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kolte
February 13th, 2006, 01:40 AM
I don't know how many of our members have experienced life growing up with schizo parents.
But I know that Moon69 and I have.
I'm making this so that people with Schizo parents can relate to each other and share stories and experiences.
Vent out some of the stress, reolize that your not alone.

My dads name is Pat. He was diagnosed with Shizo. at age 40 year 2000.
It was a conbination of drug abuse when he was younger and a dorment genetic trait.
He was allways very abusive and mentally controlling.
but mostly a fun and uniqe person to share time with.
he had a mental break down and 2000 and he fliped out, attacked my mother and uncle.
They tried mariage counciling and he was commited and stayed at a mental hospitle for 8 months.
My mother tried to save the marriage, but was court ordered to leave the town and a restraining order was issued.
We moved to a city inbetween Austin tx, and San Antonio near canyon lake.
My dad was let out of the State hospitle on good behiviour and "great progress"
He immediatly refused anymore medication and withen days, was convinced that my mother had kidnapped us and ran off with another man.
He stalked us for several months.
He set fire to our house, harrased friends and relitives, showed up at my mothers work and treatend employees.
We eventually were court ordered to move again.
we relocated to Nacadochous (spelling) and I ended up changing cultures from a southwest texas feel, to a East texas feel.
Which though some of you may not understand, the change is rather dramatic for a kid.
I was 11.
after about 8 months living in Na. he found us, I don't know how.
He broke into our house, and stole things, broke things, left odd things there.
No telling what his mind set was.
We left again and again, him all the time finding us. for about 4 years we lived in fear of him finding and hurting us.
In 2004, I left to kerrville tx to live with him.
But not because I really even wanted to.
I got him commited again, after talking to a school counciler. He didnt stay long, but long enough to be put in a differnt mind set.
He lives in Colorado now, with a good job, stable at the moment.
I will visit him soon.
he is on medication.
for now all is well.
for now.

kolte
February 14th, 2006, 11:02 PM
some days my dad is normal, some days he doesnt know me, he doesnt know anybody, and he is really scary. I don't even really know him anymore, its so strange but its old news know you know, its like hes been completly erased from our family, and hes just a memory, but I keep in touch with him threw email and phone conversation.

TheWizard
February 19th, 2006, 07:39 AM
Wow that must be hard to live with. I can't really relate cause my parents aren't schizo but sometimes I give my mom shit cause of it.

I'm cool like spongebob
July 29th, 2007, 01:40 PM
Glad to hear he is well just now. It must be hard having him as your father, but he is still a father. Good luck for the future

Maverick
July 29th, 2007, 07:41 PM
My mom is schizo. She was diagnosed nearly 2 years ago. It's a very hard thing to deal with. It's very stressful some days while other days it's completely fine. I've been in situations that I never would have imagined. Nearly getting stabbed on multiple occasions, physical fights with my mom, constantly preventing her from killing herself. Having to call the police so many times I've lost count. Having social services getting involved and getting pulled during school to talk to them because from the constant police reports they were worried my mom was a threat to my safety. Plus, trying to balance that with school work. The list goes on.

It's not an easy thing to deal with. Though I can say nearly 2 years since diagnosis things have gotten better and my tolerance for it has increased. I can pretty much handle anything that can go wrong relating to that and I've gotten used to the fact some days will be good and some will be bad.

If anyone is going through something similar. A mentally ill parent, friend, relative, anyone close to you, feel free to contact me by PM, email, or instant messenger - all in my profile. I know what its like to deal with something like that and feel like there's no one to relate.