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How can I help my friend ?

Andy
07/29/09
Andy
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Hello

 

Iam Andy from India, my friend is a 33 years old who was diagonised with schizophrenia ( not exactly but something like prior to on set of schizophrenia) at present he is taking 25 mg clozopine every night. He has gone though a lot taking too much of medication and lab tests for the past six years. His confidence level and courage has diminished drastically, but the only good thing is he always wanted to come up in life, his parents do help him but only to an extent, only physically not emotionally and he was married 5 years back and has a child. His wife doesn't know about his disease. But anyway he is just managing. Earlier he had studied in various schools, not in the same school for 2 years, he had difficulty adjusting to new environment. He was a college drop out , only because he war far away from home and was terribly home sick, this really had a drastic impact upon him.  From the age 23 to 33 he has worked only for 5 years, and for the past one year he is jobless. He is interested in stockmarket( because he don't have to deal with the people directly) and at present he is doing that. He use to seek answers by studying about schizophrenia and desperatly wanted answers for his survival. He had sexual problems and he always said that having sex only drains him away. He use to say that he had tremendous amount of stress building upon him and sometimes he ejaculates without his concinse, this makes him very tired and bad. He was angry towards people and nowadays he feels very tense when interacting with the people ,he says its only making him worse. After browsing through net and books he says Iam schizophrenic and I just have to beg for support  though out my life. He says people dislike him and whatever he tries to convince them only makes things worse.

So what can I do to help him and what are the things he has to do to boost his confidence. Please advice.

Thanks

Andy

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Daleri
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I have been working at the same job for twenty years

I am very grateful to be happy because of some of the sad places that...

Thursday, July 30, 2009

As far as the illness, there is not too much I can say but I do know that what we do has a lot to do with how we feel. If we do things that give us personal satisfaction as far as achievement is concerned, we will be happy to have that sense of significance and value. We reap what we sow. If we are of use to society, we will be happy because our conscience is satisfied. This is why it is good to take inventory of the things that we do to see if they are giving us satisfaction.

Christina Bruni
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Christina has been in remission from schizophrenia, and out of the...

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Hello Andy,

 

You friend might want to talk to a therapist or join a support group.  E-mail me privately at the Connection for the name of a woman who wanted to start a schizophrenia support group in India, if that is where your friend lives.

 

Sometimes, talking with other people who have mental illnesses will enable him to feel like he's not alone and that there are people who understand what he's going through.

 

You also could tell him to join SchizophreniaConnection, as you have, and he can write SharePosts and Ask questions.  We are a supportive community and will give him encouragement as he navigates living with this illness or a related illness.

 

A upport group would be a good way to boost his confidence.  Also working at some kind of job or volunteer work or taking a course in something.

 

He has a good friend in you and that is also why people recover: they have friends and family who stick with them after they're diagnosed.  So I'm sure you will be there for him and your friendship also will be a big confidence booster.

 

Regards,

Christina

 

 

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