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Emily Gavigan was convinced that a nearby truck was following her. Someone was after her.

She was a sophomore at the University of Scranton ina January 2009 when the “bizarre” behavior began, said her father, Bill.
Her parents noticed that she had been rambling, not making any sense. At one point, she called her family and friends to warn them: Something terrible was going to happen to all of them.
“Emily was like a different person. We didn’t know who she was,” Bill Gavigan said. “We had gone from having this daughter who was perfectly normal, happy, vibrant … with a bright future ahead. All of a sudden, this all came crashing down.”

So many families are familiar with the difficult decisions involved in giving prescription drugs to kids. Millions of children take psychiatric drugs, often for things as routine as ADHD. But how much do doctors really know about them? NBC’s Kate Snow reports.

“The one really recognized, research corroborated, mental health diagnosis that can be brought on by infection.”  As stated by Dr. Gail Saltz on the show, commenting about PANDAS.

 

Finally, six and one-half years after publication of Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD, no one used the word “controversial.”

 

CLAWSON, Mich. (WJBK) – A mother is sharing her family’s story after he son was diagnosed with PANDAS in hopes that it can bring answers to other families.

 

 

“Few doctors can actually recognize it, even fewer can diagnose it and very few can actually treat it properly,” says Denise Lamfear. Her son Raymond is healthy and back in school in the third grade now, but they weren’t always sure that’s the way things would be.