[cs9212]

I think I may have schizophrenia and I'm worried. I already have anxiety but I've been seeing things I know can't be real, I feel like people are talking behind my back saying horrible things or I'll think someone has said something horrible to me. I know it's not really happening though, I sometimes feel like I'm losing touch with reality. I'm going to go to doctors but not sure what to expect. Any suggestions? Anyone else feel like this? Advice is very welcome. im only 19.and feeling very scared about the whole thing. Thanks

[Firecrystal]

A few years ago I was suffering hallucinations and hearing voices. I was diagnosed with psychosis. Spent a few days in a hospital and when I went home, things didn't improve. The voices influenced what coloured clothes I wore, what colours to avoid, what to eat and not eat, what to watch on TV, what books to avoid reading. The voices belonged to a group of angels, spirits of dead people and even loved one. Some seemed lovely but others were threatening. One "angel" threatened to blind me if I didn't do as I was told. It caused me health problems. I was put away in hospital for longer and given regular daily meds Quetiapine. I was in hospital for the whole summer and when I returned home, was still under the mental health care and got several visitors a week. A CPN, OT (occupational therapist) and a psychiatrist saw me each day. A year later the Quetiapine was reduced and I had visits only from CPN who came once a week, and I saw the psychiatrist once a month. Two years later I was better and discharged. But then I suffered depression and severe social anxiety. Put on Citalopram. I also was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. Now taking thyroxin meds since I had my thyroid taken out and also on reduced Citalopram. Been in the wars, yeah but the effects of the psychosis still remain because everyone has been affected by me when I was ill. People from relatives to friends and the whole community look at me as insane and don't take me seriously. I find that I have trouble getting employment now, even voluntary work because of my mental health issues.

[worthit]

It's definitely difficult and challenging (sp) having a mental illness. We all have our stories of suffering and you as well. It took me 4 years to get the right medications and my pdoc says it looks like I'm one of those who will have symptoms through the meds. So that's what I'm stuck with. Good luck.

[sun light of tears]

Hi I'm new to this just need some help and support. I lost my grandmother a month ago I'm not dealing with it to well. I have bipolor and schizophrenia which I accept who I am today I'm not ashamed of it. I do not take medication at all just don't want to be a lab rat on too many pills. I just need some help to working the five steps of grief we go through and I'm having a hard time.

[avlady]

I have schitzophrenia and schitzoaffective, bi polar, depression, and am on 9 meds to control it.I am on meds for over 40 years now im 53 now. It took that long to find the right meds too. I have hallucinations and hear voices. still. I was in several accidents which i think caused my mental problems as i had head injuries too. I wish you luck

[nayxcore]

i want to slowly get off seroquel . they put me on for 3 years so far when will it end?

[martamiriam]

Originally Posted by nayxcore

i want to slowly get off seroquel . they put me on for 3 years so far when will it end?

Yikes that is awful..I was on it and it didn't work for me...I just have depression but they misdiagnosed me with delusional disorder because I believed that my schizophrenic boyfriend still loved me...he files an injunction against me to keep me away from him as he thought he would cause something bad to happen to me..anyway Ihope the seroquel works for you..it caused me to be drugged out and changed my personality completely...in a way it felt good not tohave the pain anymore but it wasn't me or for me..good luck...

[BeBrave483]

Hi I'm new. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2004 but never told why and I didn't really remember anything, so I always just denied it. Lately though I've been wondering and started looking at videos about it on youtube and it helped me remember some stuff and also realise that some things I did and do are actually symptoms. I thought it was just me! I'm glad I'm not alone here anymore. It does all add up and make sense now. I just got my meds increased yesterday due to paranoia, suicidal thoughts etc coming back. I hope having this forum will help as it wasn't talked about much on the site I used to be on. I hate all the stigma around the name schizophrenia, I'm still normal, no one would ever guess unless they could read my mind. My best friend says it's no big deal, I wish more people thought that way. If it helps anyone, my old psych said it was just a label so they know how to treat me. Well I look forward to maybe getting to know some of you

[martamiriam]

Originally Posted by BeBrave483

Hi I'm new. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2004 but never told why and I didn't really remember anything, so I always just denied it. Lately though I've been wondering and started looking at videos about it on youtube and it helped me remember some stuff and also realise that some things I did and do are actually symptoms. I thought it was just me! I'm glad I'm not alone here anymore. It does all add up and make sense now. I just got my meds increased yesterday due to paranoia, suicidal thoughts etc coming back. I hope having this forum will help as it wasn't talked about much on the site I used to be on. I hate all the stigma around the name schizophrenia, I'm still normal, no one would ever guess unless they could read my mind. My best friend says it's no big deal, I wish more people thought that way. If it helps anyone, my old psych said it was just a label so they know how to treat me. Well I look forward to maybe getting to know some of you

Good for you that you are getting or got help! Yes it is just a label....and you are ahead of the game by getting help..so many don't have the insight you have like my boyfriend and now we are not allowed to see each other..its a big mess and i am so sad not to see him but this didn't have to happen if only he would have gotten help like you are getting...keep on keeping on...

[martamiriam]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

Hi folks and welcome to our support group for people who have a schizophrenic or psychotic disorder and support for their loved ones and family.

If you're looking for helpful information resources on schizophrenia, you may want to check out our resource directory of reviewed schizophrenia and related resources online.

Welcome and I hope you find the support you're seeking here.

DocJohn

Thanks Doc John...i am having trouble in the chat rooms for emotional support as the moderator insists that I accept his "help" by telling me to move on when he knows nothing of the situation in total...it has been less than helpful..is there somewhere else I could get the support I need..? There is a legal tangle that is also keeping me apart from my schizo phrenic boyfriend that no one seems to get..l.its not about him not caring its about his paranoia and his delusions that he will be responsible for our demise if he is with us..it is so lonely and painful..he thinks he is protecting us when we are feeling abandoned and lonely for him...he has no one to help him as he lives alone and is alienated from his step son who has CP...thanks for any help...I cry all day every day as does my son as he was the DAD he never had and the husband I never had and I have had two...thanks for any help....

[martamiriam]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

Hi folks and welcome to our support group for people who have a schizophrenic or psychotic disorder and support for their loved ones and family.

If you're looking for helpful information resources on schizophrenia, you may want to check out our resource directory of reviewed schizophrenia and related resources online.

Welcome and I hope you find the support you're seeking here.

DocJohn

Is there a way to break a paranoid schizophrenic out of his delusion that being with me will cause me to die? He refuses to communicate with me or my son and very firmly believes that if we are together we will die just like his family did....I am not doing very well trying to cope with this....a psychiatrist said that contacting him too often willtend to make that delusion more fixed but i miss him terribly and cry all the time...the missing is a lot worse now than even a month ago...

[martamiriam]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

Hi folks and welcome to our support group for people who have a schizophrenic or psychotic disorder and support for their loved ones and family.

If you're looking for helpful information resources on schizophrenia, you may want to check out our resource directory of reviewed schizophrenia and related resources online.

Welcome and I hope you find the support you're seeking here.

DocJohn

Not sure how to deal with the terrible silence from my Paranoid schizophrenic boyfriend...I am pining away from him being gone....he keeps his emails unblocked but never responds...I don't feel like living anymore...I am 65 and he was the best thing that had ever happened to me but now he is gone....and I don't know if he will ever be back..he has or had the delusion that I would die if he was with me so he disappeared....I am so very very sad....his caring is so misguided and now we cannot see each other for another eight months...I don't know how to continue getting through the days...I miss him so much...every day is so very sad...I have nothing to live for or look forward to anymore...

[martamiriam]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

Hi folks and welcome to our support group for people who have a schizophrenic or psychotic disorder and support for their loved ones and family.

If you're looking for helpful information resources on schizophrenia, you may want to check out our resource directory of reviewed schizophrenia and related resources online.

Welcome and I hope you find the support you're seeking here.

DocJohn

How come my schizophrenic boyfriend dropped me when the voices got bad? The psyciatrist said not to email him much as this would make the delusions worse..we hung out daily for 6-7 months and now I never hear from him...I am so sad and confused..

[I really broken]

I don't know what to do anymore
I am finding it hard to function at a reasonable level
I'm at war with the voices in my head yelling me a little bit of everything. Can't sleep can't function as a dad I'm losing grip on reality and can't talk to any one

[readyread]

Hello. I'm glad to be here. Thank You for the forum. It's quite relaxing here. I'm a diagnosed Paranoid Schizophrenia. I'm ok, your ok. I wish there was a cure. I lived a very productive life before my illness. Marriage, kids, business, volunteered, and went to a university. I started a mental illness awareness blog. It has a lot of good stuff on schizophrenia. I'm still dealing with a lot o f stigma but I felt the need to share.

http://brigidaandschizophrenia.wordp...7/hello-world/

[martamiriam]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

Hi folks and welcome to our support group for people who have a schizophrenic or psychotic disorder and support for their loved ones and family.

If you're looking for helpful information resources on schizophrenia, you may want to check out our resource directory of reviewed schizophrenia and related resources online.

Welcome and I hope you find the support you're seeking here.

DocJohn

my boyfriend abruptly came out of psychosis and thinks we are still in a relationship a year and a half after he ditched me and heard voices telling him to kill people. We are moving to Israel and recently in court he tried to talk to me and the judge told me he could under no circimstances have anything to do with me or I could go to jail. This is a good judge. He had filed the IAH on me that was unwarraented as I was trying to see how he was doing and letting him know how I felt, sad, depressed etc but now he thinks we are still together and we are moving out of the country. How can I get help for him? I told the superior court he was hearing voices telling him to kill people is this enough to get him committed? He is threatening to kill people.

[martamiriam]

I would like to know that he is getting the help he needs because I don't want him to get killed or hurt others....he seemed so confused etc and wanted to be with me. My son said he actually wanted to work things out with me. NO WAY JOSE! NOT UNLESS HE GETS MEDS AND PERMANENT HELP!

[sognaz]

I pray that anyone struggling w/ something is blessed.

[pourquoipas]

My son has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Is there any help with energy healing, for someone who functions and has obviously got traumas from youth and didn't yet open up aboutnthem

[Wonder6Willow]

I was misdiagnosed for years with major depression and I come to find out I have a mild form of this and I am taking a generic Thorazine that helps a lot...I don't have hallucinations just flat emotions and disinterest in everything...do most people use therapy or meds or both or what...I am very confused right now