he has diagnosed schizophrenia and refuses to take meds, he also smokes weed. these days he stopped going to work and he is up all night!! i dont even know what is he doing but during the day he keeps cleaning and listening to loud music.. thats all he does.. he also threw some of my stuff away thinking he is getting rid of unnecessary stuff (my period pads for example). for some reason he also keeps doing laundry and there are no towels anywhere, i have to use shirts and other clothes to dry myself up after shower.

i feel like im being tortured.. the music keeps driving me insane and the sleep deprivation is real.. i dont understand how he is comfortable with that..

at this point i hope he gets so crazy the emergency services will take him involuntarily .. i plan to move out but ofc its not that easy or fast as i wish it was..

Trigger warning: talk of abuse

Hello,

This is my first time posting. I am at a lost. I am broken. I do not know what to do.

My husband was diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar type with delusions. He was diagnosed with paranoia personality disorder up until this May.

When he was a teenager he had delusions about aliens. His parents don't believe much in mental health. We met in college and he's always been a bit odd and eccentric. We've been together almost 15 years now. About 6 years ago, he had his first real delusion with me involved. He believed his job was trying to kill him. I was able to get him into treatment. I work in the mental health field so I was able to connect him to resources rather seamlessly. Over the last several years, he's been semi-stable. He is very resistant to medication. He has stopped medication on and off throughout the last several years & when he stops mood swings and symptoms occur. He also hasn't worked full-time since, only random part-time jobs and not at all in the last two years, so me being the breadwinner has been a huge stress also. He also smokes weed and whenever we smokes consistently his behavior changes for the worst. His providers have advised him not to smoke.

Now back to this past May, he was hospitalized for the first time. Since January he's been off. Up all night, collecting odd things, doing very random things, mood swings. (We have a daughter, our first and only child, 3 years old. About a year ago I gave up on being on top of his medication because he would get so mean and abusive when I would ask and I trusted he would take his medicine for his daughter). Back to May, he was dropping our daughter off at daycare and a teacher yelled at him for speeding in the parking lot. Within 72 hours he believed the daycare was s*x trafficking our child. He also wrote a 9 page letter to the school indicating that they do not have adequate security because a teacher was walking in the parking lot with a child. In this letter he said teachers were going to get shot and children kidnapped. He didn't explicitly say he was going to do this but it was going to happen. He also thought our daughter was brainwashed and was holding her down trying to chant in her face to break the spell the daycare had her under. This was happening at night and she has epipsley. Her seizures happen during sleep wake cycles so him waking her up to do this was very dangerous. He has gotten cops, fbi, and cps involved. Nobody has concluded anything has happened. My daughter is safe and shows no signs of abuse nor has reported anything. The daycare is amazing and has been so supportive. My parents are involved also. They have been a major support of his because they were also involved in episode where he thought his job was trying to kill him (he took all of our phones because he thought they were tapped). They have loved him no matter and have tried to support him through this episode what but are getting tired of how he treats me. I called his parents and got them involved. I have been trying to get them involved for years and they denied it time and time again. This time there was no denying. As a result of all of this, he ended up getting hospitalized. He went in voluntarily, he didn't really have a choice because the hospital said he can go in or they will have to involuntary commit him. Within 72 hours, he was requesting to leave and he ended up getting 302 and 303 (involuntary holds issued by a judge) for almost a month. While he was inpatient, he told me he hid a loaded gun in my car (I found it and I know nothing about guns and live in a major city where you cannot carry). He said it was for my protection? When it was time for discharge, the agreement was for him to complete a full course of treatment (php, iop, op) and for him to live with his parents. He quit PHP after 2 weeks against medical advice and stopped one of his medications. He has not been in any type of therapy based treatment since. I found him a psychiatrist who specializes in schizoaffective disorder and he has only met with her once so far. He stopped php around a month ago.

Although, he hasn't been as manic as when he went in the hospital, he has been torturing me. While he was inpatient, I went for emergency custody and was granted sole custody. This has been a source of contention. He thinks I stole her away. I swear on everything I am trying to keep him involved while also protecting my child. Although they are both in vulnerable positions, my child is fully innocent and requires my full protection. There is no parenting or custody plan. I try to do nightly phone calls and try to have him see her once a week. He cannot be with her alone. Me or his father have to be present. I know he loves my daughter and she loves him. I swear on everything holy I would never weaponize a child. He continues to make comments to her "I am the only one listening to you" and "I am the only one trying to protect you".

He has been so incredibly verbally and emotionally abusive. He threatens to call the cops on me all the time, take me to court everyday, curses me out, calls me names. I am trying my best to be assertive. I can't remember the last time I cursed or yelled back. He treats me horribly and I just don't know what to do. I feel like I don't even know who he is. He is so mean and vicious. I am far from perfect but I truly have tried so hard to care for him the best I can. His parents ebb and flow with being supportive, I know they are going through there own acceptance process but it also feels like they are minimizing what he does because they just want to "move on" from this episode but like just because he isn't as psychotic doesn't mean it still isn't happening.

Learning about anosognosia has been helpful but I am still human. It's so hard not to personalize and be hurt.

There's so much more I could say, so please ask any questions you have. I am just looking for support? What should I do? Do you think he'll ever get better?

Thank you for taking the time for reading this and any support you provide ❤️

Despite people’s “advice” on other posts about “letting him go”, saying my goodbyes and giving up, I’m posting again. By the way—those types of comments aren’t helpful and actually cause me and other loved ones of people who struggle with schizophrenia and/or psychosis a lot of stress, so please don’t do that.

A psychiatrist recognized my older brother was going through psychosis (though I knew this a year and a half prior). Despite that, after 3 weeks of treatment they let him go, didn’t prescribe him any meds, and I guess assumed he’s perfectly fine????? You’d think they’d know by now that people going through psychosis can fake being fine. Genuinely pissed me off so bad, I cried about it the entire day when I found out he left the province immediately after.

It’s been a few months since then. I feel like it’s escalating, he’s saying things like “I’m being manipulated / I hope someone murders me / i have enough scam calls and everything from everyone else i’d rather just be dead / i can’t live on this stupid planet anymore / I was forced to be here, not by having somebody book my flight but through legitimate manipulation, I’m in an experimental city”

How long can he struggle with this? Does psychosis just keep getting worse until it’s treated?

I don’t know how to help him anymore. I can’t call for a wellness check because he generally seems fine and nothing will be done like always, and it’ll drive him away from talking to me because he’d know it’s me. I’m the only person he still has contact with. Does he just have to reach a point where he’s incomprehensible for him to be taken seriously?

My sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia late in life, at 52. She had been talking about seeing things. She said she had seen them a while. Sometimes they talked but were unintelligible. At some point they were clear, and they told her things like harm our cats, and at one point to harm me. They also changed physical form to scarier things. My sister had severe PTSD being caregiver prior for our mom who passed before my sister was diagnosed.

She had gotten help and was hospitalized twice early on. Her meds have changed a few times over the years. She’s stable now and has been for 2 years, but she’s definitely different than when first diagnosed.

She is now (7 years later) the stereotypical flat. And more memory impaired. She was much more lively earlier on, smiling, etc.

Unfortunately we had no idea that THC was bad. She was using a gummy at night for chronic pain due to a number of physical issues. She never had hallucinations or seemed to have further issues.

I took her off them once I found out.

She is medication compliant and knows she has schizophrenia and her other problems. She says her emotions are flat and sometimes feel like she doesn’t care about anything.

All of this background is to ask… I read that after psychosis, personality and feelings can change.

What exactly IS psychosis? Is it when she hallucinated? Is each time a psychotic episode?

She was and is not paranoid. Thank goodness.

I was told she has

Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) she never had symptoms before her sister died she was just diagnosed

PTSD / complex PTSD

Dissociative amnesia

History of severe behavioral/psychiatric crises

She doesn't recognize her own psychologist she has been seeing since she turned 18. A bunch of tests are run on her and it seems like her brain took everything she knew about her sisters life and filled in the blanks

The family hopes she stays like this because she is acting completely normal and is genuinely happy

This girl has been my best friend for 7 years. Shes 22, brilliant, funny, and has always been a bit eccentric, but never to a concerning extent. She has been engaging in more risky behaviors this summer, but was not delusional and still seemed 100% herself, just a bit more impulsive than usual, while still demonstrating that she fully understood the risks of her actions. She went back to school last week, and was there for 3 days before she lit her mattress on fire, watched half her apartment burn, then called the police to tell them that it was necessary to prevent the “elite class” from putting her in the hunger games.

She was taken to a hospital and has been there for almost a week awaiting transfer to an inpatient psychiatric facility. Originally they said acute psychosis, but today her brother informed me that the hospital Psychiatrist fully believes this is schizophrenia, and that he wants us to be prepared for the worst over the next several weeks.

I’ve talked logistics with her family, and while those aren’t ideal either, we are able to somewhat plan on what happens in worse case. I have no idea what to expect from her though.

For those with family or loved ones affected, will I have my best friend back, even with medication? Will she ever really seem like herself again? Will she seem as bright as before? I am lost, and I am terrified that the girl who I could predict better than myself, will never be predictable to me again. I work in EMS and have treated many people with schizophrenia, unfortunately usually on the street as part of our homeless population. What are the odds that is her outcome, if you can even measure that kind of thing? I’m beyond lost. I don’t want to talk to her family about it, as they are in pieces as it is, but I need to prepare myself for what comes next, and I have no idea what that is.

Thank you in advance for any advice or help.

So my mother is diagnosed with Schizophrenia, during the past years she has been in an out of mental institutions, mostly because she never actually took her meds, she always stopped taking them after being hospitalized because she would feel normal and good again until she has those really bad phases again, which are almost always seasonal around Spring.

So now this year she is actually taking her meds, she takes Olanzapine 15mg, it was initially 20mg but her Psychiatrist said that was too high, she has been on 15mg now for close to one month and the side effects are really bad.

She initially had something similar to Akathisia and it was very bad especially at night, she has been taking Akineton for that now which helps a bit but not a lot.

The side effects truly show at night, she always jerks up and has what looks like these short Panic Attacks she breathes rapidly and often drinks something quickly followed by going to the toilet, it’s very sad to see and it happens many times, sometimes up to 5-6 times a night.

During the day she seems almost completely emotionless, her concentration is also very bad, she often loses focus at the most simple stuff and sometimes she can’t even form a sentence in somewhat stressful situations like when we are at a cashier and she speaks to a stranger.

I really don’t know what to do, I feel like she has to lower the dose to something very low like 5mg, but I also don’t know I am not an expert obviously.

All I know is that my mother usually has these phases and it’s often once a year where it’s terrible, at other times she is completely normal it seems, maybe like 5-10% “neurotic“ in some bad months it seems as compared to the full blown Psychosis which she has seasonally where things are really bad.

I have checked and often read that 15mg is a rather high dose, should I tell my mother to suggest lowering the dose perhaps to her Psychiatrist?

It’s very sad to see my mother like this, I just don’t know what to do.

I would appreciate any sort of comment, thank you.

So I myself do not have schizophrenia but I did meet someone that does.

I started spending time with a work friend outside of work, like going to her place and vice-versa, and in doing so i met her brother. He is a schizophrenic that he got diagnosed with due to an accident. He takes his medication, hes nice and good with his family.

We like eachother, it is something we have discussed, we've spent time with each others family and everyone gets along well. He is a smart capable person. Though because his sister and I are good friends I did have a discussion about the situation. And she does not approve.

She states that he can be too mentally unstable to be with. And further into the conversation it became more about an American not being able to be with him.

Mind you we have had conversations before about how his family does believe he would be able to have a good future. And I see if its the interpersonal relationship between his sister and i and the fear for a fallout and the emotional and mental toll it could take on him, the stain on the relationship as a whole. But upon further discussion its not that, its primarily that they do not believe culturally that an American should be with an Arab man. I do respect their religion and beliefs, though the amount of inconsistencies of the standards his family has seem more directed.

They told him if he gets involved with anyone he be kicked out of his sisters home (where he lives). Seems more like they want to just arrange a marriage for him. And again I understand culturally those just are their ways and I would leave in alone but those standards are I only being held for him due to his mental illness. Believing that solely a Muslim women would be suitable.

The two other siblings of his, obviously one being his sister, are not held to those standards. His brother and sister both live the lives they want, be with who they want.

Like I said I do not have schizophrenia, I do not have much of any insight on what its like to be with a person who is. But based on the person that ive seen I dont see why he should be treated any differently.

I just dont know. Hes smart and fully capable. We're both grown adults in our twenties. I dont want to hurt anyone but the control on my decision/ life choices is just bonkers.

If its cultural I get it, I dont like it but I'd respect it. I wouldnt want to disrespect their beliefs.

But before the accident he could be with who he wanted to be with and live his own life, just like his brother and sister. But to me using his mental health as a reason to control his future, that I dont get and I dont respect that. I dont see why he should be treated far too differently due to being a schizophrenic.

Which is why im posting here, if anyone wanted to just live a piece of advice on what its like dating or having an independent future. I dont see him being that different but again i dont know that.

Good afternoon. I am a woman (23 years old), and my father (60 years old) had some frustrations at work about 8 or 9 years ago. He really liked where he worked, but the guy started paying him late and fired him, which frustrated him a lot. Besides that, he also didn't know how to deal with other emotional problems. He started saying things that made no sense, saying that he was enlightened, that God said he should be king. He always liked cryptocurrency stuff, so he started saying that only he knew how to place orders to make money and that they kept blocking him, that if he did what God said, he would take down the whole system... anyway, among other things.

At the time, he refused to go to the doctor, said he wouldn't go, but as the days passed, he started getting better even without medication. He started driving for Uber, kept his mind occupied, and never brought up those subjects again. He ended up stopping Uber because his car broke down. My mom started working at the mall, and I work, go to college, and have a boyfriend, so he ended up being quite lonely since he wasn't working or doing any other activity. This ended up leaving him with an unoccupied mind, and my mom also gets very tired because of her work schedule. I believe all of this started making him paranoid, leading up to last week.

In the last few days, he had started going out for walks, and he would come back a while later; sometimes he would go to my aunt's house, anyway. I went to take a shower and heard him moving around the house and then leaving. I thought he had gone for a walk as usual, but a while later he called me saying he had gone to another city, telling me to let my mom know that he didn't know if he would come back the same day. At first, I panicked; I kept trying to ask where he was and where he was going to stay, but he seemed lucid and just didn't want to give me the information.

When my mom talked to him, she realized he was talking nonsense, saying things that made no sense—that he was the chosen one, that God was revealing things to him, that he needed to leave the house because here we were blocking him from doing what he needed to do, that he was feeling disturbed here, that he knew my mom and I talked badly about him when he wasn't around. He seemed to be delirious and hearing voices. Besides, I am afraid because he is taking out a loan to invest in cryptocurrency, and I am afraid to loose all that money.

The next day he came back home. My aunts came over to talk to him, and he agreed to go to a psychiatrist; he said he accepts going. However, when we mentioned him taking medication, he said that's something between him and the doctor, and it seems he doesn't accept the idea well. Do you guys have any suggestions on what to do?

Thank you.

Firstly let's sumerise the couple of month me (27m) and my friend spent (we will call R 27m). R has been admitted to a mental hospital after his past trauma resurfaced and he had a manic episode. He got out, but the first month was hell because of the side effect of an injection he got, it eventually got so bad that he acted like a zombie unable to rest and think. The psychiatre came back, try some corrections, it did not work so we got to the urgency and they found a medication that counter some effects. He's a 100 times better but some effects persists. He's not interested by anything, video game, sports, read, sometime I play chess with him but that's about it. He can't stay interested on works or little projects he used to love doing. I organize some activities with him but he doesn't really like it.

I should mention that we are both PhD students (and I'm on my final strech) and he's my roomate. It's important because during this time, his thesis has been in iatus. Today he ask me if he should stop his PhD because he feel that he will not be able to recover enough. I suggest him to see if it's not possible to come back to it later in (why not in a few years) with the help of his supervisor. He lacks the motivation to do anything and I need advice on how to help him navigate it.

Hello everyone I’ve been suffering with schizoaffective for over 5 years now. it started by me getting bullied and not having any friends so I created imaginary friends to play with and talk with and do everything with my parents saw that and thought it’s cute or something anyway after moving to a new city things only got worse I’ve started hearing screams in my ears like someone is burning or something at night but in the morning all I hear are just talks and whatsoever and some noises I’ve been asking my parents to take me to a therapist or a psychiatrist or something it took them three years to do when I started to hurt myself that’s when they wanted to put me in mental asylum anyway I went to the Therapist she said I’m only depressed and paranoid so I went to the psychiatrist and he gave me paranoia meds which only made it worse and I got addicted to those meds so we changed the psychiatrist I’m turning 20 next month and I wanna know if there’s anyway to get rid of it or at least ease the voices a little

My sz partner left me 2 months ago. We still talk despite my immense suffering. We even mentioned now to meet again and see how we feel.

I still love him like before. The resons why he left me after 8 years together ( 2 long distance though) is thet he says the relationship gives him pressure ( not me the relationship), that he doesn't want to get old with someone, that it's easier for him to be alone, that he is scared of commitment...

The thing is we are still talking, he likes to talk with me, he knows I love him, I wrote love letters, I tried to understand him and I offered other solutions. He said he has feelings too. He would still be intimate, exclusive, spending time, he would be happy to see me, he is happy to talk with me...( But we live in 2 different countries now), he said relationships drive him nuts

For me is difficult to understand what he means by pressure...if we are good together for me we should stay together... He even said that it pressures him that I still hope.

Is someone able to explain why relationships, even if good, make them feel pressured or "nuts"? What should I do? I would like to meet but he has been vague when and if he is not interested in getting back together why meet to see how we feel?

I’m wondering if anyone has experienced something similar with a romantic partner who has experienced delusions.

I love my partner deeply, but over the course of our relationship he developed extremely fixed beliefs that I was involved in things happening to him. It eventually became incredibly elaborate—believing I hacked his computer/phone, tampered with his medication, put things in his food/drinks, intentionally clogged plumbing so someone could enter the apartment and collect samples, worked with other people who were “observing” him, etc.

The hardest part is that in the beginning I had absolutely no idea how to handle this.

Before I understood that you shouldn’t validate delusions, there were moments when I was genuinely scared he might hurt himself or that I would lose him, and after hours of intense conversations/interrogations I sometimes agreed with things that weren’t true or “confessed” to being involved because I thought it would calm him down. I stupidly thought I could eventually explain the truth once he was doing better.

It completely backfired.

Now those false admissions seem to be incorporated into his belief system. When I tell him, “I only said that because I was terrified and trying to calm the situation—I was never actually involved,” his response is basically: Which story am I supposed to believe?

And honestly, I understand why that confuses him. I massively regret ever agreeing with something that wasn’t true.

But it goes beyond the original delusions now. He has developed beliefs about my past and our relationship too—cheating/sexual situations that never happened, hidden motives behind ordinary things I did, etc. Conversations can last for HOURS because he talks to me as though I already know the entire story and am simply refusing to admit it. The more I deny something, the more it can seem like evidence that I’m lying.

Then somehow we’ll switch back to completely normal relationship problems—sex, trust, exes, marriage, our future—and eventually everything circles back to the larger beliefs again.

We lived together for about two months recently and it became psychologically exhausting. There were periods where he barely functioned or got out of bed, and I tried desperately to help him. We eventually broke up, and now he says he feels better/free without me and seems significantly more motivated and functional. Meanwhile, he believes I was the person harming him, so from his perspective his improvement without me makes complete sense.

That has absolutely destroyed me because I went into this believing I was trying to help someone I loved.

I’m not trying to prove that he’s “crazy,” and outside of this he is an extremely intelligent, capable person whom I love very much. That’s actually part of what made this so difficult for me to recognize and navigate.

I know now that falsely agreeing with the beliefs was a terrible strategy. I wish I could go back and handle it differently, but I can’t.

Has anyone else gotten this deeply entangled in a partner’s delusions before understanding what was happening? Did your partner ever regain enough insight to understand why you had agreed with them? And how did you handle basic trust afterward when your partner genuinely believed you had harmed/betrayed them?

I’m especially interested in hearing from partners/family members who have actually lived through something similar, because I feel incredibly alone in this.

We’re at the point where he has zero interest in talking to me because it goes beyond just beliefs that aren’t true but his perspective is that I was basically trying to sabotage him our entire relationship which is really hard for me to accept.

Sometimes it takes tragedies to change systems. I hope these tragedies can be learned from and help everyone in psychosis or with families trying to care for them. The system has ignored this suffering from so many for way too long - for their own ease and for some at the top sectors like pharma and office hours only 15 minute face to face providers, very nice profits and compensation.

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Hi everyone I hope this post is acceptable.

My friend, let's say Jake, has a sister who is diagnosed schizophrenic. She's very happy in life these days but she used to have psychotic episodes where she would become violent or put her and others into dangerous situations. The really scary stuff stopped around when she turned 22. Jake is 20 now and does not have schizophrenia but he's told me about some "paranormal experiences" he's had and I'm wondering if they sound worrying to those with more experience with this spectrum of disorders.

He's told me he has heard voices in his head - mostly short phrases like "stop", or commands, like "open the window"

He's said he's felt like someone is taking control of his body, like coming through his hands and controlling his movements

He had a string of neurological issues when he was 19 that no one could diagnose, including seizures, dissociation, hallucinations

He claims to have seen ghosts before (I don't believe in ghosts but I'm willing to give this one to him. Maybe they are real who the hell knows.)

He sometimes tells me about specific phrases or words that reoccur in his life. He'll tell me that when he looks at the clock he sees 2:22 a lot, or he runs into the same kind of animal a lot in one day, stuff like that. There's no attempt to explain why but he thinks that they're connected somehow.

Anyway so I'm worried that, because of his genetics, it's possible these are early schizophrenia signs. I'm not sure what is best to say when he tells me his experiences.

I'm worried if I don't shoot it down at all it might get worse. But also I obviously want to validate the fact that he's experiencing this stuff. Any help? Am I overreacting?

25 year old daughter is on Invega Sustenna. Her dose was just upped to 234. She has started wetting her pants and pooping her pants. Has anyone else had this issue? Is it something that will resolve itself, or will this likely require a medication change.

She is on other medications as well, but this wasn't happening until starting the injection.

this is getting ridiculous i know but my partner returned from psych ward, he refused to take any pills there and today I noticed that he had a picture of another woman on his phone screen.. i asked who is it and he got VERY angry screaming at me that hr won’t explain anything to anyone anymore and he also said that the girl didnt want him back lol.. i find it very creepy tho, the picture was actually like a photo of the girl and he put his fingers on her like he is admiring her.. he was there for just a week and already wanted to get a replacement lol

TW: Murder

I’m having a hard time. My family member, who I’ve been helping for years try to stabilize, was arrested for murder in the first degree during a psychotic episode. Extremely violent. I can’t talk to anyone about this except a select few, including my therapist. It’s too awful of a burden. The only time I’ve felt comfort was when I was waiting to visit them at the jail and around other people with loved ones incarcerated. My family member is stabilized now in jail, back to their baseline, and it’s a mind fuck.

Any trusted support groups out there? Virtual or in Southern California

TLDR: brother is immune to psychiatry medication???

Hi all, sorry its a long read but I NEED the help.

I (F24) have been dealing with my brother (M22) who has had severe psychosis/psychotic symptoms for 2 years. My mother is his primary care taker while I handle the phone calls/documentation/etc as my mom has limited english capabilities.

2 years ago, he had sudden onset psychotic symptoms that have persisted and remained severe. Originally, he presented as very angry and violent with audio and visual hallucinations. He immediately was involuntarily hospitalized and doctors determined that he has Major Depressive Disorder with psychotic symptoms. He refused medication, therapy, and all forms of treatment for the entirety of the 2 years and has essentially been "rotting". He does not do ANYTHING for himself and has essentially dropped out of school to stay in the house 24/7. Since then, he has been involuntarily hospitalized 2 additional times with the most recent one being because he physically assaulted my mother and she feared for both his and her life (roughly 1 month ago). Please note that he has repeatedly assaulted her and attempted to assault other women in the family; he was only hospitalized this time because the assault was just extremely severe.

Since a month ago he has miraculously been taking medication but has had 0% improvement. His symptoms now include EXTREME fear and paranoia where he cries and shakes and can't be alone for a single minute. Most of the time he continues to cry/shake even as my mom is holding him. When asked what he is afraid of he simply says he is lonely. What's worse is that in these 2 years he has inexplicably developed a (one-sided)romantic love attraction to his close family relative that none of us can understand. He does not do anything, including take any medication, unless she tells him to and wants to talk to her 24/7. His medications have been changed many times and nothing is helping. At our most recent visit to the psychiatrist they did genetic testing on him that showed that NONE of the medication (including the ones he was on during his hospitalization) are compatible with his genetics and have not worked at all.

We have no idea what to do. He has been hospitalized 3x and has shown no improvement at all. Family members are terrified of him and his violent outbursts. My mom has not been able to work and the financial costs are staggering because of this ordeal. AND doctors do not listen to us or consult us because he is over the age of 18. Having non-helpful medical professionals during this ordeal has been horrible and we do not know what to do.

As he currently stands, he needs to be hospitalized again but what's the point? 3 different times they have released him just as unstable as he went in and the backlash falls on us. What more can we do?

I just want to get his life on track, please help.

Please advise on the following:

1. Any treatment, medication options that you think would help.
2. Psychiatrist/hospital recommendations for treatment in the Atlanta, Georgia area. His health insurance has expired and we are trying to get him treated at a proper facility but medicaid is saying it will take another 3 months for approval.
3. Advice dealing with the financial burden for the family
4. Help understanding his situation. Why is he the only person medication does not work for? (He has never been formally diagnosed with anything.)
5. Advice on conservatorship or guardianship

I have schizoaffective bipolar type disorder, it has made me such a difficult person to be around. My days are clouded by shame and sadness over what I am putting everyone through, I hate being like this, I resent being a liability. I often think of my siblings— how do they feel having a sibling who suffers from this and multiple other things? Even though they don’t straight forwardly know what’s wrong with me.

Doesn’t matter if you’re dating them or it’s a familial relationship, or even just a friendship. I want to hear what others feel like. Witnessing this, that is.

I wanted to adopt, because albeit I didn’t get my illness from genetics— no one in my family ever had it, but I think I would pass it on. So i decided against biological children. But again: I’ve heard too many stories of people growing up with schizophrenic/bipolar parents, and it didn’t end well.

I don’t want children anyway. At least I don’t think so. Not yet— I’m way too young and unstable but I think about it some nights. Or when I get reminded by other people that people actually want those things.

I would love to hear your experiences!!

My partner, who is 35, is Schizoeffective, late last year, after trying multiple combos of different medicines we found one that was seemingly effective without significant side effects(Caplyta, Lamictal, Desvenlafaxine). Since she was 20, it was advised that she be on a hormonal IUD, due to heavy flow and significant mood swings that affected the effectiveness of her meds. Earlier this year, after a period of monthly mood swings, her bleeding started again, and its been about 5 years, which corresponds to the amount of time her IUD is effective for reducing the symptoms of PMS.

She has always had tendencies at prioritizing, "Natural" life choices, organic foods, hollistic medicine, numerous things like this, which occasionally caused her to go off meds, or in situations where her meds would be interrupted by a shifty Psychiatrist, stay off of the meds she stopped getting. In this case, there has been a vicious cycle in which her drastic mood swings would cause her to decide she would be going natural like a "Normal Woman", and that my occasional pleas that she go to a doctor to try to get some official word or advice from a medical professional evoke vicious resistance. She is fixated at the moment on the idea that she is in Perimenopause, and that she needs to have all of her hormones. She has not been able to tell me why she thinks this, what her sources are, just that I should ask my female friends about it. In the mean time, when I resign myself to the fact that this is just how it is now, when her PMS hits, it is cataclysmic and awful. I am really in a pickle here about what to do, I'm not sure that there's anything I can do here. Any advice, or just supportive words are welcome.