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Suggest Treatment For Abnormal Behaviour Like Speaking To Self, Laughing And Crying
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My mother is a 53-year-old, since 10 years she is behaving abnormally like speaking to herself continuously, laughing, shouting, and crying and she lives in her own world, but she can do her normal work comfortably. She can cook well and do all the routine work daily. The major issue is she cannot understanding what is happening around. She lives in her own world.Plese help and suggest me which treatment I should go to cure this disases.Actyu=ually our whole famliy is under deprssion due to my mother illness.We tried some medicie from psychiast but it was affecting reversely and lots of weakness was coming due to medical doses.
My mother is a 53-year-old, since 10 years she is behaving abnormally like speaking to herself continuously, laughing, shouting, and crying and she lives in her own world, but she can do her normal work comfortably. She can cook well and do all the routine work daily. The major issue is she cannot understanding what is happening around. She lives in her own world.Plese help and suggest me which treatment I should go to cure this disases.Actyu=ually our whole famliy is under deprssion due to my mother illness.We tried some medicie from psychiast but it was affecting reversely and lots of weakness was coming due to medical doses.
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Hello,
Your mother is suffering from psyhotic disorder. It is a well treatable illness when given proper meds for sufficient time. She should be given newer generation antipsychotics- resperidone or olanzapine, or amisulpride etc. along with sedatives for initial period. These meds have less problematic side effects.
She must have been given old antipsyhotics which produce many side effects, espically sedation and EPS ( movement problems).
Without knowing what she is currently on, it is difficult to suggest how to shift on new drugs.
Please ask the doctor to give her new drugs and later when she improves, one may shift to even lighter molecules.
Wish you good health.
Dr. Manisha Gopal
MD Neuropsychiatry
Your mother is suffering from psyhotic disorder. It is a well treatable illness when given proper meds for sufficient time. She should be given newer generation antipsychotics- resperidone or olanzapine, or amisulpride etc. along with sedatives for initial period. These meds have less problematic side effects.
She must have been given old antipsyhotics which produce many side effects, espically sedation and EPS ( movement problems).
Without knowing what she is currently on, it is difficult to suggest how to shift on new drugs.
Please ask the doctor to give her new drugs and later when she improves, one may shift to even lighter molecules.
Wish you good health.
Dr. Manisha Gopal
MD Neuropsychiatry
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