People Who Are Friend/Family
posted 08/20/2009, comment (1)
Spouses living with someone who suffers from Schizophrenia
My husband suffers from Schizophrenia, and for the past 5 months he's been hospitalized. (He was just discharged yesterday) and everytime he's hospitalized atleast for the first 2 months he stops talking to me cuts me off financially. But this time when he got out he never made an effort to contact me. I think it has a lot... Read more
posted 08/16/2009, comments (7)
Delusions
Can anyone tell me about delusions? This seems to my son's biggest issue right now. What's it like? What works best? How do I talk to him about it? Why if he's having these, does he do so well in school? He is in a RTC right now and is very very quiet is that because of the delusions? He feels that he is doing okay until somebody else... Read more
posted 07/28/2009, comments (17)
Helping our son, help himself
Our son has always been such a wonderful person....caring, gentle, well mandered and always respectful. He has been living with this "illness" for just over three years and is now 22 yr of age. Just after high school graduation he was living away from home, working as a waiter and going to school full time when he started becoming paranoid. After... Read more
posted 07/27/2009, comments (6)
My dads story
Hi my name is Dean and my dad is a alchaholic schizophrenic from the age of 6 i remember visiting hospitals waving goodby not realy knowing what was wrong.At the age of seven i stood between him and my mom to stop him hurting her i think i was braver then than i am now. As i grew up he got worse and my mother left him when i was 7 but he never... Read more
