question (long) - can an untreated schizophrenic have a chance at having a real !
Question: Question (long) - can an untreated schizophrenic have a chance at having a real relationship?
he rescued me when i had another guy harassing me - my next door neighbor. i''ll call (next door neighbor John). and i'll call my own boyfriend Sebastian [not his real name but just on here]. John was being very harassing and he finally got pretty much kicked out of the complex. don't get me wrong John and i had a history - there really was a time when he and i were "friends with benefits"...don't even get me started on John!
so um...yeah anyway he broke up with me, Sebastian did. Sebastian has a mental condition called schizo-affective. wish i could hide it because of what i will tell you happened. im not ashamed of him himself please don't get me wrong. it's that i get so terribly confused because he has the untreated kind of schizophrenia which he fails to recognize. if he didn't have these problems, which i will describe, then i'd understand and i wouldn't share with many people about his disease. but he fails to take his medications! and likes to self-medicate by drinking. he starts to say stuff that doesn't make sense to me and blames me if something's wrong. i'll take him as he is because he really was beginning to comply (with treatment).
he started talking bad about my family and started to say things because my parents pretty much forced me to kick him out of my apartment due to being Catholic and saying it was "living in sin", which part of it i do agree. but this was just temporary and we were helping each other! so now he's mad because i told my family about his illness (which i had hid from them for several months) but another reason he's upset is because i told him about my dad saying he was a coward! something i didn't have to say because it was no big deal anymore - my dad isn't mad anymore! now he's all delusional (in my opinion) about how my family's out to get him!
in any case, is there any chance for us?
Answers:
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Depends on a lot of things, if Psychosis is one and constant then no.
When treated however I believe we have better deeper quality
relationships that the 'Average" person! * see below.
Great Question Angela How's The Baby Coming Along ?
Mars Mission.
*Because we've known more suffering.
Instead of focusing your hope on a relationship that might not end up happening, perhaps you could try helping Sebastian for his own good. A good book you can read to help someone who doesn't accept that they need medication is "I Am Not Sick: I Don't Need Help" by Xavier Amador. It's a book that fills a huge gap in the literature about helping people with mental illnesses when they don't realise that they're ill and need help.
Hopefully, you'll be able to work with Sebastian to get medication for him that he will take. With the help of medication, there's no reason why you couldn't have a working relationship.