If you have familiarity with schizophrenia, what is your impression of the disease?

Question

I am curious as to how people view the disease and persons that have that diagnosis.

Answer 1

A professional told me that people often view schizophrenia and persons that have it in the light of the worst-case scenarios presented in media reports in the news.

Answer 2

I am familiar with the condition having been diagnosed as Schizophrenia Paranoid (DDD) over 40 years ago. I have been under the care of a psychiatrist all of this time. I have had visual and auditory hallucinations that sometimes were so violent they drove me to my knees. I have been on some kind of neuroleptic medication all this time and was able to work in my profession for 15 or more years. I also attended 2 universities to keep up with my work.

DDD stands for Dopamine Dysfunction Disorder which is a designation suggested for the condition to replace the label schizophrenia which is scientifically meaning less and merely serves to cancel the life of the person to whom it is affixed. This is due to the lingering public prejudice for the people who have been diagnosed as "Schizophrenic."

I view the disease as a physical damage to the brain from causes unknown which medications help the natural repair functions of the brain heal. How people view me I don't know but my family loves me.

Answer 3

The term "schizophrenia" is a label given to several mental conditions. Not all schizoprenics hear voices, as erroneously mentioned above, and there's a lot of stigma surrounding the illness. Also, It's not the same as multiple personality disorder as many people think.

I myself was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia several years ago (I'm 23). I stopped speaking for a year, and spent most of my time staring into space or walking in circles. I was "empty" and emotionless (except for being very depressed sometimes, but mostly I was filled with apathy). I took drugs for many years, which I've now stopped. It's not easy, my brain is a pile of useless goo from both the illness and medication (oh memory, where have you gone?) but I'm surviving and nearly have a degree in genetics so I'll soon be able to get a job.

My impression of schizophrenia is two words or less? It sucks.

Answer 4

It's shattering, it makes a person slowly loose them self more and more and theres no heading back, it destroys and torments people I have seen many doctors claim it is the worse of all mental illnesses which I can understand. I have had it my whole life and it has made the world a very terrifying place to be Sometimes there is good that comes out of it sometimes there are people who can just shine an accept anything in life sadly not enough people are as strong as them. I guess it's like having a person wrapped up in bubble wrap, you cant see them but you know they're in there somewhere and time slowly lets the disease take over unless treated.
It's a very scary place being a paranoid schizophrenic

Answer 5

They always hear voices, that is why they always talking to themselves. When you hear voices talking to you but nobody is around, that will make you crazy.