my boyfriend is probably suffering paranoid schizophrenia

Hi everyone, im Italian, so forgive my spelling mistakes... Im writing because im really worried about my boyfriend. We've been together 4 nearly 7 years, we used 2 live 2gether (up to a month ago). On May 24th he started hearing voices, all telling him i was cheating on him. He had always been jealous, but things had never got 2 this point. I have 2 say that since i met him i've left all my friends,i've neglected my family, i never went out with anyone else ( apart 4... let's say 4 or 5 times when i went out 4 a pizza with my collegues, all women).
What im saying, i know, is very generic. I just hope that on this forum there's someone who's had the same experience or, even better, is an expert, a psichologist...
He really believes I gave him some drugs because i didn't have the courage to tell him i had met someone else. Obviously this is not true. At the same time i know that this is absolutely REAL in his mind. Next Tueasday he's got an appointment with a psychologist of National Health Insurance; i know what will be: he's very clever, he will appear as a ill-treated man, the psychologist will tell him i'm his problem and that he has 2 close with me.
Obviously there's so much 2 say! Really hope someone will answer. please.

Tiziana

I am moving your thread to Schizophrenia as you may get more appropriate replies there

titzy wrote:Hi everyone, im Italian, so forgive my spelling mistakes... Im writing because im really worried about my boyfriend. We've been together 4 nearly 7 years, we used 2 live 2gether (up to a month ago). On May 24th he started hearing voices, all telling him i was cheating on him. He had always been jealous, but things had never got 2 this point. I have 2 say that since i met him i've left all my friends,i've neglected my family, i never went out with anyone else ( apart 4... let's say 4 or 5 times when i went out 4 a pizza with my collegues, all women).
What im saying, i know, is very generic. I just hope that on this forum there's someone who's had the same experience or, even better, is an expert, a psichologist...
He really believes I gave him some drugs because i didn't have the courage to tell him i had met someone else. Obviously this is not true. At the same time i know that this is absolutely REAL in his mind. Next Tueasday he's got an appointment with a psychologist of National Health Insurance; i know what will be: he's very clever, he will appear as a ill-treated man, the psychologist will tell him i'm his problem and that he has 2 close with me.
Obviously there's so much 2 say! Really hope someone will answer. please.

Tiziana

Hopefully the psychologist has more smarts than that, as there are over 75 physical-neurological signs of schizophrenia, and it affects eye gaze, how people put together a sentence, muscle tone, etc, so it is not only affecting thought and behavior. And most even psychologists, with any experience at all, should understand that. But some of them are not very good at recognizing schizophrenia even so. A psychiatrist (with medical training and specialized training in schizophrenia, bipolar, etc) would have less risk of that.