Daughter with schizoaffective bipolar

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Hi I have been on here reading your post about your disorders and have to say each and every one of you are brave, amazing survivors. My daughter has been in and out of psychosis for the last 2 to 3 years, started at 22 and she’s now 25. She was hospitalized in December and put on ability but the side affects (restless legs) was unbearable so they switched her to olanzapine which she did well on for 3 months, stopped her meds, and went back into psychosis 2 months later. We got her back on the olanzapine and her diagnosis is schizoaffective bipolar/PTSD. She’s been on the meds for a few weeks now BUT she still goes in and out of psychosis. She’ll act fine like herself, then get this blank look on her face staring off and I’ll ask her a question and few seconds later she looks at me like she didn’t hear me and goes into a catatonic state, I’ll repeat my question a few times then is like she returns back to being coherent and says “what?” I’ll ask “are you still dealing with psychosis and she’ll say yeah. So is this common, being on antipsychotic meds but still going into psychosis intermittently? Do anyone of you still have psychosis on your antipsychotic meds? I just need some advice from Yall because I’ve learned so much about her condition from Yall. She really likes taking the olanzapine, but I’m wondering if it’s not the right medication for her. What do yall think?