PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA

PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA:

Schizophrenia is a Greek word meaning 'split mind'.

(I wonder what the English word is?) Seems we borrow words from all over the world, but have none of our own in English!

So, it is as I thought it would be...there are very few Government Health websites covering this subject. I have a nephew who has suffered with paranoid schizophrenia for the last 25 years. He is 43-years old. Has not lived his life as most people do, have girl friends, go out with the lads to a pub, club, whatever, never got married and has never fathered a child. In fact, he has lived a nightmare the whole time instead.

Another subject the Government Health Authority does not cover too well, is the matter of withdrawing local Mental Health Institutions, such as psychiatric hospitals once used as assessment centres and stop-overs for treatment assessment in order to get the right balance of medication (before) sufferers are let out into society. Because of this withdrawal of resources, many sufferers are governed only by support teams often with GPs who know virtually nothing about their patients who suffer with paranoid schizophrenia, who are sent out onto the streets where many commit suicide and some commit murder.

The system is failing my sister and many other people like her. She tends to her son because there are no more resources to take the strain off her, she has effectively lost 25 years of her life as a carer and hardly, if ever, gets a break. Doctors sometimes refuse to believe her when she tells them her son is getting worse, or needs an increase in certain medication, just because her son tells the doctor he's fine and takes his medication as prescribed and when, which he sometimes lies about. Many paranoid schizophrenics actually believe there is nothing wrong with them and secretly do not take their medication, and this is when it all goes horribly wrong for the sufferer and their family!

In Norwich, Norfolk, there are no resources left to my sister where she may have been able to send her son to for a few weeks so she could enjoy a break from her son. The stress and strain his condition causes, is tremendous on both of them, though she loves him dearly, very dearly, and because she cannot get a break is stuck with him 24/7 even though he has his own flat, which he spends a lot of time in, but from time to time stays the odd day with his mum. And when he is in his flat, she worries so much about him, she often goes there to keep an eye on him causing more stress. He finds it impossible at times to live alone, and seeks the comfort of companionship with his mother at her home, and the nightmare continues for them both whether he is in his flat or at his mum's home for the day.

Our mutual "other" sister who lives not far from her, has six children and thought more about that fact than sparing her sister just a few minutes to listen to her, and complained bitterly that her problems were far worse than having one son with a simple illness! What lack of compassion and understanding; she must have a heart of stone! Who cares? No one cares, and there is virtually very little help from local and central government. It may interest the ignorant public to know that such sufferers of paranoid schizophrenia are potentially suicidal and dangerously close to committing murder when left to their own devices out on the streets, but the government don't care...it's your problem not theirs they would tell you if the truth came out! Especially the problem of those who have a child who has gone out and committed either suicide or murder, their loved ones were most certainly let down by the authorities, as too were the victims families. My nephew complains bitterly that everyone is conspiring against him. I think the Government are conspiring against paranoid schizophrenic sufferers and their carers and family by deliberately cutting off local services to save money and don't care whether such sufferers go out and commit suicide or murder, at all!

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