My person hears promises of love and being taken care of by these voices. Also having archangels that are performing psychic surgery and healing. She is convinced she has an infestation of parasites. She will get in the car and drive miles to meet these voices only for them never to show up.
Help, how can I get her help she needs. She is convinced she is talking to others on a spiritual plane.
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Welcome @Caring to this forum. You can read current postings, as well as use the search tool to find past postings on subject you are interested in. I understand that your loved one feels she is talking to others on a spiritual plane. That idea is not uncommon. My daughter has been talking to others that way since the disease began with her. It was far worse when she was unmedicated, but even Haldol injections for 4 years regularly haven’t stopped the voices totally, although some of the mean ones have gone away.
Have you read the book, I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help by Dr. Amador? Or watched some of the videos? I use the LEAP method of communication that he suggests to make changes slowly in my daughter’s actions, however, the only reason she is on medication is because the court system forced her onto them. Nothing I said would have kept her on medication, in the beginning, willingly. And medication was the only thing that rescued her from intense immersion into her other world (screaming all night long at them). I think the best thing you can do is to not disrespect her hallucinations and delusions by any kind of direct confrontation. You cannot talk her out of them.
I talked to my daughter about eating more food, and getting a job. I told her medicine would help her keep a job (she really wanted to work). And as long as she has been working, she has been much happier. She tells me what one of her kinder voices says regularly, and he even passes messages to me through her. Once she became willing to talk to me about her visits on the spiritual plane (and I became willing to listen) our whole relationship improved.
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They’re called “commanding voices” and are what my son had when he was psychotic. She has to get to a psychiatrist and get meds. If she has anosognosia then the book that @oldladyblue referenced should help.
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I think that @caregiver1 is giving good advice. However, I do know that sometimes it is trial and error if a medication will work, it took 5 different trials with medicine to find the permanent solution for my daughter. It is a war you are waging against this disease: it is usually won, IF it can be won, with many small battles over many years. Your concern to help your loved one must be balanced with the education of yourself in this life-changing disease’s effects, the mental preparedness for it to take lots of work and time on your own part to try to handle her for months or years or decades into the future, and the willingness to accept the “new her” if the psychosis settles down as she will be a changed person.
Please be aware that the future possible good outcome for her may very well depend on caregiving from someone who loves her, like you. “The system” by itself does not always work. Most of us on this site could not give up on our loved ones, and found advice on this website to be very necessary to our situations. Keep coming back and reading and posting.
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