allegra250New Contributor
Introducing myself
Hi, my beautiful daughter had her first episode of hallucinations when she was 12. Months after her spinal fusion for Scoliosis.
Two years later she is starting her third week of being and inpatient after three severe psychotic episodes that left us all terrified.
We are still waiting for some test results but it looks like they won't find any organic cause.
She has lost a lot of skills in the last six weeks, her concentration and memory is reduced, her speech and cognitive function has been effected. She sometimes doesn't sleep for three days.
Her personality we know and love is dimmed so far that some days it's hard to sense her there at all.
The ups and downs can be extreme from severe mania to almost catatonia.
I walk on eggshells trying not to set off her paranoia, delusions or aggression.
She has been on antipsychotic medication for nearly two weeks and I think in the last 24-48 hrs I may just be able to see her taking a turn for the better.
I have not left her side and have guilt about my other children at home.
What a rollercoaster this is.
