My 46-year old daughter takes lexapro, seroquel and ativan for mild retardation and anxiety-aggression episodes. During one of these periods, in August of 2011, she was taken to a "mental" facility for a 5-7 day testing and behavior analysis. On the second day, a doctor disregarded all warnings about the risks of giving Haldol to a patient with the diagnostic history and current meds she was taking. Although she was using all three of the drugs contra-indicated, he prescribed 2 Halidol doses that day, and 2 the following day. At that point, she was transferred to the emergency room of a well-known hospital, with Haldol-induced Parkinson and Tardive Dyskinesia. She was constantly tremulous, drooling, occasional seizures, twitching, loss of memory and awareness. She remained hospitalized for more than a month, then in a rehab-nursing facility for another 5-6 weeks. She was (and still is)wheel-chair bound, unable to walk, care for herself, or use a toilet. This lack of mobility lead to even more serious problems; in December, 2012, she nearly died of Deep Vein Thrombosis (blood clots) in both legs, spawning additional clots in her lungs, which caused pneumonia and an almost-fatal concentration of sodium in her blood. She endured breathing apparatus down her throat and feeding tubes for three weeks, finally replaced with a tracheostomy. She could then breathe on her own, begin eating a soft diet and some speech. Randi is now, in March, 2013, still suffering from a drastically-altered personality, on a restricted diet, unable to walk, feed herself or do anything higher than a three-year-old level. She is still in diapers, although gradually some of her former self is emerging. She will never return to what and who she was before Haldol, but at least she is stable, in good spirits and has loving caregivers. Read More Read Less