Posted by ColumbiaU on August 29, 2009, at 1:36:59
In reply to Re: My Wife, posted by Sigismund on August 28, 2009, at 17:58:08
I believe that one of the newest antipsychotic meds, Invega, is now in an injectable form. But whether it's a long acting injection or pills, if a person refuses to take medications then that person simply refuses.
I have had, and I have, a similar situation with my wife. She also suffers from schizophrenia. Her symptoms are CYCLICAL: she is fine for months and then her symptoms begin to bubble up which typically leads to a full-scale psychosis, which has required psych hospitalization. The last time I had to call the police, and believe it or not, they put her in handcuffs, put her in their police car, and took her to the psych unit. This only made her even more terrified.
She's had several psychiatric hospitalizations, each against her will. The result has been that she refuses to take psychiatric medications. I've tried to reason with her but to no avail.
I'm on psychiatric medications too (antidepressants) and I know of the sometimes debilitating side effects of medications. But I think that she DOES need to be on a low dose of an antipsychotic (she was taking Risperdal at one time which was replaced by Zyprexa).
We have a loving relationship but when her symptoms come up she becomes COMPLETELY irrational.
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