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anxiety My cousing is going trought an stage that he feels that someone is following him and want to hurt him today was the weird thing he did, he drove for hours with out knowing were he was going he said he felt anxiety and he did not know were he was going.please let me know what I could do to help him out.
I do appreciate your concern for your cousin. From what you have mentioned, it seems that your cousin is having symptoms suggestive of a delusion of persecution. It is a condition in which a person starts feeling that people are trying to harm him. It is part of a psychotic condition and can be due to a primary psychotic condition like schizophrenia or may be secondary to depression.
I would suggest that you seek a psychiatric evaluation of your cousin and initiate treatment. He will need treatment with anti-psychotics like olanzapine. An anti-depressant would also be required if he has an underlying depression.
I do hope that you found the information helpful. Best wishes.
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Hi, I do appreciate your concern for your cousin. From what you have mentioned, it seems that your cousin is having symptoms suggestive of a delusion of persecution. It is a condition in which a person starts feeling that people are trying to harm him. It is part of a psychotic condition and can be due to a primary psychotic condition like schizophrenia or may be secondary to depression. I would suggest that you seek a psychiatric evaluation of your cousin and initiate treatment. He will need treatment with anti-psychotics like olanzapine. An anti-depressant would also be required if he has an underlying depression. I do hope that you found the information helpful. Best wishes.