Buddy in his 70s first time pschosis

I wrote out the story but Im upset dear friend like family going through the psychosis hell.

Do my best knowing what I know having been through the hell myself try and guide in the right directions best I can.

I wrote out the story in more detail then deleted. I will say he is in bad shape thinks family is imposters. A stress anxiety snowball as far as I can tell lead to it. I know how that goes.

It just sucks I know what psychosis really is and know the system and how outside observers behave.

Do my best be a good friend try guide his way back. This sucks.

To experience psychotic symptoms for the first time at that age does not sound like schizophrenia or anything like that. It sounds like lewy body dementia or some other form of dementia which cause hallucinations.

I'd agree I would say dementia or even Alzeihmers.

Update.

I forgot I even posted this but after months and months he just came out of it, I am going to see him this week I will get the timeline of how long he was like that, my original post was August but he is fine now like it never happened. He has been okay for months now.

I was the only one who understood,

I told him the very worst part is everyone saying "why don't you just".

The very worst advice people give to other people going through any of the mental stuff is when start by saying "why don't you just".

Its scary because if he didn't have his wife and two adult children a teacher and airline pilot who were involved every day every step of the way I have no doubt the doctors would have stuck him in psych and very possibly he would have never recovered.

Absolutely would have went to psych, he was combative in the hospital but had all that family watching out and that didn't happen.

Ill update this more later.

See if he's on anything that has brought about this turnaround. My dad started getting apparent psychosis, something that strongly reminded me of schizophrenia, but was in the end I'm sure some form of dementia. Alzheimer's or some other sort.

His wife put him on some sort of mushroom supplement, and he started getting high-dose B vitamin therapy. For the space of a year or so, that combination managed to reverse his symptoms and he was more his old self. In the end, however, the dementia won out and what he was on ceased to help. But it did buy him a year or so of being mostly rational.

Snaga wrote:See if he's on anything that has brought about this turnaround. My dad started getting apparent psychosis, something that strongly reminded me of schizophrenia, but was in the end I'm sure some form of dementia. Alzheimer's or some other sort.

His wife put him on some sort of mushroom supplement, and he started getting high-dose B vitamin therapy. For the space of a year or so, that combination managed to reverse his symptoms and he was more his old self. In the end, however, the dementia won out and what he was on ceased to help. But it did buy him a year or so of being mostly rational.

He is all back to normal and if he was taking stuff he probably would have told me.

I don't know what else to say all I know is everyone kind of thought he was done stuck like that but made total recovery.

Oh well, that's good to hear! Thanks for the update!