A few weeks ago, I noticed that Schizo-boy was starting to pull away from me and conversely start sticking to his mom like glue. He was also having a harder time creating sentences that made sense and his paranoia was starting to come back.
Then I noticed a post on a social media site that we have in common where he was VERY depressed.
I asked him via SMS if he thought that his meds were working okay for him? He spilled the beans and clued me in to what was going on... his meds are definitely not right, strong enough, or something. I suggested that if he was not happy with the results of the medicine that he was currently taking, he should talk with Dr. Psyche. He took my advice and the doc cranked up the dosage level on his meds.
That was a little too late as we could see the cracks getting deeper. :-( But, I think that he will not have a full blown psychotic break thanks to the higher dosage. Still, there are those pesky cracks.
Here are two perfect examples of the cracks;
1) We took him with us to dinner with a neighbor to a pizza & beer joint. I noticed after awhile that he wasn't drinking his beer. Eventually, he asked the waitress to change it out for a coke because "there's something wrong with the carbonation and it must be a bad beer." He repeated this very thing the next evening when we all went to a restaurant to celebrate his brother's birthday... only this time it was with Sprite.
2) He told his mom today that he fell asleep while listening to his mp3 player last night. He wound up sleeping through an entire album. When he woke up he was scared because he didn't want to be affected nor controlled by subliminal messages.
There are 10's of ways - which are more subtle - that happen when he gets this close to a mental break. Rolling his eyes like a horse that is frightened, unable to handle social situations, being very paranoid about things that I touch that are his, being around me by himself and of course trouble mastering the English language.
*sigh* All I can say is, thank GOD that he is under the care of Dr. Psyche.
...all I got!
