Would you be scared of a person who had schizophrenia?

Question

It is not multiple, split or double personalities, but a disorder which affect thought, feeling, movement or action. A thought disorder in other words

Answer 1

I am a schizophrenic paranoid. I am afraid of the stigma associated with the label schizophrenia. I have been in hospitals and group homes with schizophrenics for over 40 years and never met a violent one. Most people who suffer from it are too preoccupied with trying to figure out what has gone wrong with their minds and the world to be violent.

I read your other question and if you are schizophrenic you should be able to get some compensation for the disorder; it depends on the state and the circumstances. But do keep trying to overcome the stress of working as to be unemployed and unoccupied is to bring on more chance of further symptoms. Keep taking your med's!

Good luck in your job, Good mental health, peace and love!

Answer 2

my mom has schizophrenia and its a hard thing to deal with.. she's really irritable, like i can never go out places with her because she'll start trouble or get annoyed easily with someone or just sayy careless words without even thinking if it's wrong or not. She also hulcinates things and creates scenarios that aren't true. Like if someone told her "your daughter has been coming late to school, she needs to catch up in her work." she'll later go back to me and say "why haven't you been going to school and failing in your classes?" conversating with her is really weird too.. she tends to make up things or her words don't make quite sense. She always uses the words "that right there" or "this right here" a lot in her sentences. She paces around a lot and my mom also has seizures. So, there's a lot of things going on in her head. But anyway, I'm suffering from severe depression, I hullcinate most times and I don't get enough sleep. I also get very bipolar... I had an incident yesterday, but I've heard schizophrenia is hereditary. So there's chances that the carrier can pass it along to their child or some sort of mental illness. With the voice hearing.. I'm going through that now. Day before yesterday I heard voices. It's like loud for 1 second, then it fades and gets quiet. It like sudden outburst of someone talking for 2-3 seconds. I don't like that feeling because I hear it everytime I lay down about to go to sleep. I'm actually struggling to go to school. I haven't been to school in 2 months. I'm not on any meds. I'm actually trying to get help from my friends and my boyfriend. The first thing I need to take care is the sleeping. I can't say you have schizophrenia, I'm hoping you don't, but you sound really stressed out. This is all I can tell you about schizophrenia.

Answer 3

People with untreated schizophrenia can have distressing thoughts or can see or hear things that other people can't. A person with untreated schizophrenia may lead a chaotic life, which can be unsettling to people who are close to them.

the vast majority of people with schizophrenia are not dangerous to other people in any way. A very small minority of people with schizophrenia commit violent crimes... but so do people without schizophrenia (most people in prisons do not have schizophrenia)...this small minority of sufferers who are dangerous are treated in secure hospitals, so any sufferer that you might encounter in your life will be a relatively healthy and safe person to know.
Many sufferers who have their Schizophrenia treated can lead normal lives, and if u met them, you wouldn't know that they had an illness unless they told you.

Answer 4

My boyfriends is schizophrenic but I've never been scared of him. I've been scared for him and his condition but I know he would never hurt me. I've only known him to be violent once and that was to protect him self just as anyone would do in the situation. In only scared for him if he have a bad day and his antidepressants aren't working, and that's only because he was low self esteem on these days. I'm no expert, just telling you for exspirance that the only schizophrenic I know is the kindest and most compassionate guy I know.

Answer 5

my mother has it, and let me tell you as much as you want to love this person and feel comfortable around them it is a roller coaster. I never lived with her after she was diagnosed but I would go visit her. Medicine if not taken right can make them go into fits. Its normal to feel scared around something you really cant understand..... and I dont care who you are if you dont have it you dont understand it. I love my mother but I never slept fully at night being around her. Its complicated, it depends on the diagnosis. My mom is paranoid schizo. so she really cant take care of anything besides her self. Being a mother myself now I do get worried about her ever coming to stay with me and my kids. She was the best mother she could be, but it is scarey when you dont know much besides the bad things you hear. medicine will help but it takes awhile to find the right stuff, and then make sure they take their meds. good luck.

Answer 6

It is a frightening disorder, to have or to have to deal with from an relative or aquaintance.

It is the element of control, the fact that schizphrenia patients can't always control their impluses, you can't feel 100% safe.

Answer 7

No because I have read some books of other's personal experiences having the disease, and I sympathize with a better understanding.

Answer 8

Only if they were not taking their medication. When that person is off their medication, then all rational thinking has gone out the window.

Answer 9

Cautious.

Answer 10

Not necessarily.. some people are more prone to just hallucinations rather than violence or bizarre behavior, but I would rather spend my time elsewhere.