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2. While working with a schizophrenic patient as an ally outside the delusion

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 04:01 PM

Jul 8

could modify a lot of behavioral problems, it was in no way a cure. The delusions were still there. I just had to figure out a way to work with them or around them to enlist the person's help with effective treatment.

If hormonal treatments worked, they would be used exclusively since psychiatric drugs all have side effects, some of them horrific. Interpersonal care can modify some behavior, but if you want to quiet the voices and shut down hallucination, you need to bring out the big guns and hope the patient agrees to try them out and hope there's more improvement than added misery. That's the best we've got now.

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