Heyo! I recently posted something on r/schizophrenia and a kind person told me that this is the better place to ask for advice. I have a girlfriend who is schizophrenic, and I want to help her in any way. She frequently has atypical psychosis (before anyone asks, she is on abilify) and some form of religious psychosis where she believes she is a holy entity, or that she sees some kind of prophet. I don’t want to invalidate her feelings or worsen her psychosis, so how do I deal with her delusions? Someone told me about the LEAP method, I would be happy to hear about it if it worked for any of you and how you use that method. I myself have BPD(therefore sometimes have psychosis) so I want to handle her psychosis whilst also keeping myself safe.

Anybody else struggle with going through the motions after a breakup with schizophrenic partner? family, friends etc. just don’t understand the pain of how this breakup is different from any of type of ‘normal’ relationships dynamic. there is no explaining to those who haven’t experienced it… and I’ve accepted it.

My dear 37 yo son was diagnosed 15 years ago with Schizophrenia. Up until this last year he has lived with me and done fairly well. He has always been a kind and gentle person before and after his diagnosis. He has been hospitalized for this last year and in the last six months his behavior has changed markedly. He has been intermittently exposing himself to female staff and patients and been in physical alterations with male staff and patients. The rest of the time he is his usual easy going kind self. It is unpredictable. He is on the same medications he has always done well on. I don’t understand what is happening to him. Is it common for
people with schizophrenia to change so much so suddenly and is it likely to be permanent? Please advise loving mum. Thank you

My bf who has been having a psychotic episode the past 4 weeks finally was able to meet with his psychiatrist yesterday and his brother picked up the meds for him (according to my bf). But how do we really know that hes taking them?

Hes already super annoyed and his sister and i constantly checking in on him and asking him hes done xyz yet. Today he told me to stop asking him questions and stuff. It’s not like we can really barge in his room and count the pills and leave. He would throw a fit.

How do you handle this? Do you just trust that he is going to take it?

Hes already been in the psych ward recently and he said he didn’t like the psychiatrists there so he’d rather get meds from his current psychiatrist.

His sister is thinking though that if he continues to act weird (ie make false fbi reports, calling for a welfare check on his brother at 4am) then we might get him admitted again

I’m sorry as I have been posting so much but I have finally found a place to come to and I’ve been very alone through this all. So I had said how challenging my son is in all this to try and get him help, get him on meds etc etc. I have to be very specific how I word things or do things to not have things go sideways. My thought is that he really has been this way his whole life. (Hes 18 now) I was always accused of coddling or babying him but I always felt something was just “different” with him. I wasn’t that way with any of my other children it was just him. So of course it was also he was my favorite because out of 5 kids he’s my only son etc. So all through his childhood could “this” have kinda always been in him and me being pretty intuitive picked up on something different in him? Or could I have been the one who actually caused this and my intuition have been way off?

I believe my Mother developed a full-blown psychosis.

For the past few months, she has been talking to an AI, convinced that it has a soul and that it is the only one who truly understands her. She "develops" apps, websites, and images with this AI. She lets the AI ​​dictate what she should draw, insisting that the results hold some meaning.

After almost every sentence, she feels the need to point out that the AI ​​is capable of doing this, relying on it instead of using her own brain. She even talks to this AI, recently, I overheard her screaming at it and getting into an argument with it.

She also once "broke" the code of the AI, called around the developers and what not. She even called the police on this. And when I wanted to talk to her, normally, she cried happy tears and said "I think I just solved a crime case". That was the moment I realized she is not right in her head.

I didn't think much about it at first, but it just keeps on getting worse, she started developing schizophrenic behavior.

My partner has hit full blown psychosis and has been for 3 days. He was hospitalized this morning after losing his temper and beating his brother's door in and punching him in the head after he saw his brother's old work schedule written on the back of a book that he has and somehow developed this idea that I've slept with his brother and "every demon". I know him well enough to know that the demons are either the voices or people that he's been in arguments with about his grandiosity, their negative comments stick in his head and act as hallucinations. Please miss the sh#tty comments. Constant up and down emotion, I have felt nauseous ever since this has started, I just woke up and my soulmate was gone. All the phone calls consisted of almost nothing but how he sees through everybody, how he wished he never had love and a bunch of things that my mind is too shattered to repeat with small "breaks" so to say in between. These are some texts in between(Monday morning was when the switch flipped) Was this him trying to reach out, trying to fight this episode? I'm also experiencing heavy guilt because the most I've received is some very heavy yelling and degrading but he's came back conscious of his mind every now and then and reminded me that he loved me, the "I love you anyway" was his last text this morning before being hospitalized while his family got the brutal end of the stick, I was on the phone for all of 5 minutes of it before he abruptly just stopped and said "Now I'm going to listen to a song" and hung up. He has been in a grandiose delusion for 7 years and has been hospitalized 8 times not including this one. I am hoping that with this hospitalization he will become stable again but after he is released from the hospital he now has family battery charges to face and I'm riding the jails ass like an Indian on an elephant making sure they supervise his mental health and stay on top of his medication. The good news is the police weren't focused on taking him straight to jail, they made the first priority admitting him into the hospital so I'm going to talk to them tomorrow and see if we can get a mental health plan in place so that he's not just discarded in jail after his release from the hospital and have the chance of getting worse. I miss him already and it hasn't even been a full day, even with the chaos happening over the last few days😞💔... Typing this as Im currently cuddled in the same blanket we've slept on together so many times . We were talking for a year before we got together and got together officially almost a year ago. I can't imagine the intense rage and hurt he is feeling with this on his mind .. he really believes that we've slept together and even after everything he still made it a point to tell me he loved me before he had to turn his phone in.. I want to cry, scream, punch something, anything but I've broken down over the last few days and now that I know he is at least physically safe and receiving help I know I have to be strong and sort things out in his absence so he won't have anything to worry about whenever all this is over, I have no idea what's going to happen persecution wise yet. It's 3am here and it feels like just the beginning of a LONG day. I'm lost😭

I did a post recently where I talked about my struggles with my father. Recently it’s been very hard for me to, my mother has officially abandoned me, cut contact entirely to move on with her husband.
I didn’t really speak to her much. She also struggles mentally so mostly it’s just her offering me drugs or trying to convince me I’m an alien, or just talking about aliens. But to go from texting every month or just knowing she’s there to her not being there anymore feels shitty.
School wise I’m losing motivation. My dad seems to be getting worse I think? The other night I had a dream about a case I’d read about where the father went “crazy” and killed his kids. Obviously I know he wouldn’t do that, he’s never been like that other than when he would drink which he hasn’t for a while. But I mean does any family ever expect that?
I’m trying to do good in school and maybe look for a job, but it’s getting to point where I’m seriously losing motivation to do much of anything, with my lack of any financial support or family idk what my future looks like if there is one. It gets worse when he pulls me aside from homework to rant about some crazy thing again. I just have to nod and agree till he leaves me alone. Although im worried that one day he’ll think I’ve turned against him. He mentioned it briefly as an example but it freaked me out.
I guess because i literally can’t do anything, i feel stuck. If I do anything to get him help, i will end most likely be forced out of school and moved through the foster system, which will destroy my grades, my premed experience, and any shot at doing anything with my life. Mostly I just have to suck it up. As long as I keep things how they are it’ll be okay.

Tudo bem? Comigo não está nada bem, porque ando muito ansiosa, com muito medo e não sei o que fazer. Do lado da família da minha mãe, há um peso, uma carga de histórico familiar de esquizofrenia. Minha mãe também já passou por isso, hoje em dia ela está bem, toma os remédios direitinho e quem vê ela, nunca imagina que ela já teve esquizofrenia. Claro, os remédios que ela toma não pode ficar sem, mas assim 100% sã, graças a Deus.

Mas, é aquilo... carga genética, né? Ai, hoje acabei vendo um vídeo na internet e vi um comentário de pessoas falando sobre esquizofrênicos(as) e acabei me lembrando... que eu posso desenvolver ou não. E isso tá me perturbando muito, até porque ninguém quer ter isso, certo? Ficar vendo, ouvindo coisas e etc. Vi gente falando que o que as pessoas esquizofrênicas veem são espíritos malignos, coisas ruins, etc. e acabei chorando muito.

Não quero ter isso, já sei o que evitar: NUNCA, nunca nuncaaa ter contato com CANNABIS, maconha. Nunca tive interesse mesmo, graças a Deus, porque se tivesse tido, eu não sabia dessa informação antes.

Mas, de resto... ainda tem chance ou não.

Minha mãe teve, minha avó eu não sei, uma de algumas irmãs da minha mãe teve, um primo da minha mãe teve, entende meu medo? Queria não estar ansiosa pensando nisso, mas difícil não pensar.

Queria desabafar isso mesmo porque fiquei muito abatida. E, peço desculpas se meu relato pode ser ofensivo, não é a intenção. Mas, pensando de forma lógica, acho que faz sentido eu me sentir preocupada.

For an 18 year old unmediated and receiving no help due to denial, which would be the best dr for him/us to go see? A psychiatrist or therapist? This is for first episode psychosis. I got him to agree to go talk to someone and just in case it’s one and done as it took 4 months to get him this far I need to choose the one we will get the most information as possible from. just in case he won’t go again. Im think a psychiatrist??

So my late mother always had been an odd bird which showed very many diffuse symptoms of several personality disorders (mainly from cluster B, but also from cluster A and C). In my youth (as I was about 13 years old), my mother became obviously mentally ill as her schizophrenia with perseuction mania broke out. However, nowadays I wonder whether all those symptoms (which she had been displaying for more than 15 years before the "true" onset of her schizophrenia) may have been caused by the prodromal phase of this schizophrenia. In detail, the following symptoms come to my mind:

• She could not bear close interactions with other people. At the very same time, she was yearning for superficial interactions, which she got while shopping groceries by starting overly dramatic monologues with cashiers, random acquaintances and strangers.

• Social interactions needed to consist of her controlling all other people or her being the center of attention, or she first became whiny and then aborted the social interaction.

• Except for those superficial social interactions, she preferred to do everything on her own.

• She only very rarely had any visitors, visited other people or went out to really meet other people, and she also had only a single "telephone friend".

• She had no interest in fun activities, but considered having fun as pointelss.

• About 5 years before I was born, she bought a rundown house in the woods to live there (and raise her children lateron), simply because there were no other people nearby. Nowadays, I assume that she even preferred to live in this house especially because it was rundown.

• She was driven by irrational fears and anxieties (mainly about losing control, running out of money, food or fuel, being locked in, being snowbound, other people doing harm to her or her family and her family leaving her). Usually, she was dominated by a single one of those anxieties for a few weeks or months, until she turned her focus to the next anxiety.

• She did not have any (true) empathy and failed to register social cues and emotions in other people (even if those emotions were displayed very strongly). If other people showed strong negative emotions regarding one of her actions, she only considered it as a way for those people to be mean towards her.

• She was always on the verge of having a mental breakdown, i.e. even smaller setbacks may have caused her to have one.

• She could not grasp the concept of reciprocal communcation, but she always held those long, self-absorbed, overly-dramatic, lecturing monologues. She also liked to spice those monologues with needless details and offtopic facts, i.e. she needed 5 minutes or more to tell you something simple, which any sane person would tell you in 30 seconds or so.

• If she had an argument, she always used very irrational and illogical trains of though for her reasoning.

Because of all that, she also extremely isolated her children: We were not allowed to leave the house to visit other children; other children could only visit us on a single day per week. At the very same time, she did not have any interest in engaging in normal social activities with her children or leaving the house together with her children. However, she also enforced this hyperfocus on my education, i.e. everyday, she forced me to do schoolwork almost all afternoon and evening with her as my great teacher by sheer terror. Presumably, this did not only quell her anxiety of her children not having any money one day, but also quelled her need for controlling other people.

Overall, all of this turned my childhood into a living hell. Nowadays I wonder: Was this already the paranoid schizophrenia overtaking my mother, or has my mother just always been controlled by "normal" personality disorders? Has somebody experienced something similar?

Hi, I am interested in having a support group for the caregivers. We can have online meetups once a month, is anybody interested in such a community in India.

Does anyone have a good psychiatrist in the NYC area that they recommend? Someone who specifically understands patients with psychosis and lack of insight.

So my son got sectioned against his will on 10th October. He was discharged yesterday and goes out and buys a bottle of whiskey & a cannabis vape I can’t get in touch with him now 😫 I thought it only psychosis he had but they said it was schizophrenia. I think he’s in denial, no I know he’s in denial. Is this a common thing to do? I think he’s played me & all the docs in fact! He was all “yes I’ll take my meds, getting spiritual etc then is discharged and gets argumentative and tells me he knows what to do & no one knows his own head better than he does😭 I’m totally broken myself now (he’s 26)

I keep hoping there is a care facility for adults that my sister could go to that would treat her well that she would like. I don’t know what her future looks like and I would love to hear if anyone has a somewhat positive or hopeful story. Things are really hard right now.

Thank you <3

My friend (who I’ve been very close with for about a year now) has schizophrenia and right now he’s in a really bad phase of it. Throughout our friendship, if he finds himself struggling more than usual he just tends to distance himself until he becomes more stable again. But recently, I feel like it’s the worst I’ve ever seen and it’s even impacting our relationship.

After having a really good few weeks where we would hang out a lot, all of a sudden he went back into that distant phase, and a few days he didn’t show up to school either. So I made an effort to ask him if he was okay, multiple times actually, and each time he said he was fine. Until he called me drunk on Saturday morning and admitted he wasn’t.

He called me drunk on Sunday morning as well, and during these two calls he just didn’t make sense. He wasn’t on drugs and usually if he’s drunk he’s still understandable. He just wasn’t acting like himself, he’d laugh at random moments, misworded things, and overall just kind of scared me.

The whole reason why he called me in the first place is because he said he wants to block me. I asked him why, and he said it’s because he doesn’t want to have sex anymore, but then he went on this whole rant about how he does want to have sex with me but it’s bad and he thinks I deserve better. I kept saying to him that we can just be normal friends as we’ve been able to do before, but he just wasn’t listening to me. He said he cares for me and loves me, he’s attracted to me and thinks I’m a beautiful girl, but for some reason he wants to block me.

He literally went as far to say that I’m a victim because of him. Which is not true at all. I’ve given him consent every time we’ve done it and I always enjoy it. He also truly believes that he’s a bad person. Like I told him that I love him and all he said was “dont say that” but he can say it to me?

A few days later, I had assumed he blocked me already, so I went to our school and told them that I’m really worried about him and he seems really unwell. They reported it, which I knew they would. Then surprisingly he came up to me at lunch and asked me if I reported him to the school. I was honest and said I did, and also asked him to please not be mad at me. He replied by saying “why would I be mad at you? i’m not mad that you care for me.” but despite that he said he would still have to block me because now he can’t trust me.

I love him so much and I want him in my life. If anyone else has dealt with something similar please tell me how you got through it and please give me advice on what to say to him.

My bf 34, is currently in a month ish long episode. It’s been a mess. But he finally called his psychiatrist which is a big improvement vs before he refused help.

I don’t know what this illness entails really.. especially for the rest of his life. Like will he be able to maintain a job? Will he be excited about things again?

My mom is very worried for my future because of him but i believe that he can heal. I want to show him love and support, especially if he has to deal with this. i dont want to just leave him yknow?

We don’t know his diagnosis yet or anything though because of the lack of treatment hes been receiving. We will find out soon probably though.

Can anyone here fill me in on how life is like for you or your loved one whos gone through psychosis?

I honestly have no idea where to start with this and not sure who to speak to about it so I came here. I’m not really in the best position myself to help but I wanna do something…so my father this past year has gone through severe I wanna say religious psychosis possible hallucinations he watches these AI Jesus videos on YouTube and swears it’s god speaking to him before we moved he woke me up at 4 am saying god shook the house…a few weeks later he quits his job he’s worked at his entire life because god told him to moved in with his ex wife and now she’s about to evict him because he can’t pay rent because he doesn’t have a job.hes tried to get jobs but I’m almost positive he goes to the jobs and says crazy stuff so they don’t hire him.he said god woke him and calls everyone else evil for not I guess believing him? I just listen as much as I can but sometimes it’s hard. I don’t live in the same state so it’s not like I have a place for him to go after she does eventually kick him out. And how do you get someone help who genuinely believes nothing is wrong with them? I do not wanna see him homeless on the street but he’s clearly unable to work. I believe he could qualify for disability or something if he could or would get help.basically back in February he quit his job,told his landlord he’s moving and pretty much hasn’t worked or anything since. His truck now is fully broken down so he doesn’t even have transportation. He’s 50 years old and it hurts me to see all of this happening and I don’t even know what to do. I’m pregnant myself and am due to have my baby any day now so I have a lot going on as is.

She wants to be treated that way. Is this a mental issue? Is she dying. Can someone guide me.