My son just left Home after 5 months of Hospital and Rehabiliation

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I think I did a grave mistake of Accepting my Son to come back and live with me.

On February 2016, he went on long journey from Airline terminal to Airline terminal. he slept in Chicago terminal for 10 days. he used up all his saving and tricked me on spending more money to get back to my home but he kept diverted the flight to another cities until he finally ended up in Northern California where my brother is.

he was homeless for 10 days then started calling me to ask me to put him in a Marriott hotel to take a shower. I refused to spend $ on Marriot and told him to go for Motel 6 but he kept on calling me like 20 times insisted on staying in Marriot.
Finally called the cops in California where he was and they took him to emergency clinic( gave me a Zyprexa shot) then to a hospital for 7 days and later ended up staying with friends family to 12 days but things did not go well with Friends family. Later, my brother later took him to Stanford Hospital and he was there for over 2 months and half. he was verbally abusive on the phone with me then he get better in the last 5 weeks before he left Stanford Hospital.
they gave him Paliperidone and Lithium

later he moved to the Rehabilitation in Santa Cruz and he was appointed a Temporary Conservator. He was calling me constantly trying to convince me to get him out from the Rehabilitation & promised that he would be complaint on medicine and respectful to me in My home.

I fall into the trap and flew to California and get him. He was well behaved the 2 weeks then he started not taking his meds. he refused to take his meds and things get worse until we had a fight and I called the cops then he escaped 10 days ago and he is now in Arizona.

when he called me last, he told me that he does not want to live with me and does not like the State I live in and he is afraid that I would put him in Hospital and also does not want to take medicine because he thinks they are causing headache.

He had told a friend from Rehab that he want to live in California with him but he has no Money anymore…

He took the Sim card from his cell phone because he thinks cops are tapping his cell phone.

I have not heard from him for 2 days and worried about him. I have no way to Call him. the last time he called me is from someone else phone.

I am very worried about him since he is homeless and with little Money.

Not sure what should I do at this point

I feel a deep sadness in my heart Daily. I keep praying about it.

Any suggestions would help.

Thanks for Reading my story

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@JARCA2016 I’d like to encourage you to join our forum for Family and Caregivers that can be found at:

While this forum is for people with schizophrenia and other closely related psychotic disorders, the Family forum is specifically for people like yourself, who have a loved one they are concerned about.

Also, please let your loved one know about this forum as they may find it helpful.

Best of luck,

Moonbeam
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I told him about the site but he keeps Saying that he does not have mental illness.

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I’m chosing his theme songs right now…

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Few times, he said that he will take the medicine but so far it has been very hard administering the medicine to him.

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Let em be and let em be the street pirate or the gutter punk for awhile. Let him go just let him go off and screw up and learn in the end.

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Does he ever drink
??

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Does he smoke the devils lettuce? what is he on???

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Get him INJECTED MONTHLY

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If you’re his mom, and you want him off the streets, he has to take the big injections every month of his medicine and follow your states rules.

Plan one reward, I dunno where you live but there should be a good outdoor activity that engages his pleasure.

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I don’t hunt, I fish…never hunted yet but may goose hunt this season I have my license. I’m a disabled vet who has discharged weapons since he was 7 years old. I go outdoors and fish and shoot and have fun out in the country. And play musical instruments in the city.

Maybe…get him a way to express himself like a musical instrument as a gift after being injected monthly…don’t do it soon, give em a good three months-then gift him an instrument combo with which he can express himself with.

Honestly without guitars for vets programs I’d be a gutter punk in no time. Yet I’d never be a street pirate, they’re rough and faithless punks. The streets are rough and hard on you.

I was a homeless vet for awhile…

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Well, hopefully your son will eventually take a look at this forum.

In the meantime, I’d like to encourage you to post on the Family Forum.

I hope you’re able to locate your son quickly. Good luck!

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Get him to take INJECTIONS MONTHLY!!!

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Most effective way of taking the medicine and coping with the illness is to have it constantly in your bloodstream, injections monthly take out the forgetting to take the pills, or refusing to take the pills, or saying (I don’t need those pills) it’s all taken out.

All taken out and put in a syringe and injected once a month…a series of shots that help him cope with his illness.

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Well if he don’t wanna tAke meds then why should he have to, it’s down to him at the end of the day

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So you essentially want him to live a tormented life?

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What’s going on is not that uncommon. They don’t have that RAISE initiative yet? Ultimately he’s gonna cycle between paychosis and stabilized on meds until he learns he needs em. Don’t be surprised if jail eventually enters the picture. The less time he spends psychotic the better chances of him living a productive life (ask the professionals)

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I am going to work on getting shot as soon as he comes back.

they tried to do this at Standford Hospital but he refused the shot.

I will get a involuntarily court order to get him Monthly shot,

What about if he refused the Shot?

this is causing me so much stress.

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He drinks beer sometimes but moderately.

He used to drink in College and he got couple of DUI