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Dear Concern My mother is going through a severe mental stress. Anxiety,fear is there. She is screaming, she is always thinking that somebody will kill her children and family members. She is not sleeping at night.Always telling us that some body is planning to kill her or her family members,she can heard all this things We are consulting an neuro psychiatrist for that.He has given some medicin.For last two weeks. But no improvement Kindly help me what to do, how to deal with this kind of paitients.
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She may be suffering from schizophrenia in which miracle is not expected by the treatment. Go to the consulting psychiatrist again and ask him that what is the reason she iz not improving.
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Obviously your mother has delusions of persecution/ and hence reacting to it and could be hallucination. She needs rest/ antipsychotic medication/ sometimes antidepressants if there is Psychotic depression. You may review condition and find out the correct diagnosis and treatment.
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