I'm looking for any insight that might help me be able to understand how my mom processes information and help her go to the doctor. She suffers from untreated paranoid and disorganized schizophrenia. She had various skin wounds due to her picking at them but might be skin cancers. She is afraid to go to the doctor because she feels that she's caused this condition and she's afraid of hearing it is cancer. I've been talking to her for several hours a day to try to make her strong enough to see a doctor. Today I had her write down questions to ask a doctor if he were sitting right there. Tonight I'm having her write questions that she thinks the doctor will ask her. I have been encouraging her and praising her every step of the way...encouraging baby step while stressing the concern for her health. I just wonder if there would be a better approach. We live in different states.I have already flown to her to help her to a doctor with no success. She wanted to talk about it until I had to come home to my young children. There are no siblings or family members to help...just me and I want to do everything I can to help her be healthy in every way. I just need a little help.