Having a really hard time these last few days - not with my sz but with my husband. He has temporal lobe epilepsy and gets grand mal seizures a lot, and if he gets none for a week or more then he develops psychotic sz-like symptoms.
its what they call ‘postictal psychosis’ and its harder for me to deal with than his seizures. Once his seizures start the psychosis fades. He has developed psychosis over the last few days then yesterday he got a seizure, but the psychosis hasnt faded yet.
He has all these paranoid ideas like there are satanists in his family, and he told me the barbecue pot next door is used for cremations because the guy who goes there is Hindu, and the explosion we heard last night is mole traps. He even phoned the police to tell them about is it permissable to have a crematorium in a security complex, or something like that. and keeps on phoning his mother too. Crazy ideas, but other than that he is lucid, hears no voices.
The problem is i get sucked in his paranoia and I start believing people are watching us like he said and that his family are indeed bad people out to harm us with their jealousy. on top of my own paranoia. It scares me so much that I have gotten anxiety and depression. Just wish his paranoia would go away. He is naturally a suspicious person but this isn’t normal.
The haloperidol prescribed to him a few years ago, I gave to him but he said it didn’t help. Im thinking if i should give him a amisulpride of mine, he used to take them too. I wish he would go to a neurologist, his epilepsy is really bad, he gets about 10 seizures a month.
Its been tough indeed. Im at the library wanted to get away for a little while.