I'm 19 years old female. I have used olimelt 5 gm for one month for hearing voices and seeing things which no one could see or hear. What should I do?

Question

You have a serious mental disorder and need to continue both medication and therapy for a long time. But because you are young there is a possibility that if you cooperate well and get the right kind of therapy, you could recover well. Because it is a psychotic condition you need to be made to relate to reality often by confronting the distortion of your environment. You may be given to delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking and speech. You may be emotionally unresponsive, suffering from social withdrawal, extreme apathy, and lack of initiative and drive. If you allow yourself to go internal you can strongly relate to your distortions and in fact, believe in them to be true. Your cooperation with rehabilitation and medical intervention are often not as desirable as it should be. In which case, someone has to monitor you constantly and enforce some compliance. You must be kept functional to get to be aware of your surroundings and build on a steady and trusting relationship with at least one member of the community. You will be difficult to handle, and you yourself will not find it easy to comply with therapeutic expectations. With someone strong and firm you could be made to follow a tight schedule and do many activities and exercises to prevent yourself from succumbing to this illness.

Saul Pereira · Accepted Answer

You have a serious mental disorder and need to continue both medication and therapy for a long time. But because you are young there is a possibility that if you cooperate well and get the right kind of therapy, you could recover well. Because it is a psychotic condition you need to be made to relate to reality often by confronting the distortion of your environment. You may be given to delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking and speech. You may be emotionally unresponsive, suffering from social withdrawal, extreme apathy, and lack of initiative and drive. If you allow yourself to go internal you can strongly relate to your distortions and in fact, believe in them to be true. Your cooperation with rehabilitation and medical intervention are often not as desirable as it should be. In which case, someone has to monitor you constantly and enforce some compliance. You must be kept functional to get to be aware of your surroundings and build on a steady and trusting relationship with at least one member of the community. You will be difficult to handle, and you yourself will not find it easy to comply with therapeutic expectations. With someone strong and firm you could be made to follow a tight schedule and do many activities and exercises to prevent yourself from succumbing to this illness.