My mom has schizophrenia and won't take her meds?!


Question: My mom has schizophrenia and won't take her meds?
My mom has had schizophrenia ever since I can remember but I've never really seen her have a relapse .
I'm 17 and I'm her only child. Her and my dad are divorced. She relapsed couple of months ago. Its started off when she would say horrible things to me about how worthless I was and that I was a mistake.

She hit me all the time and I found it so hard to concentrate in school because I was so worried about her safety. She kicked me out of the house and I lived with my dad for a couple of days (he lives out of town). Then one night, in the middle of the night she broke into his house and she started screaming and crying telling me to come home with her because her ex boyfriend Rob is coming to rape me (we haven't seen him in 3 years and he has moved countries) my dad took her to hospital and she stayed for a month.

When she returned my dad gave us a load of money to help with her financial situation. She started taking her meds for the first few weeks but she was very moody. She would snap at me, hit me, made me feel worthless and she wouldn't let me go outside because she thought every guy would rape me. When I was lying on the floor studying near the tv she flipped at me for not taking the dog for a walk that morning and she pushed the tv and it hit my head. She then started crying and saying how sorry she was for hurting me. She has hallucinations and tells me the most weirdest things a person can think of and she keeps saying "when I get killed..." -this that and It's scaring me and my dad told me that we should put her in care and that I should move in with him. I don't want to leave my mom I love her too much and she is my best friend but I'm scared of her. I just want my old mother back but she refuses to take her medicine. I had a panic attack at school because of the stress of her and my exams. What do I do!? I'm so lost!

Answers:

I'm a couple of years older than you and I know what its like living with mental illnesses and family members who are suffering, its not nice. I understand you don't want to leave your mum but the best thing you can do now is ring up and professional, your doctor perhaps or social services (but this could lead her to being sectioned) and ask them for advice. Maybe you and your dad could discuss together what's best for her. Get her into hospital or care asap and then you move into your dads because if you don't it could become worse and you need to concentrate on your exams. Your important too! I actually wish you the best of luck <3



Your Mom is endangering you, you need to move in with your Father. Your Mom has a disease and she needs help, you are a child and need protection. Staying with your Mom is very dangerous.



use ur brain. GET HER HELP. and move out to ur dads place, then move back with ur mom when she is truly rdy



You're dad is right. She should be put in care. That is the only thing that will help her or you. To save her you must understand that you can't do anything medically for her. If she is having hallucinations, hitting you, and being all around paranoid, then you have to move in with your dad, because the reality is she is not going to hget better if she is not in the proper care, taking her medications. So do what your dad suggested and move in with him, get her to a mental hospital (at least commit her for a 72 hour period) and go from there. I don't know where exactly you are so i can't be specific with it, but your dad should know, or you can call a local hospital and ask what to do if you don't know a place. Good luck, and you'll make it through this. I've dealt with much worse.



Here is what you do: Get her a therapist and your father may want to rent a house nearby to take you if any serious thing happens due to therapy. She might get pissed at you for getting her a therapist and ask her therapist if you could sneak her meds into her food or beverage. She is at a serious stage of schizophrenia. Don't take her to the mental hospital if your not okay with seeing your mother suffer. Therapy should work the best so she can understand the reality. Be careful and stay strong. Good luck with your exams.

I am an OCD person and I am taking therapy little by little.




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