Paranoid Schizophrenia

Memory loss can happen through any number of things: meds, pain, stress, anxiety, mental &/or physical illness, episodes etc - also age & hormonal imbalances (in both men & women).

I have read that in paranoid schizophrenia unlike other types of schizophrenia cognitive functioning remains relatively preserved.

You have obviously never met my mother-in-law (a paranoid schizophrenic) & definitely her cognitive & every other function (in my admittedly biased opinion!!) has been affected!!

However this conditon is absolutely no different to any other physical or mental illness/condition - every person is unique - every persons reaction to the problem, reactions to meds, degree of seriousness of the problem etc - everything is unique - there are no hard & fast rules for anything.

You have to work out what meds, treatments, alternatives etc work for you & how you are going to deal with this problem & how badly (or not) you are affected by it. The experiences of others can only be a guide not a bible or a precise manual.

My sister's son has has been a Paranoid Schizophrenic all of his life. He's 38 now, on disability and never had to work a day in his life. He's a big strapping guy, but has increasingly become very lazy, and a problem for my sister. Her husband recently passed away so it's just her and her son right now.

He only started taking medication in his early twenties. In that time he used to get very ill on the medication. As of late I found Abilify for him to take. Now he no longer suffers the bad side effects of his prior medications. He's become so much better that we even heard him mumble that the medication was working to good.

The problem with him is even though he always taunts that P.S.' are usually genius' and that he considers himself one, he acts almost retarded. He relies totally on his mother for everything. Since he's home all the time his mother asks that he helps around the house.

Unfortunately, not working all of his life it's very hard to get him to do anything physical. Living in Texas the grass grows very fast down here. All my sister asks of him is to mow the grass once a week. He gripes that because of his condition he cannot exert himself to much, or that he hates sweating, or he's going to die if he sweats to much. Living with a P.S. you all know they find any excuse to get out of something they don't want to do.

I fear for my nephews future health. I am currently disabled, I have CFIDS. I'm a firm believer of the expression, "If you don't use it, you'll lose it." Even though I may get sick for a few days, I still try to do physical things around the house so that I won't become an invalid.

How can you get a P.S. motivated? After seeing a special on CNN about football players dying from heat exhaustion now my nephew refuses to mow the grass because he swears he's like the football player who could die from heat exhaustion. This is the only physical exercise he gets in his life. I don't want to get into one his confrontational discussions. Once he gets riled up, even on medication it's hard to step away from him.

Can anyone give my sister some advice on what she can do to get her son to do something physical other than clicking a button on the TV remote??

I know myself how hard it is to get motivated to do things while you're schizophrenic or even exercise a little. All I feel like doing is staying in bed, but that makes me feel even worse so I try to do things. I spent a whole year just watching TV, not able to move very much. Schizophrenics are often considered lazy, but that is not always the case - sometimes they just can't do very much. I cannot really tell what the situation is with your family member, whether he's really lazy or just catatonic. You can try letting him know of the harmful effects of inactivity. He can get seriously sick in later life from just sitting around and die at an early age.

I hate the idea of my life going to waste because of this disease.... I want to work hard and get a career, Im going to do my best to keep this from bringing me down, no matter what it takes.

Funny how I seem to be soooooooh much related to Jesus Christ, isn't it !
But this is said not by my personal words, but by the information encoded within the bible.
See Shroud of Turin Bible Codes also.
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But as I said, unfortunately the world is full of athletic intellectuals, who being athletic, jump enormous distance to reach a self satisfying conclusion.

In short, the world is full of people who are quite happy with beliefs. Beliefs are incomplete and thus do not provide a person with direct contact with the truth. Thus the world is full of people who are quite happy with less than truth. Thus if truth is presented to them, it sits beyond their belief capacity since beliefs are incomplete. Thus they reject these complete truths since they do not agree with incompleteness.

Why do you keep repeating the same thing all the time? We get the point.

I have somekind of trouble with my memory. I am inclined to forget some things but other things stick to me like glue.

For example, I can't remember what I ate yesterday or the day before, but I can remember very well the major scale and the minor scale on guitar. In fact, it gets a little eerie the things that I remember opposed to the things that I don't. eerie.

In other words you have trouble with your short-term memory, not your long-term memory.