Someone i know is sleeping in his clothes and often doesnt change the following day or have a wash. He is Autistic and has ADHD. He sleeps on the sofa with the light on, the tv on and the heating on. He regularly doesnt sleep until the early mid hours of the morning. He says he sleeps better on the sofa. I dont want to push my views on him, but i want the best for him.
If his mind is racing like that I know what that feels like, then no, he can not turn them off when it is that severe. He needs the right medication and the proper help to help turn this around. I don't know if he's hit psychosis yet but chances are he will if he has that kind of poor sleep and that kind of anxiety and racing thoughts. The mind can't take all that in the long run.
I remember when I got sick they did not know how serious it was, I was not aggressive or violent and as my husband would say I don't show lot of emotions if any on the outside when I'm like that, while I can tell you on the inside it was all emotion and racing thoughts..So when I showed up, finally, they would read me off like they would any individual with no knowledge of autism. I simply did not fit the criteria of how you are suppose to be.Had I met the right person at the right time I would not have slipped into a psychosis.
The people in their profession that you first start meeting they are not the best of the best within a specific field, they simply lack a specific knowledge and they need to get to the point where they realize they can't handle this and refer you to the profession that can but in order to do that in the first place they need to recognize this is beyond them. Sounds to me as if his psychiatrist is no expert or that the someone you know has been doing better when he met the psychiatrist. Nobody took me seriously before I came into a psychosis. Because of my autism I did not show the emotions of stress on the outside like others do, I can still get that, that other people around me do not get that I too am stressed out. It is always as if they are a group of their own and I am outside, if anything, they lean on me for support. I am in the team of one.
My guess is he needs all these things on to try to both disrupt the racing (the anxiety) and give comfort. Sounds and lights can be either over the top or soothing, it depends, it has to get just right. He has these things on so he can get some sleep (hopefully). I still fall asleep without intending to in front of the tele and other sounds around that are not too high or disruptive. One of the questions we got regarding our child when first suspecting autism was how the child would be at bed time, would it be difficult to fall asleep etc.
Him not changing his clothes the next day or washing could be out of confusion (psychosis) or because the clothes and not washing are safe to him, comfort, or because all the work it takes to do so when he knows he don't need to. To try to remove the clothes from someone (mentally ill) who see these clothes as safe and been in them for a long time can be really difficult and not something you should start with. The clothes are this shield to him (To me it was basically that I could not remember when I last took a shower, when I last ate. I did not know if nobody told me how long I had had the clothes on or when I last took a shower. I would try to take a bath which was not the smartest thing to do under the circumstances. When I went in the water was just right, when I came to the water was ice cold).
If you can, please try to help him get the proper help he needs before it gets worse.
If his mind is racing like that I know what that feels like, then no, he can not turn them off when it is that severe. He needs the right medication and the proper help to help turn this around. I don't know if he's hit psychosis yet but chances are he will if he has that kind of poor sleep and that kind of anxiety and racing thoughts. The mind can't take all that in the long run.
I remember when I got sick they did not know how serious it was, I was not aggressive or violent and as my husband would say I don't show lot of emotions if any on the outside when I'm like that, while I can tell you on the inside it was all emotion and racing thoughts..So when I showed up, finally, they would read me off like they would any individual with no knowledge of autism. I simply did not fit the criteria of how you are suppose to be.Had I met the right person at the right time I would not have slipped into a psychosis.
The people in their profession that you first start meeting they are not the best of the best within a specific field, they simply lack a specific knowledge and they need to get to the point where they realize they can't handle this and refer you to the profession that can but in order to do that in the first place they need to recognize this is beyond them. Sounds to me as if his psychiatrist is no expert or that the someone you know has been doing better when he met the psychiatrist. Nobody took me seriously before I came into a psychosis. Because of my autism I did not show the emotions of stress on the outside like others do, I can still get that, that other people around me do not get that I too am stressed out. It is always as if they are a group of their own and I am outside, if anything, they lean on me for support. I am in the team of one.
My guess is he needs all these things on to try to both disrupt the racing (the anxiety) and give comfort. Sounds and lights can be either over the top or soothing, it depends, it has to get just right. He has these things on so he can get some sleep (hopefully). I still fall asleep without intending to in front of the tele and other sounds around that are not too high or disruptive. One of the questions we got regarding our child when first suspecting autism was how the child would be at bed time, would it be difficult to fall asleep etc.
Him not changing his clothes the next day or washing could be out of confusion (psychosis) or because the clothes and not washing are safe to him, comfort, or because all the work it takes to do so when he knows he don't need to. To try to remove the clothes from someone (mentally ill) who see these clothes as safe and been in them for a long time can be really difficult and not something you should start with. The clothes are this shield to him (To me it was basically that I could not remember when I last took a shower, when I last ate. I did not know if nobody told me how long I had had the clothes on or when I last took a shower. I would try to take a bath which was not the smartest thing to do under the circumstances. When I went in the water was just right, when I came to the water was ice cold).
If you can, please try to help him get the proper help he needs before it gets worse.
