Since July or August, I have been walking around with a pen I found on a table at CHS. The pen is one of those pens that salesmen hand out that have the name of a company or product on it, with the hopes that it will become free advertising as you weild it in meetings. This particular pen has the logo for a prescription drug on it. Since I first found the pen, I have wondered for what the drug is prescribed. This morning, on the way out the door to check on a computer problem in another building, I decided to look up the drug.
Pfizer manufactures the drug called Geodon. The chemical name for Geodon is ziprasidone HCl. For those of you not in the know, like I was about ten minutes ago, here is what the Geodon website says:
GEODON is a medicine for the treatment of some mental illnesses. It is used for acute manic acute bipolar mania or mixed episodes associated with bipolar disorder.
Doctors believe GEODON helps balance certain natural chemicals in your brain. This, in turn, helps treat your symptoms of acute mania acute bipolar mania or a mixed episode. And that can help you feel better.
Of all the pens for me to have picked up, I had to pick up one for a drug that treats schizophrenia. I wish the pens I bought at the store didn’t run out of ink so damn quickly.
Update: I have been told I made a huge jump from bipolar disorder to schizophrenia. Admittedly, I did not fill in the blanks between the two. While they are not the same illness, the GEODON website lists both. I haphazardly chose parts of their site to quote, leaving things a bit confusing when taken out of context.
Maybe you have run out of ink, but you are too crazy to realize it. Or maybe the pen really isn’t a pen at all.