My daughter is forever in her own world with visual hallucinations. Auditory are there but I dont think she realizes yet that no one else hears them. She is now 13. Everything crashed at 12 and she has been hospitalized 3 times. She is in the hospital now as I write this, being put on Thorazine and taken off Rispirdol. Rispirdol helped for a year but never really got rid of her hallucinations or psychosis, it just made them easier to deal with. And she is taking zyprexa at night which knocks her out to sleep. (she never slept in 12 years)
School started and the stress that goes with it brought on the scary hallucinations again. Thats when we hospitalize. When she gets scared. She has always been a little different and from the age of 7, they said ADHD but I knew it was something else. She sleeps with a strobe light flashing in her room and the radio blasting country music every night. Shadows come after her and disappear when they hit her face. No mirrors allowed because 6 foot shadow sneaks up behind her when she looks into it. man with no eyes and a boy and girl are at school. The man with no eyes punches her teacher and flips her friends hair in class. Cats everywhere, big black hairy dog, bugs under her skin, bad smells... Some of this for as long as she can remember. The visuals become less at times but with stress they get worse or scare her. She can usually rationalize and say she is tired or stressed.
Grandfather, uncle and aunt with diagnosed sz. BUT.... I have a question. She is not a loner. She is outgoing. She is so outgoing that she drives people nuts. She will tell you she has tons of friends but has none. She is quick to make friends with everyone but cant keep them because she is so intense and extremely inappropriate with her actions. Laughing at the wrong times at nothing, etc. Everything I read and hear says she should be a loner. Quiet and recluse. Shy and quiet. What is going on?