Hallucinations were a large portion of what Lori had experienced with her symptoms of schizophrenia. Auditory hallucinations made up majority of things experienced, she was always hearing voices in her head, which is where most of her problems stemmed from, they started out subtle and then progressed into the voices always being there. The voices varied in the type of things they would be telling Lori. At times, they would be persecutory voices, calling her horrible names, degrading her. Other times there would be more than one voice at a time and they would converse with each other saying things like Lori must go to hell and that she needs to be punished, they would also converse by saying she needed to die. The biggest part of the voices
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Doller suggested an antipsychotic, clozapine, that was for the sickest or the sick with very harmful side effects and the medication could kill her. Lori wanted to attempt the drug and her doctor agreed with going forward with her parent’s consent of administering the drug to Lori and they agreed. After starting the medication, Lori began to slowly but surely begin to see positive changes within herself as well as other people saw it too. She and other people saw her becoming less impulsive, and more thoughtful, people would mention that she looked more alive and happy and her parents noticed that she was becoming her true self again as well. She was beginning to feel a sense of calm and she was now able to sleep better than she ever has. The biggest thing that began to happen while taking the medication is that the voices started to slowly fade, and Lori now wanted to be alive and one of the biggest accomplishments she felt from the medication is that she was able to connect with other people again. Lastly, another treatment that worked out in Loris favor was psychosocial therapy. Throughout her experience, due to the voices and her lost connection with others, Lori never wanted to engage in talking about her symptoms and diagnosis with her doctors. It was able to be seen that following a successful medication that gave Lori the chance to begin to think clearly again and subside the voices, she was …show more content…
For a period of time, Lori felt that the high she was feeling from the cocaine was relieving her pain from her symptoms, but when she came down from the high her symptoms and voices would return. Eventually, she was dependent on self-medicating with cocaine. Using cocaine was making things worse by her dependency on the drug, her actions were worse than before her behavior was beginning to noticeably change and her parents began to realize what was going on with her, she needed to cut her ties with her friend Raymond to begin cutting herself off from the drug use, which was making herself worse. Another thing that was exacerbating her symptoms was refusing to take her medication, or spitting it out and throwing away her pills. The voices told Lori she did not need her medication, so she would submit herself to the voices and refuse to take her medications. By not taking her medication, Lori was hurting herself more, with no medication she would never get better and she was neglecting herself from something she needed by giving into the voices she was hearing telling her that she did not need the
Doller suggested an antipsychotic, clozapine, that was for the sickest or the sick with very harmful side effects and the medication could kill her. Lori wanted to attempt the drug and her doctor agreed with going forward with her parent’s consent of administering the drug to Lori and they agreed. After starting the medication, Lori began to slowly but surely begin to see positive changes within herself as well as other people saw it too. She and other people saw her becoming less impulsive, and more thoughtful, people would mention that she looked more alive and happy and her parents noticed that she was becoming her true self again as well. She was beginning to feel a sense of calm and she was now able to sleep better than she ever has. The biggest thing that began to happen while taking the medication is that the voices started to slowly fade, and Lori now wanted to be alive and one of the biggest accomplishments she felt from the medication is that she was able to connect with other people again. Lastly, another treatment that worked out in Loris favor was psychosocial therapy. Throughout her experience, due to the voices and her lost connection with others, Lori never wanted to engage in talking about her symptoms and diagnosis with her doctors. It was able to be seen that following a successful medication that gave Lori the chance to begin to think clearly again and subside the voices, she was …show more content…
For a period of time, Lori felt that the high she was feeling from the cocaine was relieving her pain from her symptoms, but when she came down from the high her symptoms and voices would return. Eventually, she was dependent on self-medicating with cocaine. Using cocaine was making things worse by her dependency on the drug, her actions were worse than before her behavior was beginning to noticeably change and her parents began to realize what was going on with her, she needed to cut her ties with her friend Raymond to begin cutting herself off from the drug use, which was making herself worse. Another thing that was exacerbating her symptoms was refusing to take her medication, or spitting it out and throwing away her pills. The voices told Lori she did not need her medication, so she would submit herself to the voices and refuse to take her medications. By not taking her medication, Lori was hurting herself more, with no medication she would never get better and she was neglecting herself from something she needed by giving into the voices she was hearing telling her that she did not need the