Need help with my 11 year old daughter please

Hi all. I need to get your opinion. I am SZ and I have 5 kids. All with different forms of MI. My middle daughter is 11 and has been diagnosed since she was 4 with OCD and now also has major depression. She takes Zoloft and Ablify. However, the last 2 weeks or so she keeps asking me if I have said something to her when I haven’t and no one else is around. I think she is starting to hear voices. She also said she is seeing ghosts and maybe they are the ones talking to her. I am concerned because I did not start getting my psychosis until I was 22. Do you think she could be starting at this young age. She was already hospitalized once last Feb. She is not due to see her Pdoc for 2 more months. Do you think I should call or should I just paly it by ear right now? It isn’t constant (the voices).

Thanks for all your help.

Littlepieceofheaven

I'm sorry you are going through so much. I can only speak from personal experience but I was diagnosed at14. I did however start seeing things and hearing things MUCH younder than that. I can remember being only 7 and having so many irrational paranoid dillusions. I honestly believed that my life was a TV show like the Truman show so much that it made me literally afraid to use the restroom. Here I am a 7 year old girl thinking people are recording her in every restroom she ever uses. I refused to use my grandmothers restroom, school bathrooms, public restrooms in general and all restrooms besides the one by my bedroom, which I checked frequently for cameras throughtout my life. I have always also had extreme paranoia about under my bed, so much so that as a 17 year old I would not walk on my bedroom floor but instead had my room set up where I could just jump from the door onto the bed without touching the floor. I was terrified of murderers hiding under there. I was also afraid to even sit against my bedroom wall... Forcing me to do all homework and such laying down in my bed. This was just the paranoia process of my schizophrenia. As long as I can remember I have had this horribly. I do however have DID as well so for the voices and sights I can't accurately say what age that started with the schizophrenia because back then I did not know how to tell those voices apart and can not remember that much in detail now to recall when the "outside" voices started.
I do know though that I have has schizophrenia at least 90% of my life. Both my father and mother have psychosis so I guess I was destined to have it.
One thing though, with your daughter being so young please do monitor her with her medications. Back when I was only 14 they had me on 32 different prescription pills daily. These medications caused me to be much worse off then being a non medicated schizophrenic. Now I do understand the need for these medicines though. It really depends on where you are in life and at one point I did need medication. Just not as many as they thought I did and now 10 years later and I haven't taken meds in over a year and honestly feel better then I have in my entire life, and this feeling has lasted over a year. At one point I did need those meds though, just not 32 of them. I think councelling is great for children that need it, as far as the meds go though, there are too many od's and too many harmful drugs for such young bodies that parents do need to keep an eye on their childrens prescriptions.
I'm not trying to lecture you at all and I'm sorry if it sounds like that, I am just very against over medicating teenagers since it happened to me. You don't want your daughter turning into a robot whose only programming is blank. But these meds can do that so I always try to make sure the parents are safe.
Anyways, I am sorry you are going through so much and that your family is going through this as well. Try and remember back when you were her age if things seemed to be "strange" to you. It's easier to communicate with someone, especially a family member, when they know you can relate to their situation.
It is always a good idea however to at least have your daughter see a councelor. You could wait 2 months but I know when I start seeing things and hearing things more than normal, that things are NOT normal in my head, I am in a huge emotional battle that I hide from everyone, your daughter may be going through this so it may be a good idea to send her to therapy. From what I have gathered, these hallucinations are often triggered by bad emotions incidents etc... Your daughter may be on a completely different playing field than yourself right now so it probably wouldn't hurt to send her to talk to someone

i personally would phone, as it wont to any harm to get some advice from a professional. and also if she does need therapy the quicker her name is on the list the better she only young and if she does start to realise that she is hearing voices this might cause her distress but if you know help is on the way then you might be in a better position.
i truely hope she is ok and you get things sorted out soon

Hi There,
First, I want to say, you have great instincts and they will go along way in helping you parent. My daughter was diagnosed at age 11 and she is now 19 and doing well in college. So please do not panic. When she was diagnosed, I was told her symptoms started earlier than other family members because she had a “stacked” version of the disease; meaning generational. While this is not great news, my daughter is living proof that a quality life is certainly possible. Every teacher she has ever had has loved her, (they thought she had ADD and I did nothing to correct them. I know it is controversial but she can choose to tell whomever she wants as an adult. ) she, has always been honest and open with me and the rest of the family regarding, her disease. She has also always been medically compliant. Please do not ignore her symptoms. Call the Pediatrician now and when you go request a referral. She may have other issues but it is paramount she know she can count on you to help her through this time. Good luck mother, you have your hands full. I hope you have enlisted lots of help. If not, please do because you deserve all the help you can find. Take good care of yourself.