Does anyone else deal with someone who has schizophrenia?

Nobody can force another person to take meds it is against thier human rights. I work with people of all different mentally challenged disorders including this one. I have talked to many doctors and although I have not been able to take any off of thier meds I can say I have gotten lower doses for them. It can be dangerous just to stop a med for skits. If your hubby is doing that well maybe they misdiagnosed him? Just keep your eyes out because the disorder can be triggered by something that could make one aggressive. Good luck!

my partner was in hospital for about six months last year, after a bad reaction to Diazepam for anxiety. it got worse, they gave him all kinds of medications that his medical history clearly shows are not good for him, it got worse, and eventually this was the diagnoses. some medications have been awful with him, and others much better, others with no effect one way or the other. but I can't help being wary, as medications caused it in the first place.

My husband has schizophrenia and he is on medication. If he forgets to take his medication, or he if takes it a little later than he normally does, his thoughts start to get out of control, he says and I tend to agree. When he doesn't take his medication he start talking about the same things over and over and over, and he doesn't listen to me no matter what I say or do. I get the impression that he is "in his own world" and I feel that I can't reach him. I don't know what would happen if he stopped taking his medication, but I am afraid that he would get very ill again. He doesn't want to give up his medication, and I support that decision. I am on medication myself (I suffer from depressions and anxiety) and in a way I would love to get rid of the medication and the sideeffects, but I have tried it, and I became very ill, so I am afraid to try it again. Neither of us enjoy taking medication, but I think that it is the lesser of two evils in our case.

There are some people who really benefit from the meds, and others who don't. There are also people who respond well, fairly, not at all, and horribly. I think it follows a bell curve...anyway. There's no way to force anyone to take meds, but if it helps, you can suggest it to them and hope they go with that. Then again, if they're ever involuntarily committed, they might have to take the meds. It all depends on their state of mind.