[Siena]

Hello all! I have both synesthesia and schizophrenia. The schizophrenia is recent and I'm finding a therapist to help me out. I hear my dead grandfather telling me things whenever I see an opportunity for a mind game and he tells me how to solve it. Sometimes, I play against him in chess.
Anyway, I also have synesthesia since birth, so I see colors and shapes when people talk. When I hear my grandfather's voice, however, I don't see the colors. It's odd.

How do you cope with schizophrenia? Even if you don't have it, how would you advise others deal with it?

Just read as much as you can on the subject. And become active in your own recovery , certainly no point leaving it to other people:

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by Siena

Hello all! I have both synesthesia and schizophrenia. The schizophrenia is recent and I'm finding a therapist to help me out. I hear my dead grandfather telling me things whenever I see an opportunity for a mind game and he tells me how to solve it. Sometimes, I play against him in chess.
Anyway, I also have synesthesia since birth, so I see colors and shapes when people talk. When I hear my grandfather's voice, however, I don't see the colors. It's odd.

How do you cope with schizophrenia? Even if you don't have it, how would you advise others deal with it?

Are you sure you have schizophrenia? Did a doctor tell you...it's much more than just hearing voices...about five percent of the population can hear voices on occasion but only 1% have schizophrenia...

[Sometimes psychotic]

Intervoice: The International Hearing Voices Network

Here is a great website for people who hear voices....

[avlady]

I am diagnosed with schitzophrenia. I do hear voices but the meds control them to a certain degree. I also say to read up more on it and post here if you are having problems you can't handle because of it. I deal with it by meds and docs and t. it really helps to have my t listen to me.

[venusss]

Originally Posted by Siena

Hello all! I have both synesthesia and schizophrenia. The schizophrenia is recent and I'm finding a therapist to help me out. I hear my dead grandfather telling me things whenever I see an opportunity for a mind game and he tells me how to solve it. Sometimes, I play against him in chess.
Anyway, I also have synesthesia since birth, so I see colors and shapes when people talk. When I hear my grandfather's voice, however, I don't see the colors. It's odd.

How do you cope with schizophrenia? Even if you don't have it, how would you advise others deal with it?

does this bother you? If not... I would not call it illness.

personally, i believe you can communicate with the dead, and it bothers me to no end when somebody posts seeing/hearing their dead loved ones and it's automatically assumed as "schizophrenia" and that they should go on anti-psychotics.

If your spirits guide you and help you, then it's a tool, a gift, something to be valued.
(and for the bothersome... there are defenses on spiritual level that often work).

Originally Posted by VenusHalley

personally, i believe you can communicate with the dead, and it bothers me to no end when somebody posts seeing/hearing their dead loved ones and it's automatically assumed as "schizophrenia" and that they should go on anti-psychotics.

I am all up for this talk and possibility I won't deny but when I do have quasi-psychotic delusions, I can think there's holograms and paranormal activity everywhere such as the ceiling communicating with me and giving me useful information and when it's over I think "Was I really going to do all of these things to try and improve my life and think I'm a genius?". That comes with other problems such as suicidal thoughts (when I've never been suicidal for a long time), agitation. Something that can be fixed by antipsychotics. But I don't think it's psychosis but anxiety. And if I had benzos I would take those. But good thing I'm an alcoholic right? Much better than antipsychotics.

And yes, of course the people that hear voices likely don't have schizophrenia but I think I'd rather take an antipsychotic than to get PTSD from hearing my dead loved ones. Maybe that's just me but it's scary as hell I'm sure. I think voices get worse over time because if you're delusional enough to have your senses affected by it, it's likely that you will believe them since they are so real.

And If they are in fact real spirits, then why don't they hear the dead loved ones communicating to them when they take antipsychotics?

[venusss]

And If they are in fact real spirits, then why don't they hear the dead loved ones communicating to them when they take antipsychotics?

Well, APs dull your perception even of wordly things. Some people lose their creativity on them. Stop enjoying art as much. Are these things psychosis? How about anorgasmia? At one point you will be dulled enough not to care anymore. And many reported APs don't stop these things completely.

Dead trying to talk to you is only scary if you let it be. Sure, I had few sleepless nights over random dead. But then again, if you consider Sarajevo or Pristinë appropriate vacation spot, you gonna brace yourself for sleepless nights. Maybe I was psyching myself out.

It depends on personal sensitivity. I am extremely sensitive to this stuff. And I psyche myself out, so I am the chick who cries at sites of history. Mind you, I am from Europe too, right now living in Prague. Can't walk the downtown streets without mixture of odd feeling of awe.

Nonononono lol nonono as soon as I heard my mom talking to me when she wasn't there, I had enough. Well not really.. When I'm in that state, it's not scary I think.

But now thinking about it I would blow it waaay out of proportion. I can't have dead people talking to me. It's so incredibly scary. Just the feeling of it AND THEN HEARING THEM?? Noo way. No. My pillow used to turn into a dead sheep head except its alive and it has a human voice except it doesn't talk.

[venusss]

I guess I spend so much time at alternative and yoga workshops, that I consider it perfectly normal.

My flashvisions scare me more, cause they are smetimes disturbing, sometimes confusing... and sometimes kinda prophetic. My eh. Visions and hallucinations about death are the worst. I am actually thankful for my spirits at the point. They seem to protect me.

Originally Posted by VenusHalley

I am actually thankful for my spirits at the point. They seem to protect me.

Ya there's this "spirit". Idk what to call it. I think of it as a "good entity" that gives me knowledge. It's a lot smaller than the paranormal activity which is made up of steel cylinders and they are pointed and mangled together in a twisted shape. But they also turn into purple clouds and cover up the places that I don't usually go. I don't hate them they are just there because they have to be.

Of course it makes no sense what so ever to anyone else but it's meaningful I suppose. Weird thoughts like these basically determine a lot of the things that I do. God should I post this craziness..

*send..*

[venusss]

I read once somewhere that few centuries ago, it was consider more "normal" to have paranormal experience.

Maybe it's cause we try to explain everything scientifically and when it fails (we know so little about brain), we see it as symptom of crazyness. Fear of the unknown? The mystic?

[emeraldstars]

For me is listening to those who had been on this road far longer than myself and see what works for them. I ain't afraid to try something new or different if it might give me a moment of peace.

[rouncer]

i dont really see the issue is schizophrenia, the issue is the medication for me, i just cant take i want to die.