Some of you may remember my post 8 months ago about my adult son going crazy. If not, it's here.
https://greatawakening.win/p/16b690DGZ5/covid-can-cause-individual-psych/
Anyway, I had thought I (and of course, he) was out of the woods, but the early symptoms of psychosis seem to be returning ... lack of sleep, forgetting common words, texts and writing that nobody can understand, and some increasingly manic behavior that is still very minor compared to what happened last year.
Obviously I'm jumping on it, trying to nip it in the bud, using the same treatment we used before ... frequent nebulized hydrogen peroxide and ivermectin, although I'm still waiting for the overseas mail order ivm to arrive. (Using paste in the meantime.) I'm adding in some vitamin D and foods with magnesium, given that this is around the same time of year as his peak symptoms last year.
I don't want to lose him, he's a good kid with a good heart. Except that last year he was more like an uncontrollable werewolf without the fur and fangs, and thankfully without hurting anyone though he came close. I am loathe to use antipsychotics, they totally zombified him for a time, dimming his spirit and body with a soulless drooling zombie effect. It's scary that a tiny pill can do that to a person. Hopefully it won't come to that.
Please join me in praying to God for a full recovery.
Thank you all.
Yes. Thanks for asking. I was going to wait another week or two before posting, but so far the news is very good.
After a flood of information and a few days of continued increase in troubling behavior, I changed a few things (full-spectrum lights, vitamin D, more supplements, more consistent ivermectin) and I did a short-term cave by giving him an anti-psychotic called vraylar / cariprazine for a few days. He seems to be back to normal now, and is only taking ivermectin.
I think (but y'know, I don't have any control groups) the drug was useful to "reset" his inflamed brain, and then the ivermectin kicked in to remove the cause. The most important thing is that he's doing much better. I like to understand things, but sometimes God's ways defy understanding and while I'll keep trying, I may have to leave it at that. But ivermectin seems to have played a bigger role than the nebulizing that I had been a big fan of but was ineffective on its own.
For the future, I now have him on track with a government program (Dept of Rehabilitation) to find him a job, since he's extremely poor at interviewing and applying on his own. Hopefully job experience (he's very diligent once he gets going) will help with that part, but right now he still needs help. But so far he has avoided spiraling into an institution which is a very good thing by any measure.
Thanks for your concern.