Hi Schizophrenia Connection, how are you all ?        I've had a few ups and downs for the last little while but I'm doing alright.     My visual hallucinations got suddenly very bad and I needed to find help.    Luckily, my Case Manager was just a phone-call away and she came over.      It seemed that the paranoia and so on that accompanies that sort of thing had returned with avengence such as I had not felt for quite a few years.   Anyway, I got to the hospital and they just gave me 2 lorazipam and sent me home feeling stoned and scared.

 I saw my doctor she simply increased my zyprexa and within a week it all went away and I was back to normal.      I was lucky.      The bad symptoms only lasted a few days.

 My experience illustrates what a relapse can do to an active lifestyle if you're not prepared for it.        It's essential to have and maintain a support structure of friends, family members, and health professionals to deal with "worse possible scenario" instances.

Take care y'all,

Don