drdehavior, we have a son who has had and in having classic and serious paranoid schzophrenia episodes we are desparate to help him.  He is 31 years old and has just finished his first two years of medical school. He insists there is nothing wrong but all close to him know this is not true.  What should we do and how can we convince him he must get help?

 i think my brother has the schizphrenic becuase he hear voices and alot of stuff but i dont know how to fix it  please someone help me i am begging someone if they can give me a phone number or something  it would mean the world to me  i am all he has and i just need help with it  thanks

I don't know where you live but go in your phone book and look for a psychiatrist. This is a medical doctor who deals specifically with mental illness.

Your brother needs medical attention. You can't help him on your own. There are many medications available to help stabilize schizophrenia but a psychiatrist absolutely needs to evaluate him. I hope you can find someone to help you. There are also mental health clinics for low income people if you don't have insurance. You can call a hospital emergency room to get a list of resources or you could take your brother to the emergency room if he gets really out of control. I wish you the best. Mental illness is really difficult to deal with.

You have done your children a great disservice by having stayed with this man for so long. Your focus is on him and your love for him. Your children, their eventual partners and THEIR children are going to pay the price for your blindness. I hope that they are still young enough and that you have the time, energy and finances to send all of them for long term therapy before they become adults. Its not just genetic mental illness that damages lives. Its the resulting personality disorders that grow from  living in a home like this which then go on to ruin other lives. 

You need to understand that schizophrenia is NEVER cured. It NEVER ends. You need to choose between this  or saving your children, if its not too late.

My husband and I split in December 2009 and he moved out in January 2010, He suffers from Parinoid schizophrenia, this May he tricked me into going away now he has taken custody of our 4 and 5 years old, he went to court and got a residence order and a prohibited steps order.  I am going to court to get them back but fear for my childrens life, I have explained to the police that he my ex husband sufferes from Parinod Schizophrenia and they have ignore my cry , I have also explained this to the social services and their reply was he can still have the freedom to look after kids, this enrages me and I know that they are wrong to ignore me. What can  I do?

Go to the newspapers and media. Public exposure of the social services and courts willingness for a schizophrenic to have young children in his full-time care should provoke some corrective actions. Of course, they will question your own fitness as a parent. Why did you go away, leaving your children behind? If you left them in a schizophrenic's care, you basically approve of him looking after your children on his own. But even if you did make an error in this way, your children should not pay for it.  It also depends on where in the world you are living. I can think of quite a few places where its like Alice in Wonderland.

I agree with Riet. E-mail to your local newspaper and your local politicians (mayor, councillor, whatever) a truthful account of why you went away, who you left your children with. If you recognise now that you made a mistake in taking that risk, admit it. Then, highlight the fact that you do not think your children should pay for your naive mistake and that they should not be left in the full-time care of a schizophrenic. It could be argued by his supporters that he is fine, if he is taking his medication, but who is monitoring that? I think that most public figures do not want a situation to develop where children are harmed and it is revealed later in the media that they were warned beforehand.

I agree with Riet. E-mail to your local newspaper and your local politicians (mayor, councillor, whatever) a truthful account of why you went away, who you left your children with. If you recognise now that you made a mistake in taking that risk, admit it. Then, highlight the fact that you do not think your children should pay for your naive mistake and that they should not be left in the full-time care of a schizophrenic. It could be argued by his supporters that he is fine, if he is taking his medication, but who is monitoring that? I think that most public figures do not want a situation to develop where children are harmed and it is revealed later in the media that they were warned beforehand.

I was set up he told me to go away with my eldest son whom is from a previous partner and then he told me he will meet me in two weeks with the other two children which are ours, I did ask if I could take them but he refused. He then proceeded to go to the courts after my fifth day away he go himself a residence order and a prohibited steps order accusing me of abandoning the children. I waited for my return flight back to UK and now I am seeing a solicitor I really think I should go to the media because he has truly manipulated me and the courts. I cannot believe he has done this to me.

I am also in the same situation..I have been married for 13years and I think my husband has schizophrenia..He accuses me on cheating on him..he tells me that he saw me sitting with a guy that I don't even know and that I flipped him off..He says that I bring home guys and charged them money to sleep with them..I don't know what to do..I really love this guy and I know I have not done any of these things, but one think I don't understand he that he seems very normal around others but only towards me he is like this..He even sits and cries and tells me why did I hurt him like this and that he always give me so much love and in return he gets this..We have four kids together and this has been going on for almost more than a year..sometimes he gets ok with me and then he behavior changes again towards me..my family and friends tell me maybe he is acting but I can tell the difference between acting not acting..The only reason they said that is that why is he so normal with others but blaming you only..And sometimes I am even confused..there has been times where he would get very angrly and violent..I am trying so hard to work it out with him and telling to get help but he does not seem anything is wrong with him..I even took a lie detector test with him and he did not believe that either..I am trying so hard to save our marriage, but I think it's coming to an end..I really don't want that..He clearly said that he does not want to be with someone that cheats on him and embrasses him..but we have been going thru this on and off..What Should I do..Do you think he has a problem or acting..

Demon possession??? Really??? This is the 21st century! Did you just blow in from the 1500's or some remote African village? Apparently you haven't had access to quality education, a science class, a library or interfaced with anyone from the medical community working with mentally ill people. You missed the memo...demonic possession doesn't exist! We don't burn mentally ill people at the stake or lock them in cages anymore. That is probably one of the most damaging labels you could ever place on someone suffering from a mental illness. If you want to pray for someone, go ahead but get them to a doctor for god's sake. I hope your post was some kind of twisted joke because the thought that there are people in society who actually believe that satan is at the root of someone's mental disease scares the crap out of me. Ignorance is dangerous and deadly.

I am not a christian and do not practice any religion. I have a degree in Anthropology and Electronics and consider myself educated. The truth is your Modern science has had little more success curing schizophrenia than the average witch doctor. The most dangerous and ignorant postion to take is to assume that the limit of our power of our perception is also the limit of all there is to percieve. If someone had come along 200 hundred years ago talking about unseen energies such as UV, Xray, Radio waves etc they would have called them mad. Just because you cannot see or percieve a demon does not negate the possibility that they are real mo fo. For me I do not know if they do or not exist. I hope I never percieve one. Don't think your science is all that powerful, its very good at predciting outcomes given a set of variables not very good at actually explaining the why of anything. For example they can measure the force of gavity and predict its influence but they don't know what actaully causes every particle of matter in the universe to be drawn to the others.