AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE :A True Story - Hachette

One morning when he was almost five years old, Cory Friedman woke up with the uncontrollable urge to shake his head. As his life became an agony of involuntary tics and utterances, Cory embarked on a twelve-year odyssed of medication upon medication. It soon became unclear which tics were symptoms of his condition and which were side effects of the countless drugs. The only certainty was that it kept getting worse. But with the love and support of his family, teachers, and doctors, he fought for his very life...and achieved amazing successes.