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Originally Posted by Doesitend?
My husband is the only child of a schizophrenic who has never been medicated or hospitalized. It is quite a sad situation. He says that he realized his mother was different when he was 6 years old, and that he has been able to overcome his abusive past with no therapy. My question is this: He thinks that everything I say and do is to hurt or demean him. This is not true. He has periods when he is elated with me, which are usually when I am doing things his way and lavishing him with attention. He needs constant reaffirmation, even for doing the dishes, and he can be quite cruel with his actions and words. He has recently begun destructive violence when angry. He always cannot be wrong, and cannot take criticism. Everything is always everyone else's fault. Could he have schizophrenic tendencies, sociopathic what? I urge him to get counseling, but he refuses, saying he is fine, that I am crazy. Yes, I am depressed, but it is mainly from being in this rollercoaster marriage, and I am in counseling. Thanks for any help!  |
i also am the child of a schizophrenic,and my mother was,too.both she and her brother married schizophrenics.i suffer from depression,anxiety,etc. i believe my hideous mental problems are genetic/environment based,but i am not schizophrenic.he may or may not be schizophrenic,but certainly his mother's illness affected him some way,somehow.my dad was diagnosed as schizophrenic,but during the time i knew him as a child,he was very loving and kind to me--i loved him more than anyone in the world.he died young,age 45,i was 7.i still miss him so much.there are diff kinds of schizophrenia,and varying degrees of it.schizophrenic doesn't neccessarily mean sociopathic.a good psychiatrist can explain this illness best.
