Hearing voices and seeing stuff that is not real does not mean she has scizophrenia. Voices and hallucinations can be very intimidating, maybe giving them names is making them less intimidating (I never named mine)? First I thougth they were real, even to other people. I would hear someone shouting outside the window and i would go there and check who it was. When I realized noone else heard it I started thinking it was dead people trying på communicate with me, some of them nice and some of them mean. Now after the psychosis I have a theory that it was my subconsious talking to me. It is important that she talks about what they are saying and why she thinks they are there. What is her theory? It is important that she realizes that she is sick and that she experiences things that other people cannot see/hear and that it will pass. It is hard to describe what it is like, but it feels like you are waking up in a dream, you do not know that the dream is not real. My shrink says that you can interpret the experiences like you interpret a dream.
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I am a woman, soon 40 with two children. I live in Stockholm.
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