A couple of years ago they wanted to switch him to a generic Clozaril and he was told by his psychiatrist that the generic was different and would not suggest changing it for my son. Dear P.T., There is no difference chemically between the generics and brand names. The only difference is what people who take these drugs believe will be effective for them. If a person thinks that a certain brand name will work better than the generic, then they will only want to take it. There's something behind the brand name that people want to use them.
People think that the brand names make the drugs a better quality.
In reality, though, brand name drugs are no different from the generic ones. And my second question has to do with her last crisis, which is starting right about now. She does not take any medication. But the problem is that at some point she always decides not to take it anymore and obviously we get a crisis. She develops side effects fairly easy.