does anyone else live like this or is it just me?

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When my son outgrows the Abilify dose (or it stops working or whatever the hell causes it.... full moon, planets lined up, whatever), he begins to wrap himself in plastic and try to vacuum seal himself all day and all night with the vacuum and duct tape and a mattress bag or any plastic sheeting he can find. Now stop laughing! Imagine straw in mouth, covered in plastic, screaming to let him keep doing it. This and covering himself in shampoo/conditioner/mud/flour/paste/caulking compound, etc. It is a sensory thing, not a masturbation thing. And, he becomes obsessed with doing science experiments day and night instead of sleeping. He recently outgrew Abilify 25 mg per day and we have had a week of hell. Linseed oil/sulfur experiment at 2 am in the kitchen, draining into our septic tank. Last night it was trying to melt plastic bags in boiling water to make pot holders out of trash bags with an obsessive/perseverative vengence. I think I found myself screaming "But I don't WANT plastic pot holders!!???" at some point, just before I gave extra Abilify after he then proclaimed that he was going to kill himself and started to make a fertilizer explosive in a coffee grinder. It is a pattern of stability for 12 months, weight gain, then the vacuum sealing insidiously starts up, the plastic sealants go missing, then all hell breaks loose when it becomes obvious.

I'm tired. It has been night after night of this. He already has some tardive dyskinesia, but can't live without the antipsychotics. Well, he can live, it would just be covered in plastic with a straw in his mouth, until the carbon dioxide levels build up and he dies......

One of my friends thinks we need a reality show. Too funny! You gotta laugh sometimes at the sheer insanity of it all.....