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Schizophrenic, and trust issues
My mother is schizophrenic and thinks my father has external affairs. She wouldn't listen to anyone won't take prescribed pills and is becoming toxic for everyone. She has become verbally abusive. How to make her listen to us to take pills. Please help we have already consulted psychiatrists before but she would hide or throw the medications. We are very helpless.
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She may need admission...there are long acting injection option is there and some medication form available, which can be mixed in food or liquid
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Dr. Rayees Ahmad Wani
Neuropsychiatrist
13 yrs exp
Srinagar
Hello,
You can give her medication covertly till she accepts of her own.
Also we have long acting injections available for this condition.... They need to be given at monthly intervals roughly.
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