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May 06, 2008 at 04:42 PM
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How do you get a person to get help with delusional disorder when they think the doctors are out to get them.
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May 07, 2008 at 05:01 AM
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This is right up there with thinking your medication is toxic/poison.
It can be near impossible to convince someone through logic that their delusion is not reality. You might find that some days are better than others. You may be able to convince this person on a "good" day to see a physician. Is it just physicians they are thinking this about? Is it all medical professionals? __________________ Chris The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. Seneca (7 B.C. - 65 A.A.) |
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May 07, 2008 at 08:49 AM
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> It can be near impossible to convince someone through logic that their delusion is not reality.
Don't try to use "logic." Not being "logical" is not the problem. The problem is trust. If someone has learned not to trust, then trust is what has to be established. It is not done by trying to make somebody think something. __________________ Now if thou would'st When all have given him o'er From death to life Thou might'st him yet recover -- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631 |
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May 07, 2008 at 12:38 PM
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I used to think that my pdoc was out to kill me and my pills were poison. That wasn't fun. But what is sad is I was right in the first place. My Invega gave me a brain tumor and that was the cause of my prolactin levels being 5 times the normal rate! Now if that isn't poison, I don't know what is. Maybe it isn't the deadly kind of poison but rather something that messes with my body. My pdoc didn't mean it though. He isn't out to kill me anymore.
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