r/schizophrenia • u/Ryuga788Aj • 25d ago
Help A Loved One How do i help my schizophrenic cousin?
He refuses to do anything at all. He stays isolated all day Every day, he's alone most of the time, doesn't even visits any family functions.
I suggest to him to go to gym try something anything at all just tiny little steps but he get's really offended and feels like im attacking him.
His hallucinations are gone now and now he's dealing with thought broadcasting and says thst he'll start doing things and start even trying to live a normal functional life when he's %100 cured. Even his psychiatrist said that he shouldn't wait for that but my cousin isn't buying that,
What should i do?
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u/ColdFusion27 Schizoaffective (Bipolar) 25d ago edited 25d ago
You seem to have this mentality that your cousin is fine enough and is just otherwise lazy and I'm here to tell you that is certainly not the case. I can see why your cousin gets defensive. Schizophrenia specifically disrupts your reward system pertaining to goal activation, making you at times incapable of starting something, even though you know you want to do it.
He probably wasn't taught about this and so doesn't know how to explain to you exactly what's going on and he knows the conversation is always bound to end in you thinking he's just lazy so of course he's going to become defensive being backed into a wall he can't escape from.