A very close family member of mine has paranoid schizophrenia. It has been going on for several years. It is to the point that we may have to force medical treatment upon this person with legal tactics.
Sometimes this person is completely normal and it's just like the good old days (which is so heartbreaking), then other times they'll be asking me questions about if I know of people who have been in the house, stealing their things.... Believing that the neighbors are taking things and moving them around the house (even though the neighbors have never been over). Then the next day its forgotten about and not discussed, as if it never happened, and this person is back to normal. Its much worse than that, those are just examples
With medical treatment, how treatable is it? I love this person so much and can't bare to think of them like this for the rest of their life. I can tell that they're not happy. I know when they were happy in life and I'd love for them to be in that place again
2007-11-28 07:52:46 · 5 answers · asked by Sean R 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
These will point you in the right direction:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/paranoid-schizophrenia/DS00862
http://www.schizophrenia.com/szparanoid.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000936.htm
2007-11-28 07:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very treatable if he has it. Consider that paranoia is a national pastime in the USA. We all seem to fear one another (why else is there 9 guns owned for every ten citizens who are not children, law officers or hunters?) and fear and mistrust most other nations.(We maintain a nuclear stockpile of over 5000 warheads).
Diagnosis by a non-professional is usually wrong and can be counterproductive. Paranoia is a disorder found in a lot of people who are not schizophrenic. What you have described are not the symptoms of schizophrenia, which is not a single disease but a spectrum of disorders.
If he is not a danger to himself or others it is hard to force him to seek medical treatment.
Good luck with your relative, good mental health, peace and Love!
2007-11-28 09:23:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medication can help a lot of more or less cure it.
However if you go off the medication, you're back to square one.
The problem is people thinking they're better, going off the medication, then getting so bad they don't go back on it.
What this person needs is your support and it sounds like you already are and you care alot about them which is a big, BIG help, seriously.
2007-11-28 08:02:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jess. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's treatable and the prognosis is good with the new atypical antypsychotics. Your family member can have a normal life. He / she maybe a bit antisocial and withdrawn but overall can have a normal life.
2015-07-26 14:53:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother is much much better with medicines. he still obssesed about things though....
2007-11-28 08:34:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋