are the strident hallucinations _ the ones that taunted her, told her she was stupid, drove her to despair.

"The voices are talking about the fantasy of my life," she said, seated happily in a recreation room of Western State Hospital in Steilacoom, Pierce County. "They don't threaten me."

Christy Parson, 36, has battled the vivid delusions of an illness like schizophrenia all her adult life. They were the worst ...

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