if anyone needs to know anyting just ask, she has been through many common medications, with this illness, all the medications have a sedative effect which in turn leads to weight gain and depression {maybe the lesser of two evils).
When she has gone on one in the past ive just prayed for her to sleep, its as if the brain wont switch off and the longer the sleep depriavtion the deeper the psychosis seems to become.
She became afraid of the standard medications too, this was because one of the meds causes the tongue to press into roof of mouth and a feeling of choking ensues, this treatment is followed by procyclidine which relieves the spasms.
Its hard leaving your missus in a mental ward so if anyone is experiencing this..
we have an eight year old too...he is unscathed, i reckon i covered stuff well there lol.
when he was a baby i had a cup of coffee thrown over me while i was holding him.. probably at that pre sectioning under the mental health act stage,pretty much unreachable, when her state of mind are as unpredictable as can be tolerated.
This brings me to a point where i had trouble reaching the services of those who could help, the paths to them are not always clear because numbers change and people leave their jobs and community mental health workers are very overstretched here. If your not on the register and have no CPN then u have to go to casualty
The current medication of Seroquel has prevented serious bouts for quite some time now so i'm happy that she is stable, but i know she isnt happy.
Anyway im nearly 40 and have been a carer for 7-10 years, so if u have a question or comment about caring for schizophrenia post it plz.
one more thing is schizophrenia a bit like dementia but in younger people?
When she has gone on one in the past ive just prayed for her to sleep, its as if the brain wont switch off and the longer the sleep depriavtion the deeper the psychosis seems to become.
She became afraid of the standard medications too, this was because one of the meds causes the tongue to press into roof of mouth and a feeling of choking ensues, this treatment is followed by procyclidine which relieves the spasms.
Its hard leaving your missus in a mental ward so if anyone is experiencing this..
we have an eight year old too...he is unscathed, i reckon i covered stuff well there lol.
when he was a baby i had a cup of coffee thrown over me while i was holding him.. probably at that pre sectioning under the mental health act stage,pretty much unreachable, when her state of mind are as unpredictable as can be tolerated.
This brings me to a point where i had trouble reaching the services of those who could help, the paths to them are not always clear because numbers change and people leave their jobs and community mental health workers are very overstretched here. If your not on the register and have no CPN then u have to go to casualty
The current medication of Seroquel has prevented serious bouts for quite some time now so i'm happy that she is stable, but i know she isnt happy.
Anyway im nearly 40 and have been a carer for 7-10 years, so if u have a question or comment about caring for schizophrenia post it plz.
one more thing is schizophrenia a bit like dementia but in younger people?