I’ve had psychosis for a few months now. The normal hearing voices and being pretty paranoid. My mom has been so supportive of me lately, but one thing she always says bothers me. She always explains to me that one day I’m going to be magically healed. I argue with her when she says this and try to explain to her that it may never get better and many live their lives with this. She is a strong believer in God. I don’t know what else to tell her. She just thinks one day I’m going to wake up and nothing ever happened.
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Believing in gods is a tricky thing when you’ve got sz and are prone to delusions. I mean, even for healthy people there’s a fine line between religious and delusional. Your mother seems to have found herself on the wrong side.
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I try to believe this too and it has helped my outlook. i have improved and i do still hope to be complete content with my mind at some point 
(hoping, praying, wishing) I live in Hope.
Maybe get her to speak to your doctor? He could tell her about your prognosis.
Edit: And welcome to the forum !
I’m sorry. That would bother me too if my mom thought I was going to be miraculously better and no longer being monitored. They’ve been after me since 2008. Why would they stop now
Welcome to the forum. What a cute user name.
Maybe your mother saw the movie The Exorcist in which the girl gets very violent and then snaps out of it like it never happened. That movie came out years and years ago, like 1973.
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yea i would find that hard too if they say you gonna miraculously get better… you have to make her realize you will have to take your meds if you wanna do well.
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My mother tried to exorcise me twice by wanting to send me to Egypt to a priest known there to do miracles. Its traumatizing. She says faith in God heals everything and that I don’t need meds. My brother also speaks about miracles in Jerusalem.
My mother watches an egyptian program on TV where this priest makes deaf ppl hear, handicapped ppl walk, healing schizophrenics/mental illness etc by spitting on them and throwing water on them. I believe its all fake and that its ridiculous. Sending me to Egypt unmedicated and alone is like suicide for me.
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My mom has schizophrenia. On the haldol she was struggling with her faith in God, I think that’s why she went off of it possibly. She’s been unmedicated now for about three months. She decided to become vegetarian, she’s listening to music and watching less tv. My dad has been working to reach her because he doesn’t want to lose her again to the madness. She was sick for 9 years straight, and it took hospitalization and a step down unit for her to come back to herself.
Having family members visiting has seemed to definitely help keep her stable and grounded. The music seems to help too. She wouldn’t talk to my dad at first but now she’s talking to him again and not mad at him or paranoid as much. She seems ok.
To me that’s a miracle. It would be nice if she could keep her faith in God and live a healthy unmedicated life maybe science will have a breakthrough in treatment one day and find a cure or something that will help people without them feeling so disconnected…there is no magic pill for it, but keeping the environment stable and safe is probably the most important factor from experience, low stress and a stable environment.
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