Hey,
I just wanted to ask other people with the disorder what they thought about the situation I’m in with my mum. Basically she was diagnosed with schizophrenia a few months ago when she was a carer for my Nan, this job was really stressful and she started having hallucinations and hearing voices (which she was doing years ago when her sister died)
Because of this I decided to contact social services and they took my Nan to a nursing home..it’s been a few months and the voices and hallucinations have apparently gone away, even though when my mum talks about them she states they were real and people next door who were agents of this man she’s been talking to since she was 9?
I am really confused about this and I don’t understand what her brain is doing at all and if I question it she just gets mad saying that I don’t understand.
A lot of the time she’s fine now, she’s got together her appearance and seems a lot happier however once a day she has 10 mins where she’ll go on a rant talking to herself about how people aren’t to be trusted, for example today it was how her cousin had alternative motives than trying to help her.
Another thing that’s weird is she thinks everything bad is caused by this man she’s been taking to since she was 9?
My mum gets very angry at people trying to help her she responds with stuff like “I’m not a child” “I’m 50” etc
The mental heath recovery team said are coming round every week but my mum doesn’t trust them and honestly seems quite scared of them, she says she thinks they have the wrong person etc.
So I’m not sure what to do now ideally she’d need a therapist for the paranoia? She won’t talk to anyone who comes though and I’ve been asked by the dr if I thought she needed to be hospitalised but I really don’t think that would be helpful as she’s not opening up herself.
I’m at uni quite a lot of the time so I’m helping from there however I visit on weekends etc, I’m going to talk to her therapist again next week but I doubt she’ll talk to them soon.
Any advice or insight?