I hear insulting voices in my head. It is tough. I hear people calling me
poof, mong, creep, gay and wierdo. Although I am not gay. It is really
annoying hearing these insults from random people. I have to take
medication to stop the voices. But they are not stopped totally. I will
have to take meds for the rest of my life. I do not think i could cope
without the medication.
Many "psychiatrists" are probably in it to boost their own egos and
actually worsen the condition of their patients - unknowingly.
To all the quacks out there - Listen to this doctor ! He gets straight to
the point. Can you Believe all the mumbo-jumbo some "psychiatrists" come up
with - making the patient feel small by first stating "you will never be
free of this disease". Then they go on babbling on a much higher level like
an A-grade University professor making the patient feel like this is VERY
VERY hard, i will never bee free. Oh the so called "intelligent" doctors
supposed to help people...
Acting is beleiving..
the secret to stopping schiziphrenia is beleif ...the power of belief
...because the schizophrenic patents beleive that negative things are
happening to themselves or about them and around them. that is illogical
and because illogical need psychotherapy to correct the power of beleifsand
reasoning of the shizoprhrenic individual: ...though illogical the
shizophrenic simply beleve they have reasoning to being paraniod,
depressed. me personally when i was diagnosed with shizophrenia i had
voices and bad dreams. but when i challenged my own reasoning about that
which made me upset i began to figure out for myself that it was nothing to
fear or be depressed about and to do it would be illogical.
the secret to stopping schiziphrenia is beleif ...the power of belief
...because the schizophrenic patents beleive that negative things are
happening to themselves or about them and around them. that is illogical
and because illogical need psychotherapy to correct the power of beleifsand
reasoning of the shizoprhrenic individual: ...though illogical the
shizophrenic simply beleve they have reasoning to being paraniod,
depressed. me personally when i was diagnosed with shizophrenia i had
voices and bad dreams. but when i challenged my own reasoning about that
which made me upset i began to figure out for myself that it was nothing to
fear or be depressed about and to do it would be illogical.
there are tons of cases for comparison. robert whitaker and peter breggin
talk about this a lot. the drugged people lived 25 years less on average...
Well, that's just it. No one can tell what is causing what as there are few
cases of severe mental illness in which the patient survived long term but
never took any medications. There would have to be many such confirmed
cases for any study to be of any value. It is impossible to tell what is
going on. There is no question that the meds cause changes in the brain.
hmm, good short-term care......suicide prevention.....not in the research
i've seen, nor in my personal experience. robert whitaker's "anatomy of an
epidemic" rebuts that. psychiatry is good at making episodic problems
chronic. but i do agree that long-term care is pretty poor.
My view of mental illness is that a lot of it starts as a psychological
problem with perhaps a genetic predisposition, and as time goes on, one
gets older and life gets more stressful, the psychological illness becomes
a physical one with a diseased brain. I am convinced there is a physical
side to serious mental illness, but it is far too complex for the workings
of it to be teased out yet, and maybe it never will be. Drugs alone are a
very crude, shoot from the hip approach to the problem.
If it were up to me, everyone would get meds if they wanted them,
transcranial magnetic stimulation if they wanted it, psychotherapy if they
wanted it, counseling on and help with nutrition and exercise if they
wanted it and perhaps, who knows in future? Perhaps there will be genetic
cures or something involving nanotechnology. But unfortunately for now, the
drugs are the easiest and most profitable thing for the whole system.
"I hadn't had anything to do with street drugs for about 4 years now and was warned that involvement with them or alcohol would cause a worsening of the symptoms."
Garry
"In 2003 I went to Everest for the first time and trekked to base camp. It was symbolic of my own journey with schizophrenia and conquering my own mountains."
Stuart
"I had gradual onset schizophrenia but a bad LSD trip is what triggered my psychosis. I had smoked pot daily for my last two years of high school, drank every weekend and occasionally took acid."
Nick
"I have to scrutinize my every thought, every attitude, every emotion, everything, and ask, ‘Is this real?’"
Yeon Kim
"It‘s so weird waking up and not really knowing where I am, seeing things that aren’t really there, and hearing things that are in my head but aren’t in front of me or connected to electronic."
Karin
"I fear sleep because my dreams have become too lucid and it becomes hard to know what reality is. Only slowly I remembered the strange things. And I realized that all was fantasy."
Joey
"I was working on my computer and then I heard someone talking to me. She whispered, "Hey... how's it going tonight?" And she hasn't left since."
Anonymous
"My doctor encourages me to get a part time job. I enjoy cooking so I am thinking about getting a job as a cook."
Jason
"I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in my early twenties. I have a university degree, I am self employed as a writer, and artist and engaged to a girl I met at uni. I live independently."
David
"There can be life after schizophrenia: in my own case, nearly thirty years of a very satisfying and rewarding, though not always easy, existence."
Christine
"I was so tired and didn't feel I had much fight left in me, but I knew I had to keep going."
Sophie
"Truth be, many days the only face to face I have with anyone is the checkout clerk, but even that is of value to me."
Jay
"I dont wanna be popular would just love to be able to interact socially and have a good friend or two."
Anonymous
"I continued with my exercise and voluntary work and the weight just came off so quick... it was unbelievable; I looked and felt great. I was no longer sedated and full of hope! I was ALIVE again and I thought that was it."
David
"All is NOT lost. Hope and survival live within your strength to follow the one path that might work for you!"
Tony
"I had just received my college degree in English when I was diagnosed with schizophrenia eighteen years ago. For a long time, I couldn’t concentrate enough to read. But with my new medication, I can read again. I play the viola and love the Bach cello sui"
Elizabeth
"Others believe that schizophrenics never recover from their illness—that they remain deluded for the rest of their life. How untrue. The recovery rates are getting better all the time."
Zack
"What disappoints us a little is that insecurity toward our son, that we almost have to invite them to get in contact, that we have to say: Why don’t you give him a call some time? …And then we hear ‘What should we talk about with him, which questions shal"
Anna
"I had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when I learned that I was pregnant. When my mother told our neighbors that I was pregnant, they asked: ‘When is the abortion going to take place?’ That is stigma, a big stigma. My daughter is now six years old."
Mary
"My illness has been abated, I am productive again, and I plan on having a normal existence for the rest of my life."
Kurt
"I kept hearing the neighbours banging on the walls trying to play on my nerves (or so I thought). My response was to run not just out of the house, but to get as far away as possible"
Mark
"Nobody takes you aside at school and says, "Look you might get a mental illness!""
Mark
"My mom told me she had thought something was wrong with me when I was in high school but she didn't know what it was"
Nick
"I DID NOT have any religious delusions, I did not have delusions about aliens, the FBI, the CIA, or about cameras following me or people plotting against me, or microchips planted in me"
Nick
"I was afraid I would go stark, screaming mad and lose control and not be aware of anything around me"
Nick
"You might feel so embarrassed and worried what people might think or say, but the most important thing is to talk"
Bethany
"My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy."
Elyn
"Creative people, like those with psychotic illnesses, tend to see the world differently to most. It's like looking at a shattered mirror."
Mark
"My greatest fear is this brain of mine….The worst thing imaginable is to be terrified of one’s own mind, the very matter that controls all that we are and all that we do and feel."
M. Torrey
"The most of people would want a friend to tell them if they were diagnosed with schizophrenia, but only a few persons say they would tell friends if they themselves were diagnosed."
Marlena
"You may learn something about yourself as you learn about a family member's mental disorder."
Anonymous
"Don't forget your sense of humor!"
Ian
"I think that mental illnesses as Schizophrenia, are a part of the varied fabric of life."
Bill
"Recognizing that a person has different capabilities than you, should not mean that you expect nothing of them."
Marilyn
"It is as hard for the individual to accept the disorder as it is for other family members."
Dan
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