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Mental health/unrealistic obsessions

Mental health/unrealistic obsessions

Hi, I have question regarding my husband who has schitzophrenia.

Does anyone else find that the person really obsesses over a particular thing even though it never actually happened? My husbands fixation is very much on peadophiles, in the begining it started out as something that could have been believable but soon turned into this enourmous unrealistic things. He is obsessed with twitter, to the point where he won't put his phone down and just keeps refreshing constantly and tweeting to any politician/tv personality he can, calling them peadphiles and drug traffickers, or what ever is the focus of the day. That alone could lead to him losing his job if it was ever seen from his employer.

So I guess i am just trying to see if this happens with anyone else? If so, how do you deal with it, as i can't seem to get any help from his doctors or friends. When he gets like this he gets more and more distant to eventually the point where he won't talk to you at all anymore and the voices start putting the 'run away' ideas in his head.

Meds are also a bit of an issue, as only the "good" ones he will take, not the antipsychotics.

Thanks

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My darling husband hates people so even the kindest nicest person can be in the firing line of his intense verbal hatred. I have learnt the art of profusely apologizing for his behavior without him knowing otherwise I am the target of not being loyal to his paranoid delusion. He did run away as a 15 yr old and lived homeless and as a derelict for several yrs on the street. But as I remind him that was nearly 35 yrs before we met 12 yrs ago. I wish sometimes I could rub out his baggage of abuse in history with an invisible eraser. But then I think it has also made him my beautiful loving husband from beneath the MI.

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I know that feeling of intense hatred in the eyes of our loved ones. That’s when I realize it is not him. It is his MI....it still hurts like hell but it’s separate from my loving husband. I hope it is for you as well. Gentle hugs. 🌼

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How are you going @Jkate?

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