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My Son and Schizophrenia

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I am a mother of a son with schizophrenia trying to cope and help him...

Sheri

Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Two years ago my son was diagnosed with Schizophrenia at the age of 23, we went through a rough road he did not want to believe that something was wrong with him. He would go back and forth from my house and his grandmothers house he would get upset with one of us and use us against eachother. One day when he was at my house he and he got so bad that I had to call the police to have him removed from my house, I never in my life ever thought I would be calling the police on my son. We were able to get him the help he needed he volentarily went to the hospital and commited himself. He was doing great for awhile we got a court order for him to take his meds because he still refused it worked mental health would go to his apartment (they provided the apartment) and give him his meds well that worked for the six months on the court order.

He stopped taking the meds about a yr ago, and now we are going through the symptoms again hearing voices, talking off the wall stuff, he shaved his head the other day he is losing weight again and just does not want to listen to anything we have to say. We finally got him to agree to go to the emergency room yesterday to get him back on his meds. He took his first one this morning with no fight, went to work and called me about 5 minutes after he got there and told me that they had fired him, last night his girlfriend sent him home because he was being rude to her and making her cry. Now I have no idea where he is and he turned off his cell phone so we cant get a hold of him. I just am at a loss I could use any help I can get and any suggestions would be great.

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Schizophrenia is a syndrome characterized by disturbances in emotions, thought, activity, and language, that leaves patients fearful and withdrawn.

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