Would you go to the doctor if you didn't feel it was needed?

So I have this question after a funny conversation with my boyfriend.

I forgot what was said but I told him "trust me". Then he said "I'm not taking the word of a person who has schizophrenia!" And I was like... I don't have schizophrenia!
And then he goes to point out that I have to sleep with the light on, and i halucinate regularly. Then I argue that I have never been diagnosed as having schizophrenia.

And he asked if I ever actually told my doctor about those things that I heard and see. And I said no, I'm not going to tell my doctor that I have those issues and I harm myself! They'll put me away forever! Anyway he suggested I should so they could tell me I have schizophrenia.

But that just started the conversation and thought. Is there really a point to going to the doctor to be labled as some thing if you function well enough in society as it is? I don't see a point.

I don't use mds at all, so I would not.

Unless your boyfriend is a doctor he can´t give you a dx of schizophrenia. If you hallucinate regulary I would tell a doctor. It doesn´t mean you´ve got schizophrenia, but would be worth talking to a doctor about. ..and no they won´t put you away forever, tons of people experience this and selfharm. Please go see your gp or a pdoc eventhough your scared or don`t feel like it. They can´t release any info about you to other people unless you agree and tell your boyfriend to be supportive of you instead of putting some label on you.

Well he wasn't really diagnosing me. He knows better. More like telling me I'm not normal.
He has his own things going on being bipolar and tends to have severe issues some times.

But the point is the hallucinations are normal for me and always have been. I don't really see a need for treatment.

I'm just curious If other people would go to a gp or a pdoc for random things like this if it didn't really negatively effect your life.

I would be offended that your boyfriend would not take your word, like having an illness has anything to do with whether one's thoughts/opinion is trustworthy.

I go to the medical doctor every 3 months and discuss my health, all of it. When he wants me to go to specialists, we discuss it and I decide it is/is not what I want to do. Not going to the doctor because one is afraid of what they may or may not tell you is "magical" thinking; the outcome cannot be affected by pretending a condition does not exist. If all you want in life is to be "functional" then that is one thing but I can't imagine you enjoy harming yourself, dealing with hallucinations, being afraid of the dark? Getting a few experts opinions and ideas on what might be done to help; it does not have to be psychiatric medicine, there is counselling and the condition could be caused by something physically wrong, you can't know that unless you get it checked out?

I would go to a doc if I was hallucinating. It'snot normal and could happen due to several reasons- mental illnesses being only one (and minor) area.
And I HATE docs.

Re the BF comment- well, he could have put it better but yes, I could see myself not trusting a word of s.o. hallucinating-depends on the context- if you were telling me about stg you saw/heard I might have my doubts...

If you're functioning fine and don't want to know what doctors think about your hallucinations there's no reason to ask them. I think I'd want to know what they think myself.
Maybe you'd be interested to talk to someone in the Mad Pride movement instead.

No, if it didn't negatively affect my life I would not see a doc about it. That being said you could always find out what it is and not do anything about it. They cant lock you away for SI or hallucinations, only if you say you're going to hurt yourself in the future so just don't say that. Reading your posts I don't get a feeling you're schizophrenic at all. I would recommend seeing a doctor, only because other things can cause hallucinations, like anxiety. If that's the case it might not hurt to treat the anxiety.

Oh boy, trying to be a good roll model here and not get myself in trouble but I have to be honest. I avoid doctors like the plague! The only time I go is when I really need to and I'm not stupid I know when it's time. But I can go months even years without a major break down or serious episode. So I figure might as well enjoy it while I can. I stay med free until it's time again. Not exactly the best thing to do but hey come on, does any one ever go to the dentist regularly or only when they have to?

As for dx's goes. Who cares. Schizo, bipolar, borderline, has no bearing on how intelligent we are. Many amazing minds were also mad.

Not all hallucinations are psyche related. Can be neurological. Brain injuries, i.e., concussions in past, whiplash from accident, etc, can also,be culprit. And, if even psyche related, could be something other. So, tell your bf, no more dxing..

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Actually everyone or almost damn near every one experiences some sort of psychos or hallucination.

dissociation aka.. "zoning out"

Voices Outside Of your head: any one can hear their name called in a busy environment or room or crowd. The brain in this case is processing information too fast and mistakenly sends you a greeting.

Voices Inside of your head: during troubling times one can experience battles, arguments, and negative talk that doesn't seem to be their own thoughts.

Paranoia: I know they were talking about me!

Visual hallucinations: you think you see some thing that is not there and look again and it's gone, or could also be a LSD flash back.

Social Phobia: stage freight!

OCD: You just have to make sure there is no change in the coin return slot in that vending machine.

Split Personality: I never said that!

ASPD: "F*** Off A-hole!"

NPD: How do I look in this out fit?

BPD: Door #1, no wait, door #2, no wait door #3, I'm not sure which to pick!

BP: When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the ride.. helter skelter.

JUST TO NAME A FEW. Is it our fault we are just better at all that?

Your perception of it being normal and lack of concern strikes me as a bit odd. But if you are able to work, study, enjoy dailey living ect. and have a healthy loving relationship with boyfriend, where he doesn´t have to worry about you, then perhaps it´s not something you need treatment for. Who knows. I would diffenately see a doctor. Just because you see one doesn´t mean you have to accept treatment. One could say...seeing a doctor won´t affect you, unless you want it to.

I appreciate all of your concern about me. But I'm also thinking I should not have described the situation that brought this up...I have an guarantee almost that nothing aside from a random mental illness is wrong with me. As most of my halucinations are brought on by stress... which happens to be something that runs in my family. And most of the family members who have went to the doctor about it have had it confirmed nothing is seriously wrong.

It's really just my oppinion that nothing is wrong. It's not harming my life and so on...Trust me If anything seems off to me I will go to the doctor, do not worry. I wouldn't leave it in the hands of a lot of random people to have to tell me to go.

The question to you guys is.. If there was something obviously not normal about the way your brain works. But you don't feel that its a harm to you. Would you still go to the doctor because you are curious or some reason?

It would be a red flag for me if my boyfriend chucked labels at me, especially as you said he was using it to invalidate what you were saying:

"I'm not taking the word of a person who has schizophrenia"

Seriously? Not okay on a number of levels.

I would not. But i hate doctors.

But I have seen few people go to shrink with minor problem (anxiety in completelly reasonable situation) and ending up a diagnosis list, on bunch of pills, all of sudden unable to work or study (when until going to doctor, they were completely fine, asides some trouble talking to hot guys or in front of large audience). Maybe sometimes it's better not to be "affirmed" there's things wrong with you.

If it doesn't bother you, imho doctors are waste of time, money and energy.

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How do you define random mental illness? Are you seeing a T if you don´t like the idea of seeing a doctor? Again ( based on your former threads) If I were in my early tweenties, having abusive relationships in the past ( I´m not sure about your current BF? Uhm..), selfharming and having hallucinations WHILE racing small kids...I wouldn´t spend one second questioning seeing a doctor or telling a T about my "random mental illness". Maybe not for my own sake, but to be able to be the best parent possible and not having some pattern that perhaps run in the family repeat itself ( where these things may be considered " normal"). I don´t know you at all, just a feeling I get and can´t really judge you based on your threads in here. If one of your kids had mental or medical symptoms would you say..oh I don´t really want them seeing a doctor for whatever reason?