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Major depression
My mother is suffering from depression from 8-9 years. She went through some medication before but it couldnt help except made her sleep for longer time. Depression become major mental disorder now. We consult a doctor and he said that she is suffering from schizophrenia. She talks with herself whole day and she hears voices of different people, hardly get sleep without medicine, and somtimes get extremely voilent and try to hurt herself and others too. Need to figure it out what kind of treatment she required.
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Ms. Sanheetha Ved
Counselling Psychologist
6 yrs exp
Bangalore
You will need to see a psychiatrist to help with medication for her mental condition.
Once she is comfortable with the medication, she can also see a therapist for emotional support. A combination of both helps patients tremendously.
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