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Hi everyone, just joined. I'm 36, male. Hoping to sort out meds. I just increased my dose of Oxcarbazepine to 600mg, twice a day for auditory and visual hallucinations and Quetiapine for sleep, just 50mg. Anyone taking these meds sort a depression/anxiety med that worked with the two?

Anyone found ways to keep employment with memory problems.

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GodspropLizzy

Hallo, SolidSeveral,

I am turning 36 in 1 month and eleven days, so you must be sure to tell me what that day feels like.

Just the fact that you are thinking about employment and keeping it encourages that you are on a level of functioning. Sorry, forgive me, temporal lobes and their functioning was something we studied in Psychology, but i am really weak on area points of seizures linked to schizophrenia. I also only know mostly about auditory and visual hallucinations from a weak theoretical foundation and from personal experiences.

But: In South Africa, there are a lot of ways to moderate job limitations, as i hope and trust is the same in your country. And you can quote Industrial Psychology 201- memory problems are most of the time challenges and not barriers, and i'm so glad you know that! When one part of the brain is suffering other neural pathways can sometimes serve to preserve it and help its functioning. Research some more on temporal lobes and the central executive functioning- it is so profound, and you just got it! And now you know memory and integration means lots of things can aid with that integration.

Sorry, before i am run away with myself, in SA, rainbow nation, democracy and pluralism blah blah, everybody has rights, among these rights to knowledge and empowerment: Depending on your occupation, you could decide to use a psychometric adviser on standardized psychometric evaluation, occupational therapy, training workshops and projects for people like us-many NGOs do the service for free, and you can set a visit with an industrial psychologist (unfortunately few small and medium organizations have a staff available on their own), if they have an HR in your workplace? You have already started networking, why not take some advice also from your instructors or trainers, and while we are at it- there are some wonderful technology devices that monitor heart rate and blood pressure and give sensory warning signals, not to mention, what is that cloud office thingy that organizes one's office tasks and notes for them (i fear to believe it processes information, that would scare me, but technology rattles me).( And if, as i fear, there is one department i left out- the best person to talk to that would be a cognitive science intern, as i fear that is where i forgot the name from)

But first, i would, and you will probably know better, talk to your therapist. See her concerns but also her positives. And please, get help from someone in this site, who at least understands your medication and disease a bit better

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Lain599

I hope somehow, to go to college and find employment. Very scary.

My son, also, has delusions/hallucinations but I think it is okay. He is a great person who is high functioning.

You certainly sound like you are!

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