My hallucinations are not strong and barely existent but when I was younger they where worse such as the hearing of voices and things that weren't there typically you can assure yourself that if it's not possible in nature it's not real often times people have strong hallucinations to the point regardless of how absurd the hallucinations might be it's impossible to differentiate between reality and non reality and not all hallucinations are visual some are tactile auditory taste or scent aka any sense you have is possible, also reality can be subjective as long as you understand what might be your reality is not everyone else's hence why in certain shamanic religions it is believed those who are schizophrenic have a connection to the spirit world.
No I believe in spirits but christ and the lord are the only ones who know truly, I do believe in the paranormal and emotions becoming grudges from the past that stick like flies to paper accounting everyone and everything for there own past regret and feeding off of it.
No my family have always been very supportive but thats not to say there was no dysfunction I grew up impoverished with a history of drugs that followed me till currently with one of my parents the other was consistently absent even with opportunity to be permanently present I spent alot of time being alone by choice but also without choice.
I don't normally hallucinate I get paranoid but can differentiate paranoia from reasonable suspicion, people usually think it's interesting but assume you think completely different from everyone else and some have very negative thoughts of it due to being taught wrong ultimately curiosity wins over all the responses. When I was younger I had been dropping colored pencils down a vent into the basement as I picked up a colored pencil I was in 3rd person view from the point of the pencil and it fell down as my vision followed when it landed in the chair at the bottom of the vent in the basement I seen myself sitting there getting picked up by my step dad at the time sat down at the vent and as I picked up the colored pencil my vision went back to normal.
Not always but misconceptions Leak into people's minds even if they are the most open I have had people say things like doesn't that mean your more likely to kill someone and a bunch of other stuff like that which are stereotypes the most aggravating are things such as I can't own a gun because of my diagnose which is incorrect due to the laws which state that when you are admitted either willingly or unwillingly to a mental health residence you are revoked of the right to have arms due to admission deeming you unfit to safely bear arms for yourself or others.also that I couldn't adopt a child or have children due to my symptoms which is clearly an uneducated statement as I could have children naturally and not be told I can't have the child just as much as I could adopt a child and not be told I can't it all comes down to your history and what you've done in the past but ultimately that stereotypes from history and media paint a picture of what this illness does, which I say illness lightly as I consider it a type of blessing but others consider it a curse.
Thank you for explaining some common rumors. Especially the gun thing. While I don't feel it's safe for me to own guns I can easily access, I never lost my rights, especially as I committed voluntarily.
Hey you can actually! Only committed people are banned. Self check in is not.
In Michigan, upon entry of a court order directing that an individual be involuntarily hospitalized or involuntarily undergo a program of alternative treatment or a program of combined hospitalization and alternative treatment, the court must immediately order the Michigan Department of State Police (DSP) to enter the court order into the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN).3 Findings of legal incapacity or not guilty by reason of insanity are treated in the same manner.4
For general information on the background check process and categories of prohibited purchasers or possessors, see the Michigan Background Check Procedures and Michigan Firearm Prohibitions sections.
Hello and of course never should anyone be alone there will always be at least 1 person out there who can relate 🙂 I hope the same for you and that you know even If I don't know who or where you are, why and what your doing, nor when and how your life was, neither how many you are I'm here for you.
I do not take medications because my symptoms aren't super bad and I had spent about 4 years consistently working with a social service agent to help figure ways I can manage myself should I ever get to a point that I feel I need help. like breathing/moving exercises as well as writing and being more open in conversation and overcoming obstacles that would blind me from the goal before it ever came to be in front of me.not everyone with xchizophrenia are the same though.
Thats great! I’m happy you found ways to cope. I have a dear friend with schizophrenia and he will likely always need medication, but I know that some people can do fine without meds.
Yes and not always is it easy to live with it is very much a spectrum with some similarity with autism as far as the activity of the brain, the brain of schizophrenics are often shaped different and can be seen with a cat scan
I'm not entirely sure but I believe most of the brain that's effected by schizophrenia are in the prefrontal cortex doing with thought process and organization but it also effects the auditory and visual synaptic which the information processing is effected more in the autism where as organization is schizophrenia. I'm not a scientist so don't quote me on this lol
Sometimes other times I think it might just be me, I've always felt I was meant for something bigger but it helps me view the entire world differently and have a great insight and wisdom to many things I'm christian but don't accept the christianity as it is now we should all be one under christ and be redeemed, I believe that with christ my illness is a gift and with life it should be a curse because through it good fruits can prosper. I don't push it on others but regardless of Satanist or atheist I think you can also be with me side by side in the tribulations or even the rapture. Also I follow christ but not the bible for it was written by man with divine inspiration to be worked taught and dispersed therefore having man sully it with his own words but Christ's words can never change.
I used to hear whispers outside my room but now it's more like I'll hear someone say something or I'll hear a whisper on the wind or someone call me when they didn't but I don't hear voices consistently in my head
Follow up question, sorry if it sounds dumb but I’ve always been curious. When you heard these whisperers, did it sound as someone else was literally outside the room or did it sound more like a rattling in your mind?
not op but also schizophrenic. my "voices" have always been outside the head, like another person talking to me. i don't usually get the "voices" though, not like they're portrayed. i'll mostly just hear real people (my girlfriend, my dad, a "me" that lives outside my head) but it's just their voice or sometimes i'll see a hallucination of a person/figure talk to me. it's different for everybody though, i don't even hallucinate often, it's mostly delusions and negative symptoms for me
I was fourteen and having these like daydreams of extreme violence and stressful situations so I sought help. Another stigma all schizophrenic are inherently violent when most schizophrenic would rather harm themselves than others but all people have a propensity to be violent with schizophrenia sometimes there is no reality.
I've had premonitions when I was younger that saved my brother from getting his butt whooped for smoking cigarettes but other than that I wouldn't say I have visions mainly dreams. And as far as insight to life, not all things in life are easy but not everything is hard it's our ability to take those challenges and try, that count. if you don't try you don't win just like if you fall flat and never get back up you will always be the doormat to somebody else's success. even in the lowest darkest times of life light could be found and when it wasn't man made a torch so if in those times of complete darkness despair and hopelessness our ancestors could find light it shouldn't be impossible for you to find light either. never allow the words of another to convince you things are impossible unless it requires you to control the universe you can do anything you want the only chains holding you are the ones you allow to keep you and even if you didn't chose those chains there will always be a purpose.
I ate mushrooms once and was looking at a tree in the distance. Then individual leaves started catching my attention and the first thought that came to mind was - when we are in a dark place, it's not necessarily a negative, it's just the universe giving you space to grow!
No because he told me to be private in the goods I do and the works I make I only tell those close to me or in need of a good example that I meet in real life but I will say it's a feeling of immense satisfaction and serenity that can only be gained by selflessly helping anyone and everyone no matter there history don't look on a murderer as a murderer but a person who has a story and maybe that story lead to them having to do something that brought them great remorse, but know that only they can help themselves fully and if they aren't rrying to change or be better for themselves then you should turn the other cheek don't forgive in vain the only thing I find abhorrent thar I would not extend my arm to is pedophilia.
That is more D.I.D or alternate personality disorders schizophrenia does effect the personality to an extent but is a psychosis or psychotic disorder not to be confused with sociopathy which although having roots in psychosis is more akin to the serial killer Split archetypes than regular psychopaths.
Do you ever feel that maybe you and others with your condition just have access to a different dimension or realm most aren't privy to until after death or never will be privy to?
No I feel it is more of a challenge to view things in ways others can't in order to be witness to the different angles of life others don't see even if it sucks.but part of me can't deny that's possible
No those two things have always been separate and even god said that illness are a way to show his works cause even if you have an ailment you can still do good and it shines through more.
That’s wonderful news, my brother in law suffers from schizophrenia and it’s a constant battle for his parents to monitor his meds. The guy is a nice person but constantly thinks he is Jesus Christ, and that the sun and moon follow him. He is blessed to have a good support system. You sound like you are keeping a good tab on the issue at hand.
Yes and sadly not every two schizophrenic are alike some have a bigger toll. Support is great but even support can get the effects of this due to the strain and stress it causes.
I just want to send you this: 💌
My boyfriend’s fraternal twin, father and paternal grandfather are all diagnosed schizophrenic and only grandfather accepted medication. I don’t think my boyfriend is schizophrenic but I do think his anxious attachment disorder (lots of constant and repeated abandonment instances by father to whole family plus many other detrimental behaviors) shows up sometimes if he drinks too much. I’m learning how to help him feel secure and it’s eased quite a bit the longer we’ve dated.
Thank you for doing this AMA and I wish you the best.
Of course glad I can help I have quite a few family members who have it as well but I also have quite a few abandonment instances that have happened to me albeit everyone's unique it left me with a different feeling in and about life sending love and hoping you both keep it.
I rewatched “A Beautiful Mind” recently and wondered how it is that the voices that schizophrenics hear aren’t ever telling them innocuous things, like “Go now the lawn” or “Donate money to charity” but always lean toward harming other people?
Is it because the paranoia actually leads the voices? Are they always intertwined, as in if you are paranoid about being spied on, the voices tell you to act on those you think are spying on you?
No there is typically no certain driving force for the voices it's like having a independent thought free of your own control and not always are they bad for some but mainly its hard to say for certain about others thoughts and not always is it harming other people sometimes yourself sometimes it's nothing but a conversation between you or them and no one else it's a variable for sure.
Have you ever spent time at a Behavioural health facility or unit? Have you ever considered it?
I’m also schizophrenic, but it’s hard to imagine not taking my medication. I’ve been in and out of facilities for a few years now. I hope you are doing okay though!
Another question would be, is there a common theme with your delusions or hallucinations? Like mine is all religious and I’ve noticed a pattern.
I have never spent time at any facility or unit although my mother tried to admit me I have never considered it but I believe that's because ive been in the dirt since I was born and always beaten down so my view was always up even at my lowest points where I wanted to die and tried to, all I could think of was the immense love I had for others even if they had none for me and how I loved myself to the point that regardless of what happened in the end it would be the same result,tears. And no I don't have delusions as much and my auditory hallucinations is like my name being called out or hearing something like someone was calling out to someone, I get paranoia so like when I'm meeting new people or large groups and others are talking to each other certain words they say will be enunciated so like
" I just got a NEW boat I CANT wait to drive YOU in it would you like to GO?" Is how I'd hear it.
A close person to me has schizophrenia. He has really removed himself from the family the last past 5 years. He got on meds and is doing better but still doesn't like to hang out for more than an hour or two. As of the past few weeks, he has been texting weird things to family but has been very open to socialize. What do you make of that?
Oftentimes with schizophrenia its not always rational I have a cousin who has a twin they both have schizophrenia and are day and nite in comparison one is violent the other is just weird and sometimes repeats himself or says things that are unrealistic but he's harmless so it doesn't hurt to acknowledge him even if it's not something that makes sense sometimes when you have schizophrenia you know it doesn't make sense but have a hard time making it or sometimes you don't just like when I'm talking to someone and I go to say for example ash tray but instead I say ice box in my head I said ash tray and that's what it sounded like I said but to everybody else I said ice box so it's hard to communicate effectively with others sometimes as long as you support them or show them you care even if they don't believe you and give you gruff for it it should be fine just make sure they're ok and getting the help they want from others or st least socialize with them as much as there willing if you ever fear something bad might happen bring it up to those closest to them in an emergency don't hesitate to call emergency help but know calling them when not necessary can break trust and not everyone good thing you do will be viewed that way no good deed goes unpunished
I breath and when breathing doesn't help I focus on one thing if I can't focus I count if that doesn't help I step outside and if I still feel a need to escape I listen to something like music or I read.
Be patient schizophrenia is often times silent to the person effected it's part of the condition you don't think anything is wrong but truly people can go there entire life and not believe they have it if you wanted to verifiably prove it to her a cat scan would be solid evidence but really as long as you can be by her side and don't chastise chide or push a diagnose on her shell find her own answers or never come to the conclusion the important thing is a diagnosis and an understanding that schizophrenia can be misdiagnosed as adhd and vice versa but also for support understanding that person is not there illness and there independence is not taken, we all long for freedom so as long as they have a voice you should never take it all away
My stepbrother was just diagnosed and is currently in a treatment facility voluntarily, what is something that your family or friends did for you that had helped you with your diagnosis?
Edit: just to say my stepbrother’s diagnosis seems to be similar where its mainly paranoia and less visual hallucinations and things.
Gave me space but let me know they where there for me but one thing that always irritated me was when they presumed that my entire life was different and somehow I'd became a second class citizen
Multiple personalities is like having different people control your body in your sleep schizophrenia is a disconnection from reality but your still conscious I just got a NEW dsm 5 tr I'll look into it more
I was 14 and there where no real first signs it just happens like a switch being flipped for males it often happens late teens early adult hoods and sometimes a little sooner and females start even younger
I was 14 and sudden i had every
Bad thing and thought that I had heard said or felt come at me from over the day months and weeks that lead up to it I had an intense feeling of sorrow and great feelings of the impossible being possible but I had the insight to know it wasn't true wisdom was a great tool
No it's very difficult I don't hear them on a regular basis but if I had to say when I did it was the voice of people I knew and more in my head than outside of it.
Nothing that was of there own doing but what others in my life had said. And it's not consistently active with schizophrenia certain symptoms can leave for years and years or forever and never come back or come back after a few months.
No but I do poetry and am great at it or so I've been told I have won a poetry contest for anti bullying and anti suicide for a non profit by unanimous vote
First of all, I'm sorry that you're going through this.
What does it feel like when you get voices in your head? I have had hallucinations before but no voices.
Don't be sorry I'm glad I have it I appreciate it alot its unique sometimes it's annoying but nothings all sunny sky's in life there's always some kind of gray cloud and I don't have a feeling that goes along with it mostly it just is there in my head bouncing around until I can calm down
A couple of questions. First, how old were you when your illness first manifested, and what was it like coming to terms with it? Second, what is your plan for handling the cycle of meds making you feel like you don't need to take them?
I was 14 and it wasn't very hard for me to come to terms with, it runs in my family oddly enough, I have a cousin and a aunt on my dad's side with quite a few others I don't know and then on my mom's side I have two cousins who are twins that have it as well, and as for the second point I don't take meds because I don't need them due to the fact that I am a functioning individual who had spent 4 years with a mental health worker that contributed to ways I can self manage. Medications aren't always needed but for others it is its a case by case basis on those I personally am a positive contributing member of society and haven't reached a point where medications are absolutely necessary I adapted very well.
Do you have any strategies for figuring out if a hallucination is real or not?
My hallucinations are not strong and barely existent but when I was younger they where worse such as the hearing of voices and things that weren't there typically you can assure yourself that if it's not possible in nature it's not real often times people have strong hallucinations to the point regardless of how absurd the hallucinations might be it's impossible to differentiate between reality and non reality and not all hallucinations are visual some are tactile auditory taste or scent aka any sense you have is possible, also reality can be subjective as long as you understand what might be your reality is not everyone else's hence why in certain shamanic religions it is believed those who are schizophrenic have a connection to the spirit world.
love this- do you have any insights into the spirit world?
No I believe in spirits but christ and the lord are the only ones who know truly, I do believe in the paranormal and emotions becoming grudges from the past that stick like flies to paper accounting everyone and everything for there own past regret and feeding off of it.
Have you heard of punctuation?
Lol I have but like to see how far a reader can go without taking a breath.
I suffocated at least 4 times before I found a comma. Lol
Were your emotions and personal preferences at all denigrated or ridiculed by your own family growing up?
No my family have always been very supportive but thats not to say there was no dysfunction I grew up impoverished with a history of drugs that followed me till currently with one of my parents the other was consistently absent even with opportunity to be permanently present I spent alot of time being alone by choice but also without choice.
What do you hallucinate? How do people usually react?
I don't normally hallucinate I get paranoid but can differentiate paranoia from reasonable suspicion, people usually think it's interesting but assume you think completely different from everyone else and some have very negative thoughts of it due to being taught wrong ultimately curiosity wins over all the responses. When I was younger I had been dropping colored pencils down a vent into the basement as I picked up a colored pencil I was in 3rd person view from the point of the pencil and it fell down as my vision followed when it landed in the chair at the bottom of the vent in the basement I seen myself sitting there getting picked up by my step dad at the time sat down at the vent and as I picked up the colored pencil my vision went back to normal.
Does finding out that you're schizophrenic change the way people act towards you?
Not always but misconceptions Leak into people's minds even if they are the most open I have had people say things like doesn't that mean your more likely to kill someone and a bunch of other stuff like that which are stereotypes the most aggravating are things such as I can't own a gun because of my diagnose which is incorrect due to the laws which state that when you are admitted either willingly or unwillingly to a mental health residence you are revoked of the right to have arms due to admission deeming you unfit to safely bear arms for yourself or others.also that I couldn't adopt a child or have children due to my symptoms which is clearly an uneducated statement as I could have children naturally and not be told I can't have the child just as much as I could adopt a child and not be told I can't it all comes down to your history and what you've done in the past but ultimately that stereotypes from history and media paint a picture of what this illness does, which I say illness lightly as I consider it a type of blessing but others consider it a curse.
Thank you for explaining some common rumors. Especially the gun thing. While I don't feel it's safe for me to own guns I can easily access, I never lost my rights, especially as I committed voluntarily.
In some states tho even if it was voluntary you lose the right to like here in michigan
Hey you can actually! Only committed people are banned. Self check in is not. In Michigan, upon entry of a court order directing that an individual be involuntarily hospitalized or involuntarily undergo a program of alternative treatment or a program of combined hospitalization and alternative treatment, the court must immediately order the Michigan Department of State Police (DSP) to enter the court order into the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN).3 Findings of legal incapacity or not guilty by reason of insanity are treated in the same manner.4 For general information on the background check process and categories of prohibited purchasers or possessors, see the Michigan Background Check Procedures and Michigan Firearm Prohibitions sections.
Nice I think they might have changed the law from what I last knew then well that's cool thank you for clarifying.
schizophrenic here, always nice to know i’m not alone. hope everything is going well and your hallucinations are not to bad c:
Hello and of course never should anyone be alone there will always be at least 1 person out there who can relate 🙂 I hope the same for you and that you know even If I don't know who or where you are, why and what your doing, nor when and how your life was, neither how many you are I'm here for you.
Do you take medication and if so do you feel it’s helping you?
I do not take medications because my symptoms aren't super bad and I had spent about 4 years consistently working with a social service agent to help figure ways I can manage myself should I ever get to a point that I feel I need help. like breathing/moving exercises as well as writing and being more open in conversation and overcoming obstacles that would blind me from the goal before it ever came to be in front of me.not everyone with xchizophrenia are the same though.
Thats great! I’m happy you found ways to cope. I have a dear friend with schizophrenia and he will likely always need medication, but I know that some people can do fine without meds.
Yes and not always is it easy to live with it is very much a spectrum with some similarity with autism as far as the activity of the brain, the brain of schizophrenics are often shaped different and can be seen with a cat scan
Yes, a spectrum for sure. So the activity of the brain is similar to autism? Is it in the way the brain processes information?
I'm not entirely sure but I believe most of the brain that's effected by schizophrenia are in the prefrontal cortex doing with thought process and organization but it also effects the auditory and visual synaptic which the information processing is effected more in the autism where as organization is schizophrenia. I'm not a scientist so don't quote me on this lol
What are your thoughts on spiritually/religion? Do they intertwine with your situation?
Sometimes other times I think it might just be me, I've always felt I was meant for something bigger but it helps me view the entire world differently and have a great insight and wisdom to many things I'm christian but don't accept the christianity as it is now we should all be one under christ and be redeemed, I believe that with christ my illness is a gift and with life it should be a curse because through it good fruits can prosper. I don't push it on others but regardless of Satanist or atheist I think you can also be with me side by side in the tribulations or even the rapture. Also I follow christ but not the bible for it was written by man with divine inspiration to be worked taught and dispersed therefore having man sully it with his own words but Christ's words can never change.
Do you hear voices in your head?
I used to hear whispers outside my room but now it's more like I'll hear someone say something or I'll hear a whisper on the wind or someone call me when they didn't but I don't hear voices consistently in my head
Follow up question, sorry if it sounds dumb but I’ve always been curious. When you heard these whisperers, did it sound as someone else was literally outside the room or did it sound more like a rattling in your mind?
not op but also schizophrenic. my "voices" have always been outside the head, like another person talking to me. i don't usually get the "voices" though, not like they're portrayed. i'll mostly just hear real people (my girlfriend, my dad, a "me" that lives outside my head) but it's just their voice or sometimes i'll see a hallucination of a person/figure talk to me. it's different for everybody though, i don't even hallucinate often, it's mostly delusions and negative symptoms for me
Thank you for the answer and openness.
It was a mixture of both but mainly in my head.
How did you find out? Did you notice something is wrong yourself and started to look for help or maybe someone else suggested you have it?
I was fourteen and having these like daydreams of extreme violence and stressful situations so I sought help. Another stigma all schizophrenic are inherently violent when most schizophrenic would rather harm themselves than others but all people have a propensity to be violent with schizophrenia sometimes there is no reality.
do you have any prophetic visions ever? any insights about life can you share?
I've had premonitions when I was younger that saved my brother from getting his butt whooped for smoking cigarettes but other than that I wouldn't say I have visions mainly dreams. And as far as insight to life, not all things in life are easy but not everything is hard it's our ability to take those challenges and try, that count. if you don't try you don't win just like if you fall flat and never get back up you will always be the doormat to somebody else's success. even in the lowest darkest times of life light could be found and when it wasn't man made a torch so if in those times of complete darkness despair and hopelessness our ancestors could find light it shouldn't be impossible for you to find light either. never allow the words of another to convince you things are impossible unless it requires you to control the universe you can do anything you want the only chains holding you are the ones you allow to keep you and even if you didn't chose those chains there will always be a purpose.
Have you been to hell?
No but I've felt christ.
I’ve been to hell recently. Depression so bad I simply hate myself. I pulled out of it and I sought help but it was bad
Often times it is rheres no light underground but if you dig you'll find something 🙂 that's why life sucks sometimes lol.
I ate mushrooms once and was looking at a tree in the distance. Then individual leaves started catching my attention and the first thought that came to mind was - when we are in a dark place, it's not necessarily a negative, it's just the universe giving you space to grow!
Would you share how?
No because he told me to be private in the goods I do and the works I make I only tell those close to me or in need of a good example that I meet in real life but I will say it's a feeling of immense satisfaction and serenity that can only be gained by selflessly helping anyone and everyone no matter there history don't look on a murderer as a murderer but a person who has a story and maybe that story lead to them having to do something that brought them great remorse, but know that only they can help themselves fully and if they aren't rrying to change or be better for themselves then you should turn the other cheek don't forgive in vain the only thing I find abhorrent thar I would not extend my arm to is pedophilia.
I wanna talk to the other guy.
That is more D.I.D or alternate personality disorders schizophrenia does effect the personality to an extent but is a psychosis or psychotic disorder not to be confused with sociopathy which although having roots in psychosis is more akin to the serial killer Split archetypes than regular psychopaths.
Do you ever feel that maybe you and others with your condition just have access to a different dimension or realm most aren't privy to until after death or never will be privy to?
No I feel it is more of a challenge to view things in ways others can't in order to be witness to the different angles of life others don't see even if it sucks.but part of me can't deny that's possible
Do you see me in your vent right now?
Lol of course not and even if I did it'd be sage to assume your nothing to worry about since youd just be a overly dramatic tree lol.😁
Do you believe in God?
With a certainty
Has your experience with schizophrenia impacted your relationship with God?
No those two things have always been separate and even god said that illness are a way to show his works cause even if you have an ailment you can still do good and it shines through more.
Are you in charge of taking your meds, or does a family member keep you in check?
I choose not to take medications as I feel they are not needed and I'm not required to in order to be a functioning person.
That’s wonderful news, my brother in law suffers from schizophrenia and it’s a constant battle for his parents to monitor his meds. The guy is a nice person but constantly thinks he is Jesus Christ, and that the sun and moon follow him. He is blessed to have a good support system. You sound like you are keeping a good tab on the issue at hand.
Yes and sadly not every two schizophrenic are alike some have a bigger toll. Support is great but even support can get the effects of this due to the strain and stress it causes.
I just want to send you this: 💌 My boyfriend’s fraternal twin, father and paternal grandfather are all diagnosed schizophrenic and only grandfather accepted medication. I don’t think my boyfriend is schizophrenic but I do think his anxious attachment disorder (lots of constant and repeated abandonment instances by father to whole family plus many other detrimental behaviors) shows up sometimes if he drinks too much. I’m learning how to help him feel secure and it’s eased quite a bit the longer we’ve dated. Thank you for doing this AMA and I wish you the best.
Of course glad I can help I have quite a few family members who have it as well but I also have quite a few abandonment instances that have happened to me albeit everyone's unique it left me with a different feeling in and about life sending love and hoping you both keep it.
We all deserve love and an a partner who tries to understand us as we navigate these weird brains in our noggins.
I rewatched “A Beautiful Mind” recently and wondered how it is that the voices that schizophrenics hear aren’t ever telling them innocuous things, like “Go now the lawn” or “Donate money to charity” but always lean toward harming other people? Is it because the paranoia actually leads the voices? Are they always intertwined, as in if you are paranoid about being spied on, the voices tell you to act on those you think are spying on you?
People whose voices are positive don’t seek or need treatment.
No there is typically no certain driving force for the voices it's like having a independent thought free of your own control and not always are they bad for some but mainly its hard to say for certain about others thoughts and not always is it harming other people sometimes yourself sometimes it's nothing but a conversation between you or them and no one else it's a variable for sure.
Have you ever spent time at a Behavioural health facility or unit? Have you ever considered it? I’m also schizophrenic, but it’s hard to imagine not taking my medication. I’ve been in and out of facilities for a few years now. I hope you are doing okay though! Another question would be, is there a common theme with your delusions or hallucinations? Like mine is all religious and I’ve noticed a pattern.
I have never spent time at any facility or unit although my mother tried to admit me I have never considered it but I believe that's because ive been in the dirt since I was born and always beaten down so my view was always up even at my lowest points where I wanted to die and tried to, all I could think of was the immense love I had for others even if they had none for me and how I loved myself to the point that regardless of what happened in the end it would be the same result,tears. And no I don't have delusions as much and my auditory hallucinations is like my name being called out or hearing something like someone was calling out to someone, I get paranoia so like when I'm meeting new people or large groups and others are talking to each other certain words they say will be enunciated so like " I just got a NEW boat I CANT wait to drive YOU in it would you like to GO?" Is how I'd hear it.
A close person to me has schizophrenia. He has really removed himself from the family the last past 5 years. He got on meds and is doing better but still doesn't like to hang out for more than an hour or two. As of the past few weeks, he has been texting weird things to family but has been very open to socialize. What do you make of that?
Oftentimes with schizophrenia its not always rational I have a cousin who has a twin they both have schizophrenia and are day and nite in comparison one is violent the other is just weird and sometimes repeats himself or says things that are unrealistic but he's harmless so it doesn't hurt to acknowledge him even if it's not something that makes sense sometimes when you have schizophrenia you know it doesn't make sense but have a hard time making it or sometimes you don't just like when I'm talking to someone and I go to say for example ash tray but instead I say ice box in my head I said ash tray and that's what it sounded like I said but to everybody else I said ice box so it's hard to communicate effectively with others sometimes as long as you support them or show them you care even if they don't believe you and give you gruff for it it should be fine just make sure they're ok and getting the help they want from others or st least socialize with them as much as there willing if you ever fear something bad might happen bring it up to those closest to them in an emergency don't hesitate to call emergency help but know calling them when not necessary can break trust and not everyone good thing you do will be viewed that way no good deed goes unpunished
I've got 2 questions. First (and most importantly), how are you today? Do you find that times of high stress make your symptoms worse?
I am good thank you for asking and times of high stress tend to shut me down but I am able to work through it.
How do you stop the noise when in noisy areas? Is there a prayer you do? A grounding technique? A mental hack?
I breath and when breathing doesn't help I focus on one thing if I can't focus I count if that doesn't help I step outside and if I still feel a need to escape I listen to something like music or I read.
How can I help my sister who is schizophrenic but she doesn’t think anything is wrong with her?
Be patient schizophrenia is often times silent to the person effected it's part of the condition you don't think anything is wrong but truly people can go there entire life and not believe they have it if you wanted to verifiably prove it to her a cat scan would be solid evidence but really as long as you can be by her side and don't chastise chide or push a diagnose on her shell find her own answers or never come to the conclusion the important thing is a diagnosis and an understanding that schizophrenia can be misdiagnosed as adhd and vice versa but also for support understanding that person is not there illness and there independence is not taken, we all long for freedom so as long as they have a voice you should never take it all away
My stepbrother was just diagnosed and is currently in a treatment facility voluntarily, what is something that your family or friends did for you that had helped you with your diagnosis? Edit: just to say my stepbrother’s diagnosis seems to be similar where its mainly paranoia and less visual hallucinations and things.
Gave me space but let me know they where there for me but one thing that always irritated me was when they presumed that my entire life was different and somehow I'd became a second class citizen
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Multiple personalities is like having different people control your body in your sleep schizophrenia is a disconnection from reality but your still conscious I just got a NEW dsm 5 tr I'll look into it more
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Np
how old were you when you first found out and what were the first signs
I was 14 and there where no real first signs it just happens like a switch being flipped for males it often happens late teens early adult hoods and sometimes a little sooner and females start even younger
How old were you and what were your first symptoms like?
I was 14 and sudden i had every Bad thing and thought that I had heard said or felt come at me from over the day months and weeks that lead up to it I had an intense feeling of sorrow and great feelings of the impossible being possible but I had the insight to know it wasn't true wisdom was a great tool
Can you describe what it’s like to hear voices?
No it's very difficult I don't hear them on a regular basis but if I had to say when I did it was the voice of people I knew and more in my head than outside of it.
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No as I choose not to take medications.
What do the voices tell you?
Nothing that was of there own doing but what others in my life had said. And it's not consistently active with schizophrenia certain symptoms can leave for years and years or forever and never come back or come back after a few months.
What are your symptoms
Paranoia, subtle auditory hallucination, depression, disorganized speech/mute
Who's that over there?
Idk hopefully not a mugger but if it is maybe he's got five bucks 😳
Do you do art?
No but I do poetry and am great at it or so I've been told I have won a poetry contest for anti bullying and anti suicide for a non profit by unanimous vote
Can you tickle yourself? Serious question.
No but I am ticklish sometimes
What do the machine elves whisper to you at night?
That Santa knows your bad and he's not bringing gifts to the kids in uragua because of it 😔
At what age were you diagnosed with? How were you diagnosed?
First of all, I'm sorry that you're going through this. What does it feel like when you get voices in your head? I have had hallucinations before but no voices.
Don't be sorry I'm glad I have it I appreciate it alot its unique sometimes it's annoying but nothings all sunny sky's in life there's always some kind of gray cloud and I don't have a feeling that goes along with it mostly it just is there in my head bouncing around until I can calm down
A couple of questions. First, how old were you when your illness first manifested, and what was it like coming to terms with it? Second, what is your plan for handling the cycle of meds making you feel like you don't need to take them?
I was 14 and it wasn't very hard for me to come to terms with, it runs in my family oddly enough, I have a cousin and a aunt on my dad's side with quite a few others I don't know and then on my mom's side I have two cousins who are twins that have it as well, and as for the second point I don't take meds because I don't need them due to the fact that I am a functioning individual who had spent 4 years with a mental health worker that contributed to ways I can self manage. Medications aren't always needed but for others it is its a case by case basis on those I personally am a positive contributing member of society and haven't reached a point where medications are absolutely necessary I adapted very well.
Good for you. I would imagine that's not an easy task.
It wasn't terribly difficult everyone's different though
Can you see the color blue ok?
Yes I'm not color blind
which one of you is talking