And just when we thought things were going well...

I haven't been on the forum for a few months because things have been going well with my teenage son who has schizophrenia. After 12 months of hospitalisation, suicide attempts and psychotic episodes, we finally found the right medical regime for him last December. Since that time, he has been great. He attended school everyday in term 1 and is achieving his potential at school. He has found a part time job and was playing baseball. As parents, we became complacent, even thinking at times that perhaps he was just a difficult teenager last year and wasn't really ill. His case management team were also pleased with his change and progress.

i was wrong. Things do change. In the last few weeks, we have seen some subtle changes and warning signs that have again led to crisis. He is withdrawing again, angry and recently had a situation where he got lost and didn't know where he was. He is agitated and angry a lot of the time and says his voices are starting to come back and say negative things to him. He is demanding we buy him alcohol which we refuse to do because he is 16. He wants the voices to go away. We are not convinced he is telling us or his case manager the truth all of the time and don't know what to believe.

He doesn't want to go back to hospital, but would rather go back to STEPS. We are not convinced that this will be helpful to resolve issues, but rather make things more difficult. Last week he had a major meltdown at his psychiatrist appointment which too us 3 hours to convince him to come home. Home is safe, yet he finds it traumatic because he associates it with his thoughts.

I just needed to talk. Feeling very angry, lost, confused, scared and sad.