treatments. kara is completely nonverbal. one night she repeatedly hit herself for 12 hours nonstop. we needed to go a different direction, and the anti-psychotics, that s when they started, right after that. kara started taking powerful drugs often used for adults and adolescence with psychiatric disorders. they just changed it from a constant to an every 15-minute kind of thing. definitely an improvement, but with a tremendous cost. mark says the drugs left kara unable to do anything, not present or aware of her surroundings. the little girl they longed for, that little toddler full of words and smiles was lost to them. it s permanent grief. yeah. she was robbed of a life. a life her parents would do