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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SageAngel" data-source="post: 765436" data-attributes="member: 33368"><p>I appreciate your input very much, and I am listening. I came here asking for advice, and that is what you are giving, so thank you. I am not at all  offended by what you called bluntness. I prefer real, as opposed to candy coating something. I wished to do a medication wash while she is in a lockdown medical facility. She has no chance of getting her hands on any illegal drugs. She will likely be in this facility for 3-4 months, and then a residential treatment center, which is also lockdown, for another 6-9 months. So it is medically supervised  and secured 24/7. My main reason for this is to determine whether she needs drug rehabilitation first and foremost, or mental health rehabilitation.   At the present moment she has no insight into her illness. She will probably benefit from both types of treament, but they may differ in subtle ways. If she has true schizophrenia, I have no problem keeping her on medications, but she has to learn to be medication compliant, as you are. She is taking Invega Sustena, which she hates, but by next month she will be able to take the 3 month injection, and next will be a six month injection. She mostly hates the weight gain, but while she was here and in sober living she ate a diet that consisted of mostly junk food. Whilie in sober living she had the opportunity to go to the gym with her sponser. But she lacked motivation. Which is also a part of schizophrenia. If one sits around eating junk food, comsuming lots of sugar, and does not move the body, of course they will gain weight. The last time she was hospitalized in 2020, she was taking Zyprexa. She gained weight in a very short time, so she quit her medications, and quickly found her way back down to methamphetamine lane, and fentanyl highway. My sister stood by helplessly , but also made the excuse that she didnt like being overweight. Well who does? And she thought it was ok to get some meth to lose weight. But it quickly spiraled out of control once again, and before she knew it her daughter had become psychotic and violent.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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