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I just ~successfully talked my schizophrenic estranged best friend out of killing himself, or at least stopped him midway through the process. I suppose my involvement is a mixed bag, because I was the one who initially diagnosed him as a schizo and sent him to a shrink, which is why he he had antipsychotics at hand alongside benzos and SSRIs. Eh, you can't win them all.
It would be exceedingly rude of me to bill him for the services, so I'm going to go home and take a well deserved nap before I have to go back to work.
At least I know I'll be a good (licensed) psychiatrist, they call on me everytime someone with some kind of psychiatric comorbidity acts up and I get them calm and compliant in minutes 🙏
One of my good friends from college has a brother that is schizo in the US. They are at their wits end dealing with him. They are Indian and have been considering flying him to India and having him committed to an institution there. For various reasons it is mostly impossible to permanently involuntarily commit a person to a mental institute in the united states.
It does seem like one of the worst possible mental disorders to have. One of my Dad's best friends (lets call him Mark) had a son that was schizo. Mark was stabbed on two different occasions by his son, before his son eventually committed suicide. I have a cousin (Adam) who is potentially schizo, and has become very religious. I yelled at my Dad, cuz my Dad was talking with Adam and dropped that I'm an Atheist. Like do you want me to get stabbed Dad?
Anyways, good job, and best of luck in that line of work.
Thank you!
Schizophrenia is an exceptionally shitty illness, especially since it has no outright cure and you can only try to contain disease progression. It takes about 25 years off your life on average from the combination of meds and poor life decisions.
The meds are often terrible to be on too, they just beat having uncontrolled schizophrenia.
Atheists truly are the most persecuted minority, about tied with Gamers 🙏. I'm glad you didn't get stabbed, and while my friend isn't normally violent, who knows what the fuck can happen during an episode. Assuming I have the luxury of choosing a specialization in psych, I'm going the ADHD route, the biggest headache the doctors have is teen pregnancy and poor compliance with meds haha.
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