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Originally Posted by rhz10
Thank you for your response.
We may be nearing the point where she may be more open to hearing my perspective on what's happening to her. When that time comes, I'd like to show her some online resource which clearly explains why psychosis may be the cause of what she's experiencing. The resource should have a list of risk factors (e.g., social isolation, family history, etc.) and symptoms (e.g., types of delusions, poor self care). Can you (or anyone) please recommend such a resource? It should be somewhat complete, because she will latch on to the facts that she's not paranoid, not hearing voices, not seeing things, etc. to demonstrate why she doesn't have psychosis.
Thanks again.
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If you google it the top result is good, not an actual page, you know how Google has health conditions it comes up as that goto the symptoms tab......it's sourced from the Mayo Clinic but is more clear than their site really. Alternatively there are books but most center on schizophrenia rather than psychosis per se.....example surviving schizophrenia by Torrey. Frankly I wouldn't go near anything schizophrenia because it can be scary to think you might have that.
I'm not sure this approach will work though, you need to latch onto something she thinks is a problem and say the meds will help with that. In my case I couldn't sleep so they gave me a sleep aid that's also an antipsychotic.....