Thread by @PsychicHealerC

Many of you don't know I am a caregiver to our son. He has had a lot of struggles in his life. We didn't know why. A few years ago when he was 29 he was in and out of the hospital for about 6 months. He was having a horrible bout of psychosis. That he never had
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before. I kept begging for them to do an MRI. They kept refusing. I knew it had to be something with the brain. I also suggested a functional MRI. They refused that also. The decided on electrical convulsive therapy or ECT. I said I would only give them permission ig they did an

MRI first and not until. They asked my son's permission who was in no state to even give permission. I am his legal guardian. So they did the MRI. They told me they did a ct scan on him and it was fine. They did the ECT the next morning. They ended up doing 5-6 total. I told

them after the 2nd one he was regressing to his childhood. They didn't listen till around the last one. It was then they agreed with me. The doctor called to tell me they decided to listen to me and check his old MRIs, they found he was missing a part of his brain. It is called

the cavatum septum pellcidium. It is responsible for his autism spectrum as well as the recent schizophrenia/effective disorder which he was experiencing. It connects the right and left hemisphere of the brain together. I found it is responsible for a variety of key brain

functions. Well because of the ECT and the fact that they didn't check his MRIs before or do one as I asked, the ECT's fried his brain. After the ECT we had a Neuro psy test done it showed that he now has cerebral dysfunction, in ability to learn, picks up 45% of what is said to

him. 😞 if they would have listened to me before the ECT, this would not have happened. He functions at about 8-10 years old now. Closer to 8. Plays with toys again when he can, there is no focus or motivation in his brain. He will watch about 3-5 minutes of things on TV or play

his game. He paces the majority of the time. He has changed so much. His emotions seem to be impacted most of the time numb it seems. He will start brain therapy after his teeth are taken care of. I have been his caregiver though the whole thing. It isn't easy and it is so

exhausting some days. People say how do I do it having several chronic illnesses myself. I just think it is an inate thing we have in our brains. I don't know. But, after having COVID and being a long hauler it has gotten harder. But, I still push forward. Having a young adult

with a rare disease is in a lot of ways heartbreaking. I am doing everything I can to learn about it. I need to get papers together to find an attorney because of the hospital he is going to suffer life long damage. 😞 if they only listened to me in the first place. See we

psychic's have real lives too. Too real. But, having this I knew something was wrong in my son's brain. I don't know how the medical field could miss something this great first 29 years. I seriously don't. Then at 29 they figure it out. When you are missing the septum

pellcidium at about 18-30 years of age you start exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia and psychosis. If we had known this we would have been prepared. But, we didn't and we weren't. It took 6 months until we knew a birth defect was the cause. Think about that, a birth defect.

One that wasn't found until our son was 29. That is 29 years. I still don't get it. How they missed it. No one I know does. This explains the problems he had growing up. It took one through look at an MRI that someone could have done years ago. That's it. #RareDiseaseDay

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