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Discussion of Alcoholism

Re: Alcohol-induced temporary schizophrenia?

Posted By: Vicki Johnson
Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2003, at 1:35 p.m.

In Response To: Alcohol-induced temporary schizophrenia? (Brian Smith)

Dear Dr. Dodes, my sister-in-law and I are trying to research what really happened to my brother. On July 11 he fell/jumped out a second story window and broke his neck. Leading up to this accident, he had been drinking, perhaps all night. My sister-in-law is not sure what time he actually went to bed, the accident happened at 5 a.m. Everyone seems to think this was caused by "night terrors" and my sister-in-law has said that there were times when he drank he would go to sleep and then wake up appearing to be hallucinating or having a nightmare. It ONLY happened if he had been drinking heavily and fall asleep. There have been other strange behaviors as well, for example he appeared convinced he was a "sniper" for an unknown agency and couldn't talk about it. Otherwise, he held down a job, etc. In fact, while sober he appeared completely normal. When confronted sober about the "sniper" story he said it was true but didn't want to talk about it. When he went through the window, he first punched a hole through the window and then went through the lower portion of the window [as if he dove], screen, venetian blinds and everything. We wanted an opinion about alcohol-induced schizophrenia versus night terrors. Thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate it. Vicki Johnson vickidjohnson@msn.com

Messages In This Thread

Alcohol-induced temporary schizophrenia?
Brian Smith -- Sunday, 11 May 2003, at 2:00 p.m.

Re: Alcohol-induced temporary schizophrenia?
Elzie Kinsey -- Thursday, 10 July 2003, at 10:46 a.m.

Re: Alcohol-induced temporary schizophrenia?
Brian Smith -- Friday, 25 July 2003, at 12:31 a.m.

Re: Alcohol-induced temporary schizophrenia?
Vicki Johnson -- Tuesday, 11 November 2003, at 1:35 p.m.

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Erin Michaluk -- Sunday, 25 January 2004, at 4:36 p.m.

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dorothy brunton -- Thursday, 25 November 2004, at 12:27 a.m.

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thomas -- Wednesday, 16 February 2005, at 6:37 a.m.

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Susan -- Monday, 14 June 2004, at 9:57 a.m.

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Jill -- Tuesday, 20 July 2004, at 2:38 a.m.

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Ren -- Thursday, 30 September 2004, at 11:08 p.m.

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barry -- Friday, 11 February 2005, at 4:41 a.m.

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John -- Saturday, 10 July 2004, at 5:18 p.m.

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Brian -- Thursday, 6 October 2005, at 7:34 p.m.

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Fred -- Sunday, 1 August 2004, at 9:18 a.m.

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just me -- Monday, 18 October 2004, at 11:40 p.m.

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Bill -- Thursday, 3 February 2005, at 9:08 p.m.

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lee -- Tuesday, 3 May 2005, at 3:57 a.m.

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Colin -- Friday, 24 June 2005, at 11:01 a.m.

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Liz -- Thursday, 7 July 2005, at 7:06 a.m.

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Matthew Bernardo -- Wednesday, 10 August 2005, at 9:10 p.m.

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Sophie -- Saturday, 20 August 2005, at 3:00 p.m.

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sophie -- Tuesday, 23 August 2005, at 1:15 a.m.

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Lorraine -- Wednesday, 24 August 2005, at 12:44 p.m.

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sophie -- Wednesday, 24 August 2005, at 9:27 p.m.

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Enigma -- Saturday, 3 September 2005, at 3:01 p.m.

Re: Alcohol-induced temporary schizophrenia?
brian -- Wednesday, 12 April 2006, at 7:52 a.m.

Temp. Alcohol-Induced Schizophrenia/Psychosis BLOG
Brian Smith -- Wednesday, 12 April 2006, at 8:30 p.m.

Re: Temp. Alcohol-Induced Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Keek -- Wednesday, 26 April 2006, at 2:35 a.m.