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Schizophrenia
Hi, My mother suffers from schizophrenia.
She got it 2.5 years back. She would listen to sounds that did not exist, she would feel some one is hurting her loved ones. She would say bad things to others. While medicines were effective but she suffered from constant constipation, bloating, belching and insomnia and also lost interest in working. The only thing she talks about how medicines made her life worse. Now she only takes 1/4th of prescribed medicines and cries many times and blames us for those medicines. Every morning she cries for at least 3 hours. However symptoms which she initially had do not exist. What to do?
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Dr. Suleman Virani
Psychiatrist
13 yrs exp
Nagpur
Your mother is having schizophrenia and that is very well treated by professional. The question is side effects also have negative impact on psyche of patient to take it long term. There are 50% patients who stop medicines and relapse. So make sure she discusses her problems with psychiatrist and medicine modification could be done. Also the possibility of depression is definitely there. Doctor can treat that as well and her compliance will definitely increase. Good luck.
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