My mother’s schizophrenia seems to be controlled by meds but since a while, often when she gets up in the morning, she complains of hearing voices that repeat in her head. It doesn’t look like schizophrenic auditory hallucinations. It’s just one word, sometimes with no sense, repeating in her head and it takes sometimes about 1-2 hours to go away, but it GOES away. She is taking lorazepam 1 mg at night along with antipsychotics. Is that the Lorazepam? The schizophrenia symptom ? Any idea?
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Get with the psychiatrist and find out what he/she thinks. Maybe an increase in meds or a different med is necessary. Also, change her routine in the morning to where she awakes to soft music and encourage her to move with it. It may help rewire her brain to stop the reoccurring word in her mind.
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It was worse till 2 months ago when the psychiatrist changed her meds. It lowered the occuring of this situation but didn’t stop it. The music is a good idea. I’ll give it a try. Thank you
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It’s worth a try. Good Luck.
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In my daughter’s case, it took a while for the meds to work completely. At first, she learned to recognise the voices and ignore them. As she gets her life back, going back to uni, etc., the voices disappeared.
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My stepson repeats the same word hundreds of times in different tones ect. We have tried redirecting his thought process by getting him active doing something, but mostly he goes right back to it. This happens to all hours of the night. In the morning it is not as bad. He has not done this in front of the psychiatrist, because he is outpatient and sessions are short. Meds are
Olanzopine, Sertaline, hydroxide, and trazadone. Are there different meds that seem to help this? Anyone else have a love one who does this?
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Unlikely. Lorazepam is the antianxiety drug Ativan which is benzodiazepine similar to Xanax. It can be addictive with long term use and cause hallucinations and rebound effects when discontinued, but if she’s already being prescribed antipsychotics it seems likely there’s a primary concern of psychosis. The Ativan is likely intended to calm agitations resulting from her symptoms and help her sleep.
Any possibility she’s on the autistic spectrum? What you’re describing is reported by autists as a form of internal echolalia serving as a conscious or unconscious stim. Some liken it to counting sheep before going to sleep.
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I have been thinking about autism for a while, but with the increase of antipsychotic meds it has improved, so it is psychosis. She hasn’t stopped yet but it’s less frequent now. She is obsessed with time and whenever she’s nervous she repeats, for example, it’s eight twenty, it’s ten to two, etc! Sometimes she creates words out of nowhere, somthing like “akhonna”, “azonza”! I know it sounds autistic, but the psychiatre increases the dose everytime and it seems calming her down a little bit.