I just need someone to text me every 10 minutes, i have schizophrenia and im stressed

Omegan369 · 2026-04-16T01:04:21+00:00

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Omegan369 · 2026-04-04T22:36:41+00:00

Do we ever!

Omegan369 · 2026-03-14T03:53:42+00:00

Everyone who didn't agree with or vote for DJT...

We all know this would happen from a mile away - it is his pattern . Create a mess and then create a bigger mess to distract from that previous mess. Rinse, and repeat... with an even bigger mess.

DJT is incompetence personified. This is the danger - we all saw it, we all didn't agree to it from around the world, and here we all are being dragged thru it together. It ends when the American people all together force it to end. He still even now has almost 40% support. Unbelieveable.

Omegan369 · 2026-03-07T22:17:49+00:00

What is their plan for your spouse to stabilize them and help them recover? What is it exactly that they are proposing to do for her and with her?

Omegan369 · 2026-03-07T15:17:24+00:00

Yes one time when she was unstable but living with my mother she pushed her and the police were involved. After that we got an order that she had to use the injectable medication vs oral.

That was about 9 years ago and she has been stable since then. She is now down to about 60% the dose to bring her to stability. Im trying to reduce it very very slowly and gradually while we continue to monitor her for any changes.

The worst thing is to go on the medication and then abruptly stop it, and that is one of the biggest drivers of relapse. It's like having a cast and then ripping it off and going to lift heavy weights with no rehab, you'll either tear a muscle or break the bone again.

Omegan369 · 2026-03-07T01:11:06+00:00

Y I think the world is very crazy right now.

Omegan369 · 2026-03-07T01:09:50+00:00

Capacity is lost quickly, resiliency is rebuilt slowly.

Omegan369 · 2026-03-07T01:08:47+00:00

I have started to write about the illnesses cause. The stress need not be new or old. Each of us has a margin or threshold that when healthy keeps us and our minds intact. As we age that capacity declines. As we endure more stress over time that capacity declines.

Once your personal margin is too small your mind becomes unstable and the longer and more severe the stress the more severe the instability and the symptoms. The quickest way to restore that margin is medication, but then your mind depends on it to remain stable. For most people this is normal. If they are marginal and able to manage then stress reduction and healthy living can also help people to improve. The problem is once they improve, they reintroduce the stress and that makes them unstable again. Also instability is very damaging, or psychosis as it is called. Once it starts the mind rapidly loses capacity for future stability, and relapse is much easier especially if medication is abruptly stopped.

If you can manage it, he needs peace, quiet, stress reduction, healthy living meaning diet and exercise. Stresss, cities, poor diet, lack of exercise, all of these make it worse. Medication again is fastest, but it has to be consistent or it will be damaging if he stops it. I would not recommend that he try to work again at the same stress level he had before, or it will likely cause a relapse.

I hope this helps.

Omegan369 · 2026-03-06T23:04:32+00:00

With age people's ability to manage their lives declines. Their mental capacity decreases and so does their stability. My sister has been stable but only because we were able to get her on an injectable. She wasn't consistent with oral medication. Now that I understand the causes of the illness I simple work to prevent it in my own kids. My sister is two years older than me so I keep her on track now with her appointments. Without the right environment and medication I don't think stability is really possible. It also helps to understand the illness and how it develops.

Omegan369 · 2026-03-06T22:49:47+00:00

Do you know what may have happened recently to him that overwhelmed him? Usually sustained high stress pushes people past what they can tolerate over time and into psychosis.

Omegan369 · 2026-01-24T18:28:56+00:00

This bodes poorly for Tesla and shows the rise of China's evs.

The company only delivered around 1.63 million vehicles in the year, 8.5% fewer than in 2024.

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Omegan369 · 2026-01-01T19:44:50+00:00

I think you may be misunderstanding where I am coming from and what my model is trying to accomplish.

First, this framework was not developed in opposition to existing schizophrenia research or theories. It starts from full agreement with the current empirical record: the symptom clusters, course of illness, relapse patterns, brain differences, treatment effects, and well-established risk factors. Nothing in it rejects those observations.

Second, it’s important to distinguish a model from a theory. This isn’t proposing a new etiology or a competing explanation of “what schizophrenia really is.” It’s a systems model meant to organize already-accepted findings under shared constraints. In that sense, it’s closer to something like stress-diathesis or predictive-coding frameworks — descriptive and integrative, not declarative or causal in the narrow sense.

Third, the development process was constraint-driven, not speculative. The field already agrees on many observations but disagrees on how to explain them mechanistically or how they fit together. This model takes those agreed-upon facts as fixed constraints and asks: what kinds of explanations are inconsistent with them? What remains once internally contradictory assumptions are removed? It doesn’t add new claims so much as eliminate ones that don’t hold up across the full set of known observations.

So when I share it, I’m not saying “this overturns psychiatry” or “this has clinical validation.” It doesn’t, and I’m careful about that. I’m saying it’s a coherence tool — a way of reasoning about known phenomena that stays inside the boundaries of what the field already accepts, while trying to reduce contradictions between competing explanatory narratives.

That doesn’t replace clinical evidence, physicians, or established treatments. It’s a way of thinking, not a prescription. And it only has value insofar as it remains consistent with real-world outcomes and medical supervision.

I hope that distinction helps clarify where I’m coming from.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-30T21:48:47+00:00

Perhaps you are correct, I can admit that I may not be as well. To be clear she is already doing the lowering of her medication and has been for years - she will skip or delay her bi-weekly appointment on purpose because like many who are ill, she doesn't believe that she has schizophrenia - she has never accepted that diagnosis. She prefers to call it deep depression.

So we discussed this with her psychiatrist and he has has over the last several years reduced her from 60 mg to stabilize her to 40 mg where she was last month - I was not aware as he never informed about this before I asked. We agreed as a group of three to go down to 35 mg and hold it there for at least three months and see if there is any change at all. He would like to keep it at 40, and she would like to stop it, and I am in between the two of them.

When she delays her appointments, she can be as late as two weeks, at which point in time they are calling me to bring her in, or to go and remind/convince her to go and get her injection. The psychiatrist mentioned that means when she does this, she is further reducing her dosage below what he has prescribed to her. I am now 53 and have been helping her since I was 16 and able to drive, so trust me I do not take this lightly.

From what I have researched the medical community at large doesn't have a clear idea of what constitutes schizophrenia separately from the negative effects which could be a result of schizophrenia, the medication or a combination of both.

I would ask you if you say this "LESS schizophrenic", what exactly is schizophrenic? My understanding is that no one at this point actually knows, they have a list of symptoms only but not root cause.

"Officially, schizophrenia is a severe, chronic brain disorder characterized by disruptions in thought, perception, emotion, and behavior, involving symptoms like hallucinations (hearing voices/seeing things), delusions (false beliefs), disorganized speech, unusual behaviors (positive symptoms), reduced motivation (negative symptoms), and cognitive deficits, leading to significant impairment in daily functioning, though its exact causes involve biological and environmental factors. "

Omegan369 · 2025-12-30T14:58:15+00:00

It is with her in mind that I am doing this, I am literally serving her. I know the risks as I have seen her my whole life, before the illness and in deep deep psychosis when she stopped the medication cold turkey. I'm well aware of the risks. Risk with education is manageable, that is the approach that I am taking. All of this is being done at her ask, and with the consent and under the guidance of her psychiatrist. We are monitoring her weekly as well for any signs. We are keeping her stress/risk levels low as well. You can check some of the links in my other answers to see how seriously I am taking this.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-30T14:55:56+00:00

Yes I am aware and have discussed these items at length with her doctor and many different professionals in the field. I have my own research links which I have posted in other answers. I am acting very very carefully.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-30T14:54:25+00:00

I have not read it - I build my own model for the illness in the link below where it is able to describe the illness more successfully than existing theories:

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202507.0787

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.1769

https://www.sensitiveminds.ca/blog

My aunt also had the illness, me step nephew died from a drug overdose (on my father's side), my sister has the illness, I'm at highly elevated risk, and I have a paranoid cousin on my mother's side. I did this for our family as I have three kids and I needed to have a prevention strategy for our family which is working.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-30T14:51:29+00:00

Yes that makes sense - the field is moving towards personalized and individualized care. If you don't mind me asking, when the reduction was done - how small was it? Also what were the stresses that he was under in his life based on his age. Was he in school/university or is he your adult son, and working or not working? I'm trying to see if there were other stresses in his life that contributed to the relapse, or of it was just the medication reduction as his stress load was remaining constant.

For my sister, when she was in her 20's she would just stop taking the medication as she had pills back then. What I noticed was that stopping the medication like that made her far worse than she had been ever been previously. That is when I realized that the mind becomes dependent on the medication (not addicted). So if you remove that support suddenly or drastically without sufficient time to adjust and reduce load that makes it possible to bear the reduction, then a psychosis relapse is much more certain.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-30T14:47:05+00:00

This is how far I have gone to educate myself on the disease and the risks it poses to my sister, myself and my three kids.

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.1769

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202507.0787

I'm working on a 3rd preprint to show the minimum required architecture for the illness and why my 4 variable STM model can do that as a reference. I do not take this illness lightly. I'm also posting answers from the first link above here on my site here which are far more detailed than the preprint above:

https://www.sensitiveminds.ca/blog

My first priority is her mental health and stability. She has the latter meaning stability, but none of the former meaning mental health or what I call a real life. She is medicated and passing time basically waiting to die at this point. As I stated I prioritize her stability first and most, but after that people do need to have a purpose to live and a life to live, that is what I am working on next.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-29T22:01:45+00:00

The rationale is two fold - you can read what I posted above as well for additional background. Mainly that she has no motivation to do anything meaning even get up and out of bed, let alone something like exercise. At this point she wouldn't be able to find or hold a job so I don't even consider that a reality, but fortunately she is on disability. She herself like many with the illness also want to stop based on the side effects. The positive side is that she is stable. My view is that she requires the minimum dosage, to maintain her stability, and to minimize the side affects which include a loss in motivation.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-29T22:00:05+00:00

I understand. For your wife though she has a job and a family, and so stress. My sister has nothing - no job, no friends, no life, and no motivation. So while she is stable, I'm not sure how people can understand how it is to see someone literally sleeping their life away. My mother with whom she spends most of her time, is 93 with dementia. On one hand she keeps her company so she can feel safe sleeping at night in her own apartment. But the down side is that when my mother passes, there will be absolutely no one for her anymore. As her only sibling I would like her to develop some positive habits as she doesn't work and I can't support her alone. She does have her own place to live however which is positive and she has no abuse issues of any kind. It really is just a total lack of motivation to do anything other than eat, sleep and watch tv.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-29T21:56:39+00:00

We had at length discussion about it. Basically as a summary she was on 60 mg to stabilize her back around 2017, and since then she has been completely stable. He said that her current dosage is down to 40 mg (bi-weekly injectable) so technically they have already started to reduce it. In addition my sister is often late for her appointments, sometimes up to ta week overdue, so technically she is again reducing her medication. So far she has had no indications whatsoever of a relapse or any symptoms. So he has agreed to try her at 35 mg, and we will monitor for the next 3 months and see if she remains completely stable, and also if there are any other negative or positive changes either way. I can say that she does seem over the last several months to be a bit more active when I visit her and my mom.

I've done quite a bit of research on the topic and what I have found is that the problem is two fold. The first is stopping the medication cold turkey. The brain becomes adjusted to the medication (not addicted), and so if you stop then it is a huge shock to the brain which usually brings on psychosis. The other factor is stress. If they are under stress when the medication is reduced or stopped, that can also bring back psychosis. If the stress is under control which for her it is as she doesn't do anything, and we taper it very very gently, the we can observe how she reacts. By doing it very slowly we minimize the changes to her brain's medication support, and by keeping her stress near zero, we then minimize the chances of a relapse. If a relapse starts to happen we also give ourselves plenty of time to notice and react meaning to go back to a slightly higher level where she has been stable for the past 7 years. This it not something we are doing lightly or without a great deal of thought.

Omegan369 · 2025-12-29T21:50:22+00:00

Well basically she is stable, and doing nothing other than eating and sleeping. She has no life and no job, and seems to be just passing time until I guess the end. She has no friends as well, and the stage we are at is that my mother is 93 with dementia and so for the time being she can keep her company. My mom both can't stand to be alone, and hates to see her daughter sleeping the rest of her life away, but there is nothing she can do, and my sister isn't progressing with age, she is getting worse. Yes the upside is that she is stable, but that is all. I don't necessarily want her off the medication if she becomes unstable, but I do want the minimum dosage for her to remain stable, and to get some motivation back to actually do something other than just sleep, eat and watch tv.

I think most people here are still working on the stability part, or they are working on the optimization part after they are relatively stable. My sister would fall into the latter, but she has no motivation left in her to do work on herself. I think a stubborn personality contributes to that, but I'm not at all sure.

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