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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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it has been unusually hot in our apartment this week and most of the past three days have been spent mitigating that

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[โ€“] kionite231@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please do not force her to take meds if she doesn't want it. Just try to convince her to take meds.

I am also a schizophrenic and I haven't took meds for 2 months and I am doing fine except minor inner conversion and imagining past event with slight variation.

[โ€“] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

I literally said I cannot force her to. I just made it an available option. Which she has thankfully taken. I'm hoping it will be enough to bring her back from the edge she has been on for the past month.

I know another schizophrenic from work, and while it doesn't affect him in exactly the same way it affects my wife, there are similarities. Much with anything person related, each one is different, if even just a bit. What's severe for her might be minor to others, and what's minor to her might be severe for others. In my wifes case, she starts this very slow spiral downwards as the voices increase in intensity, and beyond the paranoia stage for her is a complete cognitive collapse. We've been through that before and she was 302'd as a result.

For my one coworker, the worst he seemed to get after being off his meds for 6ish months was just a loss in focus on work, but he was allllllll about exploring abandoned houses looking for antiques and sorting through his number of storage units to catalog and auction/sell his found trove. Still very functional, mind seemed all together.