I thought watching a movie on schizophrenia would be comforting because I figured I could relate to it well like how I relate to this forum. It ended up being the opposite and making me very sad watching it because I related to that girl in the movie too well, especially in the beginning. I have voices tell me false things like my boyfriend cheats on me, everyone hates me, ect. just like the main character in the movie and I believe it because they are so influencing and I do terrible decisions based on what they say like wanting to separate myself from everyone. I felt bad seeing how the voices told her about the lies of her boyfriend cheating, her smashing things, etc. because I do that too. I generally try to keep my symptoms to myself to try to be as functional as possible, but I can't always hide my symptoms and ignore them.

My boyfriend had a good question though. In the movie they mentioned recovering schizophrenics and he was surprised that some schizophrenics can become symptom less. He wanted to know how a schizophrenic would know they were recovered if they always take meds, would they have to stop and find out the hard way? I couldn't answer his question since I never met anyone who was seriously ill with schizophrenia become symptom less. I'm assuming this is more common in people that have a more milder case of schizophrenia.