schizoaffective disorder

[trina13]

My close friend have schizoaffective disorder. It is very difficult for me to visit him at the hospital because lot of times he wont want to visit and or he's very angry. Every time he gets better and gets out of hospital he starts his bad habitS which is drinking and leaves the country and goes to England and he makes bad chioces.  It's very hard to please him and make him listen. PLEASE HELP ME TO HELP HIM.

Thank you, Trina

[ILADVOCATE]

He needs to join a recovery group for people who have a mental illness and an issue with alcoholism. He cannot recover fully until he stays off drinking but that would take a recovery group such as AA but one designed for people with mental illness. Also what medication is he on? The older antipsychotics from Thorazine to Haldol don't work so well and are twice as likely to create movement disorders that are temporary or permanent ones such as tardive dyskinesia which in myself is as bad as Parkinsons'. The new ones the atypicals from Risperal through Abilify are much better. Of course they still have a risk of tardive and diabetes. Fortunately there are medications in study that can't cause these conditions. I am on glycine, a glutamate antagonist in Phase II FDA study. These medications will be the antipsychotics they will use once they are released in the next 5 years as well as other study medications. Let me know how your friend is doing and what medication he is on. I could provide you with information and
I am an advocate as well.

[prozacprincess]

Here's a link to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) about schizoaffective disorder:
http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=54&ContentID=23043