Posted by emmanuel98 on December 13, 2011, at 19:14:09
My 23 year old nephew has been living with his older brother and unable to hold a job. His brother called their father (my brother) to tell him something was very wrong. Apparently, my younger nephew (I'll call him Jim) started banging on their downstairs neighbors' door because he kept hearing them saying negative things about him. Jim told his father that he has been hearing voices telling him to kill himself. He was committed for a week to a locked ward and my brother is bringing him home when he gets out. They have prescribed risperidone and ativan. I hope these help. Jim has had two traumatic brain injuries, the first when his drunken, psychotic mother drove in the wrong lane and killed the driver in the oncoming car. Jim crashed into (but not through) the windshield. He was nine and not wearing a seat belt. But my brother told me the doctors are less concerned about that and more about the fact that his birth mother is psychotic and delusional.
This is very sad. Jim has always been a weird, interior, shy kid. He is an amazingly talented guitarist, but unable to connect with others to make music. His older brother thinks he has lost jobs because he talks to himself.
I told my brother to try and find an older psychiatrist, one who did therapy and meds. Older p-docs were generally trained at hospitals where they worked closely with schizophrenic patients and helped them learn to talk about and control their delusions.
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