Written by
Taylor:
My story is very similar. I did not get treatment for my bipolar disorder (with psychotic features) for a number of years after my initial "break."
It was only when my behaviour became so bizarre that I not only attracted the attention of police and was deemed "dangerous" enough to meet the state's commitment critieria that I got help (and onto the path of getting better).
The devil is that in most state you have to an immenditate physivial danger to yourself or others before that can happen. Just being sick, irrational and unable to make cometent decisions about your treatment isn't enough.
I have a close friend who was diagnosed several years ago with this disease. She was hospitalized twice and is now taking her medication as prescribed and not having any of her former symptoms. She refused and still will not go for counselling which she needs and she refuses to do anything in her life. She blames her lack of interest in life on this disease. Should the medication be helping her to live a normal life?? She tends to want to blame everything on "this desease". She will not cook, read, etc or do any of the things she was so good at before her attack. She just wants to sit and watch TV or talk on the telephone all day about nothing of interest.
What should I do since she calls me every day and more than once per day. I finally let the phone just ring because I have a business to run but it is starting to get on my nerves and those of other family members.
Once in the past I tried to reason with her about something and she would not speak to me for a year.
I am baffled? Help
I am having a similar problem with my mother,
based on her actions and thought processes (highly paranoid, hears people telling her things that add to delusions of grandeur and importance) I believe that she may have paranoid schizophrenia or at least some form of psychological or social disorder.
The problem is, she divorced my dad about 15 years ago, and since i was raised by my dad, i have only seen her very breifly until her recent move to be closer to me (it has been six years since our last meeting). I believe that this has been going on for a very long time and that she has never made any actual friends since leaving. So i beleive that she doesnt have the basis for seeing that there is something abnormal about her thought processes.
also, I am only a college student right now, so unfortunately I have little resources to be helping her full time. I am in pre med and have told her that when I finish med school I will take her in, but that is not for a few years, and because i am a soldier as well, it will probably take even longer than usual due to deployments.
I also don't believe that she will be talked into seeking help, I feel that if I go against her she will only see me as another enemy, keep in mind that she has lived an isolated life for many years.
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