Mountain Connections Interview with Dr. Xavier Amador on Park City TV

Dr. Amador appeared on Park City TV prior to the CONNECT Summit County LEAP Training in-person event at Blair Education Center on April 9, 2022.

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I understand where you're coming from doctor, but I cannot fathom so many ways in which is Realistic.
my son is having delusions and has been for years, I just learned about it and only because he ended up in jail (drunk driving)
and then addiction problem became known to me.
I got him into rehab programs and then the reality of the schizophrenia symptoms became more and more obvious, but only to me because I was the only one spending a lot of time with him and seeing it.
He is constantly talking to What he calls ghost and spirit and they are sometimes tormenting him, as they are "entering" him.
So I've been apparently going about it the wrong way trying to get him to get home for the delusions he's having ...Get on meds to stop them and get his life back. He's not able to work he's not able to accomplish things he's having problems with everyone in his life. He is not able to do things and then when the men at the sober living home get mad at him for not doing his things, He gets defensive or spirals or does really weird shit like cut open his box springs.
I did finally get him to go to a therapist and it is not a process to get to see a proper psychiatrist who can even diagnose or give meds, the one he's going to have to see him five times before she can diagnose and refer him to the psychiatrist…
On Friday he Told me some details about the spirits and what they were doing and I listened and we concluded that I acknowledge there's a small possibility that he's actually seeing Spirit and able to communicate with them and they are entering him and people. And he admitted that there's a small possibility that I am correct and he has a schizo affective disorder or schizophrenia... delusions
Then the next day he asked me, on the hottest day of the year so far, to come get him and take him to old building so he can look for other spirits who he might be able to ask for help pulling out the spirits that are in him
So, with this example, how do you follow the LEAP method and respond to that? Do you go and get them and drive around all buildings looking for ghosts and waiting to see what they do? What if what they do starts becoming dangerous and scary? I live with pain, after a stroke and I said no because I can't be out in this heat and I've been spending literally all of my money on him and his needs so I also can't waste the gas.
and that made him completely flip out and spiral and starts bringing up all kinds of things about how I'm psychotic and a horrible person and I am so devastated right now because Friday he was talking about possibly going into the hospital so he can be admitted to the psych ward… And now he is upset with me for not helping and blaming me for everthing
Because I wouldn't help him when I acknowledge that there was a small possibility and he needed this help.
How do you deal with more difficult examples than the ones you give ... because that's real life For a lot of people ...
Sara loves dylan's having hallucinations don't just talk about the CIA or the aliens in the attic, they sometimes do things about them
Sometimes my son can put on a suit and watch himself and talk to people as if he's perfectly normal and fine...Sometimes he can have rational conversations and I think that sometimes it's important for him to realize that there's a possibility that his brilliant brain is doing something wrong that is making him perceive things that are not real and ruining his life