Treatment Adherence

When someone with schizophrenia stops taking medication or skips other treatments, it can be frustrating and difficult for loved ones. You may naturally feel powerless. However, you have more influence than you realize. Here are several ways you can help.

• Make your support contingent on adherence. It’s common for loved ones to support the person financially and provide them with a place to live.
• Help them find effective treatment. Get your loved one involved in therapy and working with an experienced psychiatrist.
• Set up reminders for medication. Use pill containers, checklists and signs to make remembering to take medication much easier.
• Try injectable medication. With an injection, the person does not have to face the decision every day about taking medication, and remind themselves every day that they have an illness.

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Hallucinations - Sean Blackwell

 

Sean Blackwell made this super informative video. He seems to have been helped by first getting ample professional psychiatric care and then taking careful responsibility for his illness. He seems to have found a way to thrive and feel complete. He has a lot of videos and information and has even written a book.  
Check out his website: Aware Silence