Posted by alienatari on October 18, 2007, at 20:59:01
In reply to Re: Stelazine, posted by river1924 on October 18, 2007, at 17:09:22
If I did that I think my Grandmother would have a heart attack and die as its her worst fear would be having social services involved. (she is always screaming about how they are going to take my aunty away from her anyway).
To be honest, social services have been nothing but trouble for other members of my family and I dont know if it would help. When my other aunty had her child she had a psychotic episode and was severely depresesd (basically she was raped when she was younger and she couldnt handle that she had a daughter and not a son because she didnt want the same thing to happen to her daughter. Many years later the man that raped her found her address and started to send her notes saying he was coming to get her daughter. Nothing was ever done by the police, i dont know if there is anything that could be done. My cousin changed schools and came to live with my family). Anyway, as she was in the psych ward DOCS (social services) wanted to take her child away. She was married and still lived with her husband but they felt it was too much of a risk. God knows how my parents managed this, but my cousin was legally adopted by my parents (which was against their wishes).
My cousin lived with me (we are more like brother and sister) and so did my aunt and uncle for a while too. Like I said above, she went to the same school as me from grade 3 and we went to the same high school too.
I dont want to force a new medication on my aunty. I want her to see a psychiatrist and have an adequate evaluation of her condition and be medicated because she needs to be medicated as she is a a danger to others. I would be (and so would the rest of the family) quite happy if my Grandmother would give her her stelazine which has controlled her symptoms for over 20 years. I can however understand why she wants her off this drug as the side effects are extreme (in her situation at least). But ignoring her past violence (stabbing my grandfather, bashing my mother in the head with a pot until she was unconscious and was found by someone who stopped it and took her to hospital. It happened in their front yard.) Thats just two examples of how violent she is, and she has done similar things many times.
> As hard as this may be to both of them, your grandmother should care for herself. She may already need some assistance to care for herself adequately. I feel for your grandmother and aunt. But it would seem new arrangements need to be made. If it is the only way, contact social services yourself and find out what the options may be and/or make an anonymous tip about the situation. It doesn't really seem safe to change meds unless your aunt is somewhere with people who can monitor her. One person, even your grandmother, shouldn't be expected to do that.
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