am i a schizophrenic? some times i get weird thoughts and imaginations?

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geyamala
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asked guernica told me go america ambushed by b for not giving meaning for meaning i told y domnius skull ease so not beautiful when i painted dali with brush of stream of consciousness no joyce is rejoicing? realism,sir,sirrealism.

in the imagination of poets, especially surrealists and dadaists, oxen would fly, furniture sings.peacocks sing and nightingales dance. if i don't give this explanation, some people would jump into conclusions that i shall have to be admitted in a home

thanks for the people who explained about schizophrenia. but i want to make clear one point here. not to label people as schizo, psycho . the poets and philosophers live in a world of imaginations.

here guernica means spanish civil war. america, ambushed by b means iraq civil war, dali, one of the greatest surrealist, rejoice, joyce, mean james joyce. this is called stream of consciousness.my advise to the participants is before answering questions in mental health, to have a cursory look of questions and answers of the asker and come to a conclusion.

Answer 1

Yes, but surreal or dada? That is the question that breaks them both, as to analyze the surreal makes it bland, and to discus the dadaist makes it fall apart.

What is schizophrenia? As long as it doesn't impair you it's just a state of mind. Nothing more.

Answer 2

How are we to distinguish those with mental illness from those with creative ideas? That seems to be the question. In the past thirty years it has been the custom of people in the United States not to admit people for any form of mental illness unless they present a harm to themselves or others. No one should be placed in an institution unless they are one of those things. Institutions are not very nice, no matter how good they look. Someone is being placed in the power of someone else.
Many people are treated with anti-psychotic medication. Some people I know have reported good effects and one has become quite successful. Some have not fared so well. The one who has also receives counseling. She may not follow everything, and why should she, but she weighs the counselor's opinion and has developed a trusting relationship.
Having strange thoughts are not so much a sign of schizophrenia as acting on those thoughts. If you can't tell your own thoughts from reality or your own thoughts lead to bad judgments, consider psychoactive medication. If they are fantasies like a Joyce novel, with many free associations, or a Dali painting that challenges your sense of reality and forces you out of the mundane, don't worry; the key is acting on your thoughts. If telling your thoughts to other people is a problem, learn to keep your mouth closed. It's a good skill.

Answer 3

Diagnosis is based on the self-reported experiences of the person as well as abnormalities in behavior reported by family members, friends or co-workers, followed by secondary signs observed by a psychiatrist, social worker, clinical psychologist or other clinician in a clinical assessment. There is a list of criteria that must be met for someone to be so diagnosed. These depend on both the presence and duration of certain signs and symptoms.

The mainstay of treatment for schizophrenia is an antipsychotic medication.These provide symptomatic relief from the positive symptoms of psychosis. Most medications take around 7–14 days to have an antipsychotic effect but indirect symptomatic relief may occur immediately as insomnia and agitation are addressed by nonspecific sedative effects or adjunctive benzodiazepine prescription.

The concept of a cure as such remains controversial, as there is no consensus on the definition, although some criteria for the remission of symptoms have recently been suggested.The effectiveness of schizophrenia treatment is often assessed using standardized methods, one of the most common being the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS).As with many chronic illnesses, aiming for management of symptoms and improving function is more achievable than a cure. Treatment was revolutionized in the mid 1950s with the development and introduction of chlorpromazine.

Answer 4

No. If you think weird you are not necessarily schizophrenic unless you act on those thoughts in a detrimental way. To me what constitutes schizophrenia is thoughts that are not your own. The little thought voice that you normally think with is not a "voice" that can be considered an hallucination. The "voice or "voices" (at times there may be a whole chorus of "voices") that constitute a schizophrenic hallucination are distinctly "other"; that is there is no mistaking that they are not you as they come not at your will but most often as a surprise or even contrary to your will. They are often hostile or critical; many times deceptive.

What constitutes a "delusion" is the explanations one comes up with (often bizarre and untrue but at the moment the only explanation one can come up with) to explain these unwanted Voices and visions to yourself and others. One is so often so preoccupied with thinking about the "voices" and their meaning they become introverted and withdrawn.

Unless these conditions are apparent , no I don't think you are schizophrenic.