Psychoanalysis Questions

Schizophrenia
the love and support of family and friends plays an important role in schizophrenia treatment and recovery. If you have a loved one with schizophrenia, you may be struggling with any number of difficult emotions, including fear, guilt, anger, and frustration. You may feel helpless in the face of your loved one’s symptoms, worried about the stigma of schizophrenia, or confused and embarrassed by their strange behaviors. You may even be tempted to hide your loved one’s illness fr...more

Hi lybrate-user,
risdone mt 0.5 mg is sub-optimal dose even in geriatric population, to treat schizophrenia. The minimum effective dose is around 2 mg per day. So, please discuss with your psychiatrist to consider increasing dose of same.

Hi lybrate-user,
olanzapine is an antipsychotic medication used in illnesses like psychosis or schizophrenia. It is used in dose range of 5 to 30 mg per day. So, 15 mg per day can be considered a moderate dose.

Since you are feeling good with this prescription, you are advised to stay with this treatment. Homeopathy cannot treat severe mental disorders. Instead, I suggest you seek a counselor's help and work with that therapy in tandem with the medication. As you improve over time you can consider modifying the drug. In counseling, you will learn skills, techniques, and tools to handle schizophrenia and its complications. This can equip you for life. The emotional side of this condition particularly ne...more

Dear lybrate-user,
schizophrenia has both positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thoughts) and negative symptoms (tiredness, lack of interest in any goal directed activity, lack of pleasure, restricted vocabulary, apathy, etc.) probably you would have become alright because of relief from positive symptoms. The negative symptoms also need treatment (amisulpride and aripiprazole). Please don't stop these medicines. Discuss with your psychiatrist. She/he may add an antidepr...more

Dear lybrate-user,
as I have already answered, schizophrenia needs long term maintenance dose of tablets. Relapses are worse to treat. You have not had any relapse since you were continuously on tablets. Your doctor is reducing the tablets, its dose and to less powerful tablets like aripiprazole. Let your doctor decide how long you will be on 15 mg. Since you don't have much side effect with aripiprazole, why don't you take it till the doctor decides the maintenance dose and tablet.

There is no proven science or method that can do that, it is all waste of time and money frankly. I strongly suggest to spend time with your child if you want to know what is going on in their hear and mind - it can be eating together, walking, watching tv. It will not happen in 1 day or 1 week, be patient it will happen when he/she starts talking to you and start sharing what is in his/her mind and heart.
Most important: give time to him/her, make sure you listen when they speak what ever i...more

Dear Thulasi,
You can take all these tablets along with acupuncture. Don't stop, especially sizopin and encorate.

First of drink lots of water. Then make sure that your aged parents consult a doctor at the earliest for an anti dot. May be a small food poison may result. Nothing more. Treatment required.

Dear Sarkar,
Please get your serum lithium level done, 12 hours after the last tablet. If it is less than 0.8 mE/l, try increasing lithosun s r to 800 mg.