Improvement for Schizophrenia Posted: 02-18-08 00:09am
Hello, my sister has not improved for 3
years now! She has been in many
hospitals, seen many doctors, and has been
on many types of prescriptions but her
mental state has remained the same.
Please give me any advice!
Here is her story:
Since she was 3 she had a passion for
piano. She loved playing and composing
and was determined to make that her
life-long goal. She has always been
different. Her kindergarten teacher told
my mom that she was going to be hard to
raise (which was an understatement). She
never fit in with anyone until high school
where she had a small group of friends
that just tortured her. When she was
about 16 she went on a trip with her
friend to my father's friend%u2019s house
about 8 hours away for the week. Her and
her friend went to a party there where she
was slipped a date rape drug and she got
raped. The guy tried to drown her
afterwards. She ended up getting herpes
from it and was close to committing
suicide.
She went to college for piano and went
to several different ones before going to
one in a major city about 6 hours away.
Her first apartment there was a small
studio that was nice, but cost
$1000/month. She says that this was the
happiest time of her life, going to school
and taking piano classes, then afterwards
practicing for 12 hours a day. This is
the first time in her life that she didn't
'copy' some one else. She never really
had her own identity. She has always had
one friend that she wanted to be and
completely copied this person in every
way. She eventually got a very good piano
teacher that was very strict. After going
to school for about a year here, her loans
started to kick in and she was forced to
get a full time job. Only being able to
practice piano an hour a day, and take
only a few classes, she was crushed. When
her teacher told her that her playing was
degrading, she got very depressed.
Because of her obsessive personality, she
thought about this constantly, and would
always call home crying about it. She
frantically tried to contact wealthy
people telling them her situation hoping
they would help her pay her bills, but
this never happened. She had to move out
of her loved apartment and into a small
old one.
Here, she met a woman that was to become
the next person she would copy. This
woman told my sister that if she just
accepted The Holy Spirit into her body,
that all of her problems would go away.
She told her that she would feel the
spirit enter her after saying a special
prayer, and that it would control her
according to God's plans. Excited that
this would solve her problems, and her
inability to doubt anyone (her whole
life), she got all worked up and said the
prayer. She said she felt something enter
her and began hearing voices. The woman
began taking control of her and made her
do very odd things. She made my sister
cast out demons regularly, donate all of
her clothes and get long baggy dresses,
cut her hair very short, eat special food,
and buy her anything she wanted because
God wanted it that way... They then began
doing the Chabot (a Jewish ceremony) every
Friday (again because God said to). One
time while doing this ceremony, she said
she felt something enter her that she
thought was God. Eventually the voices
started saying that they tricked her and
that is was actually the devil, or a
demon, that she accepted into her. She
stopped sleeping and began going crazy
thinking that these voices she is hearing
may not be God. This whole time she kept
her family in the dark about everything,
only telling us that she goes to church
once a week. One day she called home
telling my mother to look out of the
window because God is coming. Scared and
confused, me and my mother flew to her
apartment the next morning. When she saw
us she just said hi, instead of being
surprised. We kept asking her questions
until she snapped and poured water on our
heads with a huge grin on her face saying
that she is blessing us. We called the
cops and she was taken to a hospital for
multiple physical examinations (looking
for drugs, tumors, and other possible
causes). They gave her something to make
her sleep and seemed to snap out of it
when she woke up the next day. She was
set up with a psychiatrist and therapist
and began taking medication. Missing work
and school, my mother and I had to go back
home. We didn't know it but her condition
was getting worse and she was admitted to
several psychiatric centers before coming
home for Easter. A couple of minutes
after entering the door she had a panic
attack and we brought her to the hospital.
From here she was admitted to a private
psychiatric center.
Usually she would get dismissed after a
couple of days because she is very good at
pretending she is fine, but this time my
mother and I told the doctors that she is
just faking it. Until now she has only
been on a low dosage of her medicine. She
was told that if she didn't up her dosage
that she was going to be forced to, so she
agreed to. She finally filled us in about
everything that happened where she was
living (voices, demon attacks, seeing
Jesus, getting thrown against her wall by
spirits, knowing that she is going to die
any day, not being able to hear herself
think, completely numb body...). After a
month in this hospital with no
improvement, she was admitted to our
city's psychiatric center (which was a
legal battle). She was given
anti-depressants and her mood seemed to
get better. The doctor assured that when
the depression goes away, so will her
delusions, but they didn't. She still
'knew' she was soon to die, felt demons
enter her all the time, could not hear
herself think, and still had a numb body.
After being there for 6 months (about 5
months ago), she was able to come home.
She ended up publishing a CD of all her
piano songs that she has composed, but has
now sold her piano (that she has had for
10 years), and her keyboard and says she
will never play again until she goes to
heaven. She is still exactly the same:
demons enter her, she can't think, can't
feel, and thinks she is going to die soon.
She has tried about 8 different
medications. She now refuses to see her
therapist because %u201Cshe can't
help%u201D. And right now, as I type
this, she is at a church that picked her
up and she is probably getting prayed over
(we don't know where, or when she is
coming back, and have no way to get a hold
of her, she just left saying she is going
to a church).
There are good and bad days (mostly bad).
She smiles and jokes every once in a
while, but 99% of the time she is on the
internet (while we are at work) probably
looking up religious things. She keeps
saying that she is going to move out
because we don't believe her (that she is
getting attacked by demons), and because
we are sinners. She cries because we will
not repent and accept The Holy Spirit like
she did, because she doesn't want us to go
to hell.
She thinks that all of this stuff is
happening because she did the Chabot. The
woman that got her into all of this has
stopped talking to her because she is not
giving her money anymore, and my sister is
crushed by this. She says that if she
called tomorrow and told my sister to come
back to her, she would jump on the first
bus.
I have no idea what to do. She
constantly fights with my mother because
my mother fornicates with her boyfriend.
She refuses to see the therapist, or
change her medication. I think one day
she will disappear and we will never see
her again (maybe tonight).
PLEASE give me any advice that you can.
Even though this is a long post, there are
a ton of things that I have left out, so
if you have any questions, please ask.
Thank you!
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Philo
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Posted: 02-18-08 12:46pm
Hi, I have bad religious stuff happening
to me to. I believe it's caused by an
exacerbation of the false split between
good and evil. In catholicism, no matter
how good you are, evil still exists and is
out to get you. This will bring you
nowhere, it's not a good path. I tend to
seek help in the Buddhist world where
there is no split between good and evil.
It is much healthier. But you will
probably not get your sister to change
religions. I would say try to keep her
mind off of these things, but this also is
probably hard to do.
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woops
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Posted: 02-19-08 14:16pm
This sounds alot like what has happened to
me, all I can say is that she is probably
going to need a place to live, try and
help her find a place to live, and she
needs your love and help. In my case it
hasn't gone away, and probably never will,
and i've been on pills for seven years.
And ya know, she might not even be "crazy"
or have a disease, if only we knew
everything. People are so stupid.
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woops
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Posted: 02-19-08 14:23pm
You may want to find that woman that
talked about all of her problems going
away if she accepted the holy spirit, does
anybody find that to be somewhat odd. She
said the prayer and then felt something
enter her body? what? Maybe that woman
did something strange to her.? Who
knows.? You would have to be able to ask
her the right questions though.
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Posted: 02-19-08 15:29pm
All I can say is to keep having her
doctors try new things.
Sometimes, a new medication will help for
seemingly no reason, and sometimes, a
medication that has failed before will
work a year later. No one really knows
why.
Must be really tough, though. Hang in
there.
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woops
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Posted: 02-19-08 17:17pm
And thinking that you are going to die
anyday isn't odd at all, I don't know why
we don't expect it on a daily basis. We
see it happen day in and day out, why do
we think that we're going to keep living,
when it's only a matter of time. When I
thought that I was going to die may not be
so far from the truth, because it's coming
anyday now, and that goes for all of us.
If only we knew when.
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woops
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Posted: 02-19-08 17:23pm
you may want to also read what you can
about magick, you can't ever rule that out
these days can you. Perhaps blackmagick
would be a good place to start.
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Virginijus
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Posted: 04-17-08 08:01am
well it is something I had experienced as
well... symptoms are a quite the same..
Well, I can tell you If you want to
convince her in some way, you cannot
contradict in a harsh way.. because
schizophrenics they believe everybody
around is stupid, and if you want to make
a contact try to give some imaginative
ideas, some good offers, in a way that
give respect but no aprooval to her`s
ideas at the same time... You see the
problem is that she may need bigger doze
of medicaments and probably for long
period.. some people take it for the
whole life.. And you cannot escape that..
I was lucky, because I was diagnosed very
quickly
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make sure she is on disability and leave it to the docs Posted: 04-19-08 03:23am
make sure she is on disability and leave
the rest up to the doctors to manage. she
cannot manage her own life. its not her
fault, its not you or your parents fault.
if you feel she might die tonight or the
same day that you posted or in danger of
dying you need to do something to stop
that. i think doctors are the best judge
of situations like this that are problems
that are too big to handle and its obvious
to me that hospitalization is best for her
unless she improves quite a bit. she
might need a helping hand surviving. if
she gets on disability the department of
housing and urban development can help her
find low income apartment for people with
disabilitys, but i dont suggest that until
she is much better. in situations like
these i think medication and supervision
are your best options. i'm so sorry for
your pain. please remember though, she
will always be your sister.
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