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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 635384" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Funny, I have recently taken my research of mental illness to include psychosis/schizophrenia, something I really never experienced or understood. I'm going to say, perhaps differently than others, that while your stepson certainly seems unable to live with you or manage his illness, that psychosis is a different animal that what most of us are dealing with. Psychosis is a real, very frightening (to the patient) and solid excuse for not being able to follow rules. Their thinking is so delusional and so fragmented that half the time they don't know what is real and what isn't and in my opinion the best thing you and your partner can do for him is to find him a group home. But I wouldn't treat him as if he were "bad." He is definitely one of those difficult children who is quite ill. Often they don't take medications because they can't...they forget...or the voices in their head tell them it's poisin and not to take it. It's a scary world. I would try to find him a safe place that can give him structure and monitor his illness, including medication. This is not self-induced and he didn't ask for it.</p><p></p><p>This youtube video simulates somebody who has psychosis. I just listened to it myself and was shocked at how bad it is for the patient. I had no idea that psychosis could be this scary and life altering. It is truly something to pity rather than to get angry about. Ok, here's the YouTube video! Hope it moves you the way it moved me! Should give you a better understanding of your stepson and what he needs and how hard it would be to function while psychotic, hearing voices. It drove me nuts just listening to it! Imagine if you couldn't turn it off!!!</p><p></p><p>I don't think you can call somebody this sick as disobedient. He is sick. This auditory hallucination film doesn't even touch visual hallucinations. This is a very ill young man, not a bad one. There are other such videos are YouTube.</p><p></p><p>[media=youtube]JTUEX5ZkzIU[/media] </p><p></p><p>Here is another really scary b ut good simulation. It has pictures in it.</p><p></p><p>[media=youtube]SN1GCoVzxGg[/media]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 635384, member: 1550"] Funny, I have recently taken my research of mental illness to include psychosis/schizophrenia, something I really never experienced or understood. I'm going to say, perhaps differently than others, that while your stepson certainly seems unable to live with you or manage his illness, that psychosis is a different animal that what most of us are dealing with. Psychosis is a real, very frightening (to the patient) and solid excuse for not being able to follow rules. Their thinking is so delusional and so fragmented that half the time they don't know what is real and what isn't and in my opinion the best thing you and your partner can do for him is to find him a group home. But I wouldn't treat him as if he were "bad." He is definitely one of those difficult children who is quite ill. Often they don't take medications because they can't...they forget...or the voices in their head tell them it's poisin and not to take it. It's a scary world. I would try to find him a safe place that can give him structure and monitor his illness, including medication. This is not self-induced and he didn't ask for it. This youtube video simulates somebody who has psychosis. I just listened to it myself and was shocked at how bad it is for the patient. I had no idea that psychosis could be this scary and life altering. It is truly something to pity rather than to get angry about. Ok, here's the YouTube video! Hope it moves you the way it moved me! Should give you a better understanding of your stepson and what he needs and how hard it would be to function while psychotic, hearing voices. It drove me nuts just listening to it! Imagine if you couldn't turn it off!!! I don't think you can call somebody this sick as disobedient. He is sick. This auditory hallucination film doesn't even touch visual hallucinations. This is a very ill young man, not a bad one. There are other such videos are YouTube. [media=youtube]JTUEX5ZkzIU[/media] Here is another really scary b ut good simulation. It has pictures in it. [media=youtube]SN1GCoVzxGg[/media] [/QUOTE]
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