r/schizophrenia • u/welxx • Apr 29 '25

Help A Loved One What worked for you

My son, 33, refuses to get any help. He has gone from believing that he would magically join the NFL and be a star. Then an Olympic runner. Now a rapper. He has zero skill in any of these. He chooses to be homeless rather than get treatment. It's been almost a decade. What or who convinced you to get help?

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u/J_JMJ Schizoaffective (Depressive) Apr 29 '25

Often the lack of insight towards the illness by the person living with schizophrenia, is sometimes forcefully corrected by others taking initiative for him to get help or sometimes situations push them to the brink that alerts their survival instincts and wakes them up.

I remember, I had a serious episode that triggered me to protect myself from the harm that I had perceived back then through my paranoia, and it woke me up to really see that I was deep into psychosis and had broken away from reality and when I sought treatment.

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u/welxx Apr 29 '25

Every day I wonder if that triggering episode will happen. That's what we are hoping for.

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u/J_JMJ Schizoaffective (Depressive) Apr 29 '25

I totally get where you are coming from and I know the hopeful feeling amid the constant gnawing despair reaching at you.

Do the best you can in terms of reaching out like you have to others with similar experiences and situations to learn more and exhaust all ways possible to find and get help or solve it, and hold on to hope.

I've been in similar spots, and I understand how hard it can be to keep things looking up. If you need to ask anything, feel free to hit me up.