Schizophrenia - How it Feels

Woman with schizophrenia tells how it feels to have this illness. This is an excerpt from an episode of Mental Health Matters, a program about mental health. The full length 30 minute show can be watched at http://www.mpuuc.org/mentalhealth/mentalTVschizophrenia.html.

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[movadoband]

@rainbowaon a shaman usually doesn't claim to be a shaman either....once you speak with them you will just know....they say the difference between a psychotic and a mystic is that the mystic knows who 'not' to talk to ;)

[BobDole3005]

you can tell a lifetime of stress and anxiety has aged her

[AngelKitzis]

@TheAmazingTubester Do you mind if I ask you what medication you were on? I can't keep up with what med is for which of my conditions, but since I was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, I've taken lamictal, risperidal, celexa, lithium and thorazine. So far, none are workinG> It's really hard to tell sometimes, because I have MPD as well. I neer know if it's schizo or mpd when i think i'm someone else, become someone else. i'm scared to live like this.

[soullify3]

somebody can put in subtitles in spanish ? it would be more complete.

One question... anyone has a familiar with Schizophrenia ? please contact me

[TheAmazingTubester]

@reed00112 good point, because people with schizophrenia disorders are humans just like everyone else.

[TheAmazingTubester]

@ZTalks26 I think you're right about understanding, and I also think there should be more of a "better than we thought" outlook on people who have it I was diagnosed with early onset and I was nowhere near the stereotypical children who have schizophrenia.

[TheAmazingTubester]

schizoaffective is from the schizophrenia spectrum. It is not as severe, but I have schizoaffective and medication did get rid of those symptoms I had as a teen; now I've been in remission for about four years and I'm only twenty-three. They first diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia, but the medication was so effective that I went into long-term remission and haven't relapsed since I was 17. I'm not sure about the bias against meds, they are overprecribed I think, but it really helped me.

[aleon1018]

I've had memories of people saying things they then claimed they never said. I've also recalled having said things I wasn't even thinking or knew. It seems as if more like possession than mental illness. I've also had missing time events of an hour or even more as had others in the room or location. There was even memories of evidence left in the room or electrical activity such as damage to wires and a brown out. That was in an outpatient facility. One patient walked out and refused to return.

[ghettokhanacademy]

does haloperidol help?

[HamidBa]

@210482fmj Paul Eugen Bleuler invented the term

[210482fmj]

Who invented this name scizophrenia anyway? I question whether the theories are even correct and that is all it is anyway is sombodies theory on a condition defined by symptoms that all human beings face at some point even if not all the time but occasionally. Maybe their theory is wrong.

[ZTalks26]

Medication does not cure the source of the problem. I barely stops the symptomes in a non natural way. I believe that such "illnesses" can be cured only through understanding from the concerned person of their condition, and the understanding and support of her relatives and friends.