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amandalouise · 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by joshuas-mommy

They have happy delusions that cause no one any harm.

I know someone who did not take their medications for their schizophrenia and had very harmful hallucinations and delusions to the point where

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they ended up being killed by the police because their delusions and hallucinations would not allow them to surrender hostages (family members that they had harmed and in one family member murdered)

I know of many with schizophrenia that have not taken their meds and ended up in prisons, and others that

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have successfully committed suicide due to harmful delusions.

my suggestion give the meds a try. I know a few people who took their meds and after a while no longer needed the meds because the meds did the job so well. give the meds a try.