RE: Paranoid Schizophrenic- Hospital or Jail? UPDATE
another comment here mentions niacin (B3). i would start there then i would alter the rest of my diet. i had to make a hobby out of my diet, or i would be dead. so, i did.
everyone is different. the information is out there. everything you learn, is an increase in aggregate knowledge. it can improve more lives than just the one person.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/34390-schizophrenia-types-hallucinations/
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1972/pdf/1972-v01n01-p046.pdf
i would start here and make alterations to tailor to fit. at the very least it might help slow or stop the degradation caused by the drugs.
i would get checked for heavy metals too.
diet is the most important thing after breathing.
this is what i would do. i can't tell anyone else what to do.
please, use your judgement.
Our problem is that he sees more than one Psychiatrist and they are all saying that he is to far gone now to come back from it with meds. When his own doctors recommend to the courts to just leave him in jail until his hearing, ordering a 60 day assessment to determin if he is really that far gone or is he just becoming this way due to his being angry at the world, makes you wonder. He has not been assessed for more that 2 weeks so maybe this time it will clearly let us know what we are dealing with. That worse part of this is that his son who he is living with at this time, we believe him to have the same illness as his father. This can make for a very toxic situation for both of them. I wish they had just left him in jail until his court date which is this Tuesday. He needs help and none of us are capable of giving the help he needs. Yes we support him, try to talk him down all the time which helps sometimes but this is a man who once got his hands on a gun, drove across the border crossing with it to go kill his brother. As sick as he is, we need our own lives too, 26 years I personally have had to hide from him because he views me as his sons "gate keeper" and that I keep him from my husband. So this puts me in a very bad place if he ever severly went off again. I love him, I feel bad for him and only wants whats best for him and I believe if not in a hospital, then at least in Jail he will be safe and we can stop living in fear of him. His doctors are throwing up their hands in regard to treatment for him. They have exhausted all of their means on him so what are we to do now? Even if he can get on a new drug, the current one costs 15,000 a month, he refuses to take them as prescribed which only exacerbates the problem.
the psychiatrists have brought the situation to the failed state that currently exists. i, personally, wouldn't continue to trust failure.
if his son is suffering from the same then it is more important to solve this, or lose them both.
i have found that fear and anger feed these situations, but cannot be sustained once the underlying dietary imbalances are resolved. i solved all of my addictions through diet, and removing external environmental factors, such as, specifically, mold exposure. once i became healthy, all of my cravings just faded away. my former behaviors seem alien to me now, as if they happened to someone else. it is amazing to have my brain back.
this is true of all but physiological damage, as far as i can tell, but i have seen progress with diet in resolving even TBI.
i believe the meds are dangerous. if he is on SSRIs, then i have little more to say, as i believe these are designed to be addictive and dangerous to get off.
i wish you well, good luck with whatever you decide.
We really have tried everything we can. He eats well and healthy, my mother law was a caterer and always made sure he ate lots of fruit and veggies, along with dietary supplement drinks and natural yogurts. They have trief natural ways also but one of the largest issues is that you can't monitor him when he is left alone when everyone else is at work. When he left to his own wits he undoes everything we have all been trying so hard to help him with. This tells me he is unable to make the proper decisions to take care of himself. We can't quit our jobs to care full time for him so it really is a catch 22. This is what he neede, 24/7 care. My mother in law woke up a couple months ago, he was sitting ontop of her covering her face with his hands. She pulled his hands away forcefully and asked why he was doing this to he. His response was "why, can't you breathe?". He has become so unstable that she now fears for her own life. I can't make any decisions about how to handle this situation, but I can make recommendations and will ask her about taking him to a naturepath to see what they recommend. Thank you for your feedback.
diet is the key. if what is being done is not working then it is not healthy. the fact itself demonstrates this. i thought i was eating healthy food, right up until i got double cancer. if the data disagrees with the theory, the theory is wrong. i don't want you to think i am just berating you, but if the actions taken do not work, they must be changed to find success. if i can help let me know.
I understand what you are saying but how do you control what someone eats without buckling them down and force feeding them? You can't make someone eat or do anything they are not willing to do and this is the problem. He is on the loose, not living in one place, sometimes his car, how do you tell him what to eat during this time? There is an APB out for him now cause he got into a fist fight with his son over an hour ago, got into his car, ran the car into his sons house and then over the neighbors lawns and took off. How do you control what someone eats when this is what we are dealing with?