Kevin Nguyen3 said:Since you're my fellow traveler on this journey, I managed to scrape together a little bit of time...😉
In your specific situation, does it even matter if his diagnosis is bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? Does it?
I once knew a patient where the doctor was trying to walk him through all the nitty-gritty details regarding his illness and such.
At one point, the doctor calls him by his name.
The man didn't even blink an eye. Not even a flicker!
The doctor had to call him four separate times before the man finally muttered "pardon" after several minutes had passed?
All his functions were completely shot—his perception (he was just staring blankly at a wall covered in pictures), his spatial orientation—but one thing remained: consciousness.
He was essentially in an unconscious state. Let's call it a milder variation of an absence seizure, shall we?
This is exactly what happens with a psychotic patient like yourself.
The internet? It isn't some coincidence. He lost his grip on reality, and his entire perception of the world is totally distorted, with or without the web.
As for everything else, you might be better off just forgetting about it. I don't know how much older you are than him, or how old he actually is, but indirect help is really just a matter of—well, letting go.
Maybe you don't see it that way yet, but that is the reality of it.
The contracts were signed while he was conscious and acting responsibly. You aren't going to achieve anything here. Nothing!
It is all psychosis and the consequences of that condition—or rather, those episodes.
Whether they admit it to us or not, the parents carry the responsibility for everything happening right now or whatever happened in the past. Sadly, that is just how it is.
A younger son, ill, perhaps a bit spoiled—whether out of a lack of understanding or simply out of love—but a misguided approach creates massive problems later on.
My warm advice to you? Send him back to his parents and you stay close to your own family. Stick to your kin.
While you are still healthy.🙄
Don't go equating bipolar disorder with schizophrenia. In my experience, most people living with bipolar are just relieved they don't have schizophrenia, much like most people with schizophrenia feel a sense of relief that they aren't dealing with bipolar. I can't quite put my finger on why, but for me, the latter has always felt significantly more grueling, though I suppose there’s a certain hollow comfort in telling yourself the alternative isn't quite as devastating. You see it in the hospital wards all the time, where patients claim having schizophrenia is actually fine, simply because they've convinced themselves it isn't something worse. It's almost as if they treat schizophrenia like a common cold—something easily managed or brushed off—and I am fairly certain I heard the head psychiatrist at the clinic say something to that exact effect, a sentiment several witnesses apparently confirmed, though nobody tends to believe me anyway.
I recall that when staff at the hospital would call out different names, it was usually the nurses or technicians doing the calling, whereas I don't quite remember the doctors using anything beyond my actual first and last name. The rest of the crew seemed to find plenty of amusement in it, though perhaps I gave them enough ammunition to start playing around with various nicknames. Eventually, once the whole thing became tiresome, I simply stopped responding—which actually happened toward the end of my stay. My only real issue with the joking was the realization that the doctor might eventually weaponize it against me, since I had essentially come up with most of those ridiculous titles and nicknames myself just to join in on the fun.
Nicole Barrett76 said:Suppose an individual experiencing their first psychotic episode is brought into a psychiatric ward against their will and refuses to cooperate. In such a scenario, would the medical staff "merely" conduct a psychiatric evaluation before admitting them, or would they also insist on a full physical examination? After all, how can one be certain if the symptoms are purely psychological or if the patient is simply under the influence of narcotics?
It happens constantly, this cycle where they bring in some psychotic individual who lacks any prior history of mental illness, often through involuntary commitment when the person isn't cooperating, only to run them through a battery of tests. Who’s to say the patient isn't simply performing? I spent my entire life feigning insanity just to see if everyone would buy into the act, yet now that I am putting on the performance of being perfectly sane, absolutely no one believes me. It all comes down to perception, though truth remains an elusive thing—not that I can help myself from making such a joke.
My psychotherapist actually told me that posting on this forum was off-limits, so naturally, I’m following orders to the letter. At least I'm staying consistent with my medication, or at least the specific pills I feel like taking, which is enough to maintain the illusion that I am perfectly normal, despite how often I find myself having to insist upon it.
The forum is easily my biggest headache.
