Posted by Snoozy on May 9, 2003, at 23:02:11
In reply to Is it the voices?????????????????????????????, posted by canwetalk on May 9, 2003, at 22:23:19
Hi - I'm sorry your daughter is experiencing such difficulties. I wish I could be of more help, but I know very little about schizophrenia.
Reading your post did, however, remind me of an article I read in the New York Times online in the last few days. It's about how researchers are paying more attention to voices in schizophrenia and current research on them. I found it very interesting. I'll copy the link here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/health/psychology/06VOIC.html
If the link doesn't work, just go to the New York Times website, and scroll down to the Health section. Then click on All Headlines. The story is titled "Experts See Mind's Voices in New Light". (And if you find the article interesting, you may want to print it out as I think their articles go to pay-only after a certain amount of time).
I really hope things get better for your daughter - I can only imagine how painful it is for you too.
> My daughter has schizophrenia and her behavior now has gone from bad to worse. At her day program she has been screaming and today had knocked a pan off of the stove with burgers cooking. Thankfully she was not hurt nor anyone else.
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> My question is when a person displays behaviors like this are they hearing voices that tell them to do these things? When she was on Risperdal she did not display thing like this. However the Risperdal was not working for her so it was discontinued.
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> The Abilify is 15mg and hopefully an increase up to 20mg may help. Wondering if something else should be added. This is really getting hard for us. It is hard for her to express or communicate so we really do not know what is going on in her head. Any suggestions or information would be GREATLY appreciated.
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