i need a personal reflection on schizophrenia?

Question

a little help.. cant come up with anything..

Answer 1

I'm not schizophrenic but I used to work as a R.N. on a psych unit for many years. Try to imagine yourself, just as you are now. Then imagine that because of a malfunction of the chemical regulating system in your brain that your mind stopped working as well as it does now.

You're the same you, but now you have a lot of trouble understanding things. You can no longer think logically so as to make good decisions for your life. You have delusions that you believe are real, that people are out to kill you.

You can't trust anyone, not because of their behavior but because certain chemical levels in your brain are either too high or too low. Imagine that you came down with schizophrenia when you were 20 y/o.

Imagine that you think there is nothing wrong with you but that the problem is with all the other people in the world.

If you can imagine what it would feel like to have all these things be true about you, then you might have a small idea of what it feels like to be a person who has schizophrenia.

If you sense some anger in my answer, it's not directed towards you. I'm angry at the stupid liberal do-gooders that know nothing about mental illness but have caused the government policies to cause mentally ill people more problems and make their lives harder.

In Minnesota, they have closed most of the state hospitals for the mentally ill because they thought that people would do better in residential treatment centers.

This was not true for most of the patients and, anyway, they never bothered to make sure that the legislature voted money to build residential treatment centers.

So now, those people who used to be safe, warm, and wellfed; are now homeless people, hungry, and vulnerable to people who would take advantage of them.

I'm sorry. This is probably much more than you wanted to know. I hope something I have written has helped you.

Answer 2

jointly as the themes you element out are extreme concerns of their own, i do no longer evaluate that any of them, by way of definition, could be formally recognized as probability aspects or alerts of pending schizophrenia. Having reported that, many persons with schizophrenia do chain-smoke and undergo from nervousness, although additionally they do distinctive concerns, corresponding to eating water for representation, which following your chum's person-friendly experience places them at merely as plenty probability as you're. listening to voices, having delusions or unreasonable paranoia are the agreed upon warning alerts of understand-how schizophrenia, although given the state of tips of schizophrenia at cutting-edge, and absent those varieties of signs and indications, there could be presently no technique to completely look at who gets schizophrenia and who won't. .

Answer 3

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Answer 4

My name is Alan.In 1997 I became homeless due to massive flooding.I took the only job that would take me, as a life skills trainer for the mentally handicapped. I was scared to death of these people. They talked to themselves, yelled at people who weren't there . Basicly scared me silly. then it happened with out a ride home one night I called my brother for a lift. He didnot know I worked for a care facility. I did not know he was schizophrenic, As he started to enter our parking area I saw him slam on his breaks reverse his truck and speed away. I was shocked to see him leave, pissed off for having to walk, I began to calm down as I walked, the farther I got the more I realized what had happened. It took me several days to locate my brother and several more to regain his trust.he had believed I had set a trap for him and was scared to death I was triing to have him commited.A very rocky road was traveled for the both of us for the next several weeks,the voices my brother heard were angry, and mean they told him he had commited murder and they were there to seak revenge. as you could guess I love my brother very much and would do anything to help him he demanded that I leave for I was in danger of the demeons revenge for if they could not get my brother they surely would get me. I told my brother that even though I could not hear the threats he heard the fear it caused him to experiance, the panic of being caught in the open defenceless, all of this could be real for what I new.I could be the one that had the medical problem by not being able to hear what he so clearly could. I then told my brother that if they are coming for him, they would have to go through me.We sat back to back, on the tallest hill in our town, both heavely armed,waiting for our destiny to unfold.The night was very scarey animal sounds we both heared caused several years to be taken off each of our lives, yet I convinced him,that if by day light the ambush we both expected didn't happen, maybe we should seek the help of a doctor to determine which of us was the one insane, and which was the hero. he is doing better now but we still have our unintended detours every now and then. but as I now know, it is not his or my fault,they may or not be real,all I know my brother will have my back as I will have his. Every day is a hurdle some high some low, we know longer set sights on goals without reach, for with family support and under standing every goal is obtainable. good luck, Alan

Answer 5

Look in a mirror.

Answer 6

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