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Seeking Urgent Help for Son With Catatonic SchizophreniaPosted By Cheri (Az) on 03/27/2017
They have diagnosed him with catatonic Schizophrenia and made me admit him to a psychiatric hospital yesterday. They have not helped him. I need help he has also went through severe abuse when he was a child and has always had issues with his nervous system. Please help me to figure out what is going on and help my son. They said he is refusing medication and they are sending him home because he won't take drugs that are making him feel more paralyzed.
I think it is a niacin deficiency. He also told me he feels a lot of pressure in his head. He is 22 and we just found out about the hydrocephaly that he has had since birth they say that has nothing to do with it and diagnosed him with catatonic Schizophrenia and stress disorder. Please pray they will let me bring him home today and get him the help he needs so desperately. I hope they don't kill him before I can get him help.
Replied by Timh (Ky) on 03/28/2017
Try and find a natural doctor or chiropractor in your area to help achieve some return to health.
Here is a list of nutrients that are specifically beneficial for brain function.
Replied by Nature15 (Ontario, Canada) on 05/02/2017
Schizophrenic type symptoms can be brought on by many different things. Nutritional deficiencies, parasites ( Research Toxoplasma Gondii especially. Probably unlikely he has contracted it but it's been linked to schizophrenia and worth looking into).
You mentioned he complains of a lot of head pressure/pain. Has he ever had an MRI to rule out anything more serious? I know you mentioned they ran some tests and didn't find anything, what tests did they run?
If all the tests look normal but he constantly battles these nervous system problems, going into a catatonic state after sleep, and feeling like he's having seizures he could be enduring some type of severe sleep paralysis type events, or his body may simply be in shock because his adrenals have crashed for having been in fight or flight for too long and it can manifest as a nervous breakdown.
You said he suffered severe abuse as a child, some of this could be unresolved emotional issues manifesting physically as well.
When your son is out and back home and settled the best thing you can do is treat him as holistically as possible.
This is kind of wild reading your story, because I can feel your son's pain having myself been in a very similar position when I was 22 years old.
I was put in a mental institution, had a full blown nervous breakdown, was very ill physically, I couldn't eat anything, had drastic weight loss, suffered bizarre panic attacks, problems swallowing, problems with head pressure, insomnia etc.. I went on Attivan too..
My Mom was a Godsend when I got out, We started eating very healthy, juicing, I started seeing an osteopath and got my Vagus nerve looked out and treated( please research this as well), I cut out all food allergies, used appropriate herbs, vitamins, minerals, I started working again and got my life back and even went to travel in Hawaii on my own after that! ( Surreal considering I battled severe anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, learning disabilities all my life etc..).
If I could overcome a lot of that so can your son! Never lose hope!
If you want to chat more about this, we can bounce ideas off each other if you'd like. I'll free up time to help in any way I can.
Danny
Replied by Susan (AZ) on 06/18/2022
