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When it first started i felt different from everyone and it was really hard trying to cope with it as an elementary school kid. I thought i was weird and nobody will understand. The voices weren't making it any better either, I had to try so hard not letting them talk durring class, and at home i had to make it look like i was talking on the phone so that my perents wouldn't find out. The more i hid this from everyone the more they got worse. Also whenever they said anything out loud, it was always just be negative like, "Shut up! Go die!". Sometimes there would be power struggles with my body too, when they wanted to talk and i wouldn't let them they'd hit me. But i never lost to them once, i'm always under control.
I told my closest friends about it, i was scared at first, but i could always rely on them for advice. And when i told them they understood and accepted me. When that happened i felt so relieved, and they said to me, "Why dont you just accept them? if thats who you are then let them be". And that's what I did, i tried to accept them and it took 3 long years for them to actually talk to me in conversations, and now they don't hit me anymore. They're still a hand full everynow and then, but its nothing to hard for me to handle. I want to develop my relationship with them further if it's possible, i don't want to shun them, also i don't want to see a doctor either. I've heard of people coming to trems with their own voices in their heads and understanding them. I think trying to understand them and having some sort of mutual respect for eachother is way better then prescripted medicine. Please respond if you have any comments or advice for me. Also I would like to hear from anybody's point of view on wheather or not it's better for me to have mutual respect for the voices or just take medication, even though im still on the "mutual respect" side other then the "medication" side.View Thread
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but that's not my issue.
On two EEGs i've had they showed an "abnormal Z brainwave".
I have no idea what this is, and can find nothing on the net about it.
So, i guess my question is, does anybody have any clue what this is?View Thread
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With this she loses all jobs she gets because she is paranoid, every boss is out to get her. And every friend or family member she has bashed and then at some point she talks them up and how great they are.
Then is cant stop talking. When I was a kid I just put up with it but she makes no sense. She will have the most detailed conversations where she goes into what the other person said back to her and then she rambles on to another topic. To say anything while she is talking she gets upset, yet she just keeps going. So she doesnt have any friends and people stay away from her.
She also changes what you say and tries to convience you said things you didnt.
Also she believes she doesnt talk a lot and that she has no problems. She thinks its everyone else. She will be happy for awhile then it all sparks and changes over to like a jekl and hyde type.
My grandma has helped her out a lot and it is wearing on her. I moved out years ago and my sister just moved out so now she is completely alone. But we all have been so stressed by her but want the best for her.
She just got mentally evluated and apparently they said she doesnt have any disorder, she is just very aggressive and defensive. But I do believe it, i think they didnt see enough.
What I CAN Be done about her? I wish a bunch of experts could watch her and give opinions.
This week something snapped and with her and gone farther then it has. She had been asking for cigerette money from my sister and then expected that even though I helped her wwith a bill that because I didnt pay it all off even though I said I could only afford so much that then I should buy her some cigerrettes. So after that she told me I couldnt have my mail sent there and I had to pick it up. Which she called me at the middle of my work shift and I told her because I was working over time for awhile I wouldnt make it out there for a while (I just didnt want to deal with her drama ).. So she then ended up walking in windy cold weather to my apartment, probably 8 miles away to give me paper work and then ran off when I asked her why she is acting this way..
I am afraid she might do something she will regret, but I also think it might just be for attention. Maybe she is some type of drug? I know she used to long time ago. I really dont what can be done so that she is more rational.View Thread
So my daughter's issues started with having to check everything before bed. Check every lock on every window. Check the door is locked. Look in the closet. Look under the bed. Double check everything. Very compulsive and she would check things that no one could be in. For example she would check her drawers, etc. Open anything that had a lid. She has always been someone who is very scared. She cannot watch a scary movie and if she does we are normally dealing with the issue of her being scared every night. This has been going on for a few years now. But that has been the extent of it. Like I said I think my wife is an enabler. I would tell my daughter to go back to her room and go to bed. There is nothing wrong. My wife would always respond to her., Go in and console her etc.
Well last night my wife was up with my daughter to 3am because even with my wife in the room. She was hearing noises in the dark. Seeing things moving. Hearing growling. Etc. She doesn't have these sort of things go on in the day. It is like she is a little kid afraid of the boogie man but to the extreme.
Unfortunately I don't have patience for my wife's anxiety issues and really none for my daughter's either, but should I be concerned. Is this some sort of beginning schizophrenia? I'm pretty sure we are going to have her go see someone but I worry about the labeling.
Any advice? Any similarities or articles that you could point me to.
Concerned but frustrated father.View Thread
i recently read briefly that marijuana can cause psychosis, is this true? or is this mis-information being put out by the media? i tried marijuana for the first time over the weekend but i had trouble inhaling any smoke to give me any high. i didn't have a bong, i didn't have any papers or filters, but i did have foil, however i still had trouble. i also didn't know how to roll a joint to smoke it... whether there was any one way of doing it. actually i did inhale a bit of smoke but it was mixed with burnt newspaper however i didn't experience much of a high at all, i certainly had no hallucinations. it was marijuana leaves and they were very dry but now i'm sitting here with a strange feeling in my head, it is not pain. it is not pain but i don't like it and i want it to stop, could this have something to do with the attempted marijuana use? i put the dried marijuana leaves in a bowl and burnt most of it but they did not send off much smoke to inhale at all. when i thought i was experiencing a small high, i felt a wave of heat come over my brain and also a wave of coldness.
someone once told me that marijuana can change the world view of someone as if using the drug is like an education, is this true or is marijuana use being used to cover something else up that is really going on in the mind?
i think the webmd website needs more sections in their discussion communities.View Thread
I am two years younger than him, currently 21, and I have no symptoms of schizophrenia. But, of course, it worries me from time to time that it could happen. I'm a woman, and I've heard that women develop the illness later on average than men. Because of his case, I avoid drugs for the most part. I know that, being his sibling, my risk is higher.
I have no history of mental illness myself, and I'm healthy, but is there anything I can do to limit my risk?View Thread
Recently i took a test to see if i have it or not and scored a 21 on it. The things i see are shadowy figures apparitions of small animalistic creatures, voices of close family friends and of those i dont know. and small black dots that shine, the counter part to the black dots are dots that are the same size but look like a minniture sun..All of this has happened before but has increased in frequency over the past Two years or so.View Thread
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200633% (2)
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2009 and Above33% (2)
2002. I was really going crazy thinking ppl was stairing at me and laughing. Thinking ppl was following me all the time. I stopped taking my all my meds and ended up in a intitute for which i don't know how long. I know my husband and little girl really missed me. I am a little bity better now but not much cause when i go in stores i don't like to be left alone or i can't stand annoying sounds that really angers me. I was diagnosed with Schizophenia. I scared the hell out my daughter when she was young telling her that i would lock us both in my bed room and set the house on fire and don't remember. I fell like the worse person on earth. Right now i listen to my doctors and take my meds, but I am very scared that i will go back to the way i was in those dark years of my life. I had to keep on having HIV test done cause in my mind I thought i had the desease and no one could convince me that i did'nt. I do not get the meaning of life. What is the real purpose of being here? I am 47 years old and suprisingly my daughter turned out to be a wonderful 17 year old cause her father has always been there for her. Now I am there for her to she let me into her wonderful life. I look up to God cause he is our savior. I just wish i knew why i was here on this earth. And why i don't understand that at all.View Thread
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