This week has been a great week for my son he has calmed down so much, so the new med they added is doing some good…We had a conversation today and he told me for the first time in three years that when he stopped his meds his mind gets fragmented and that the meds were helping.
What is new this week as last week he keeps telling me Mom I love you with all my heart kind of like a child ,so I asked him why he keeps saying that and he said he was scared that he might loose me. He also told me that he was lonely and I asked him why he did not get out and go to the gym that he joined and never went to, He said he was scared that some one will try to kill him so the paranoid is still high, He has been doing so good but he will do nothing unless I go with him .I am worried about what will happen to him if something happens to me He said he does not need counseling or therapy…what am I to do?
Hi, My name is Surprised J. My swan song onset happened when I was 17. I got diagnosed with undifferentiated Sz. My very high paranoia got muted with Zoloft. After the med’s calmed me down enough to leave the house, then I was able to go to therapy.
This is just an odd example of what my Mom did when I was saying I didn’t need therapy. She took me to an SZ support group that she found through our Pdoc and she didn’t tell me it was for me, she told me it was for her. I might not need therapy, but she said she did.
I do remember her saying, “I’m nervous to go alone, you know, just how you are nervous to go to new places alone. So just for maybe 10 minutes, please come with me.”
That BLEW me away, my MOM was nervous to go somewhere? (She probably wasn’t but at the time I felt like I was helping her out) Then I ended up in a room at the near by community center with 6 other people who also had SZ. We stayed for 20 minutes or so, I worked up to staying the whole hour and then worked up to my Mom not going anymore.
I was put in Therapy, but we started off with a family therapist. So we were all there. So it wasn’t that I needed therapy, we all did. then slowly but surely, with meds, and therapy, and CBT and other things, my insight improved, and I’ve been getting better every year.
Thanks for the feed back, that’s something I can look at and yes he would go if it was for me,So glad you are improving…keep in touch…
Can I ask you what is the difference in the two types…
This link has the different sub-types of schizophrenia.
BarbieBF’s link says it all. Undifferentiated was explained in my diagnosis as having just enough paranoid and just enough disorganized that I don’t fit into either exactly so I get both. 
thanks very helpful it helps me as I learn.