May I have some personal stories of your experience with someone with schizophrenia?

Question

Anything crazy that happened, any kind of schizophrenia... be sure to name it.

Answer 1

My father was diagnosed as schizophrenic. He was violent at times, and wildly inconsistent most of the time. But most of what I can tell you is that once he was put in a state mental hospital, he never again came out except to escape, and was always sent back by the authorities as soon as he was caught, usually trying to sign up with the Merchant Marines Union.

Much of my family life was made miserable by his terrible temper, his lack of a sense of responsibility, his complete financial madness. He taught my sister and I to hide behind the couch and pretend no one was home if a bill collector (defined as anyone we did not already know) came to the door. He was constantly buying new cars and having them repossessed. We survived because his parents bailed him out when things got too tight. We lived with them off and on until they both died, then lived in the house Daddy inherited from them until he ended up losing it for not keeping up the mortgage.

He abused my sister sexually and tried it with me, but I threatened to kill him if he tried, and he believed me.

It's no fun living with an uncontrolled schizophrenic. Nowadays I understand lithium makes many such people very easy to live with, but in those days all they had was Thorazine and shock treatment.

Answer 2

I was in the military at age 19 when I was first diagnosed with schizophrenia. At first it was a hellish experiance because no one belived that I was ill, instead they thought that I was on some sort of drugs and they were going to throw me in federal prison for maligering which basically means I was faking it to get out of my obligation as a soldier. Fortunately my father came down to the base and got things setteled so that I could be treated properly and be sent home. This was four years ago and I have had only a few hospitalizations. Also I am now going to Job Corps and am studying to become a machinest. Just know this that everyone who has schizophrenia has a different story and that mine is probably the exception not the rule so be supportive of persons who are affected by this disorder.

Answer 3

I am a near life long DDD patient. This term means Dopamine Dysfunction Disorder which a group of British psychiatrists have proposed to use to replace the label "schizophrenia." This label has no scientific meaning and its continued use only serves to label those with a probable organic disorder of their neurochemistry as "weird'. Even mental health professionals still "trot out" their DDD patients so everyone can laugh at them in mental health institutions. For this reason I'm not going to tell you my story. A good one already told is the book "I never promised you a rose garden" by Joanne Greenberg.

Answer 4

When I meet my friend Rick and I found out that he was schizophrenic I must admit I was a little afraid but Rick kept taking his med's as prescribed and he read anything he could get his hands ahold of on the subject. He went into counseling as well. He live a pretty normal life. When he felt he was hearing voices again he would tell me and his other friends and his Dr. would either change or up his med's. Rich died of a heart attack 6 years ago and we all miss him very much. So if a person really takes responsibility and accepts the diagnoses and takes the medication the Dr. prescribes and inters into counseling they can live almost normal lives.

Answer 5

I am a psychiatrist, so naturally I see patients with schizophrenia almost every day. I tend to remember patients with paranoid schizophrenia in particular, because they usually have systematized delusions which can make up a whole story. One of my patients complained that an organization had implanted cameras every where to spy on him. He said he knew so many secret that the world`s presidents wanted to prevent him from writing them in a book.

Answer 6

I totally sympathize with ppl afflicted with this disorder. A good friend of mine has it and has lived a pretty successful life with it. Unfortunately it gets pretty bad for her sometimes and she is sometimes convinced that someone put an earpiece in her ear and that that is where the voices are coming from. I also have an aunt who had episodes of paranoia and heard voices that her doctor said was brought on because she had stopped eating due to OCD at a stressful time in her life. She takes a minimal dose of Risperadol and is much better now.,

Answer 7

is this severe? Schizophrenia is a psychological sickness and has no longer something to do with daemons or 'the devil'. Its a bad sickness yet no one is 'cursed' or has 'sinned'. if so why do harmless toddlers and human beings be afflicted by it. Homosexuality isn't a sin in any respect. and that i'm livid religions nevertheless bloody criticise it. i've got been under the impression of alcohol, i've got had intercourse till now marriage, i'm living single with my companion, i've got had a psychological difficulty myself. yet i'm no longer possessed or a 'lost soul' . in case you have faith in stuff like that, its gonna make you pass loopy heavily. placed down the bible. calm down, take a deep breath and picture fact. you do no longer might desire to be exorcised. you may desire to take a wreck. Your no longer likely to hell. yet while your shop thinking your possessed you will deliver your self nuts. And- Dillon- I awaken with my melancholy long previous after cuddling and speaking to my family members. regardless of you have faith in will make you happy . And the recommendations is produced from an exceedingly complicated equipment, of which we basically use a small share, who knows what the different section is able to , many stuff can pass incorrect contained in the recommendations......yet heavily are not getting worked up approximately daemons, its no longer healthful. confident you may have hallucinations too, and delusions, exceedingly in the adventure that your very sick, mentally or bodily. as an occasion. My companion fought contained in the conflict in Afgan, he got here returned listening to gunshots and firing , those gunshots weren't genuine yet to him they sounded so genuine and worried him alot. in line with threat your dad is feeling the comparable..Google the human recommendations and examine up approximately it, ask docs, confer with all of us till now you bounce to a daemon please. haha Im needless to say a Satanist to that guy below yet i do no longer supply a damn.I even have seen and felt fact and the place became into God then? AND apparently i'm no longer entitled to an opinion in accordance to Christianity lol.

Answer 8

You can read books on line by those who did suicide and know there were Schizo. We cannot reveal the world of Psychosis to an amateur. This is a life struggle for some against the forces of evil in their social group of winner-players . You too make believe suicide is just punishment from friends who didn't learn the secrets.

Answer 9

Schizophrenia:
My Son-in-law had it when he was alive and the one thing I remember well;
I was at his and my daughters apartment visiting with them and I looked around and saw he wasn't in the apartment...(or so we thought)
Well my daughter and I was talking and sitting on the couch and I heard a noise in the kitchen closet and asked my daughter what it was....
She said she didn't know because no one else was in the apartment.....I continued to hear something, she just shrugged it off and told me it was probably the neighbors....I got up and searched the apartment and didn't see any one, so went back and sat on the couch and continued our conversation....
Then the kitchen closet opened up and out walked my Son-in-law!
I asked him what he was doing in the closet and he told me he was visiting his Mom and family in Chicago....We were in Kansas!

Answer 10

My dad's girlfriend has schizophrenia. She is a bald crack whore with a neck brace. She called me a dirty little tramp because I'm from his previous relationship so I exploded all her pants and her sex toys. I also put a sign on her neck brace that said "f*ck me (every body else has)"