My son diagnosed ad schizipherenia two years back. He is now ok and taking 5 mg of olanzapine salt since last 1 year. Doctor is not sure to stop or reduce the medicine. My son is 23 years old and is a teaching faculty at AAKASH. Can you suggest any way out or equivalent medicine in homeopathy so that olanzapine could be stopped.

Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist48yrs exp

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Schizophrenia can be a very crippling disease, if treatment is tampered with by amateurs or by lay people. You must strictly follow doctor?s instructions. To me your son is seemingly doing well, and holding on to a job with major responsibility. If you push the expectation on him at this juncture, you may reverse all the benefits, inadvertently. Instead of worrying about changing medication, I recommend that you put him on some counseling along with the medication. This will help him develop coping skills that will stand him in good stead. Medication may be reduced, subject to certain conditions, but if you are thinking that he could be taken off of it, I seriously doubt that. The counselor will put him on some Cognitive Behavior Modification program and according to the improvement may suggest review of the medication with the psychiatrist. Now that is the way to go about this. Please do not even suggest to your son about reducing medication in any form. Let it come from the professional, ideally. 

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