How does having schizofrenia feel like? Do you or a person close to you have this illness...

Are you fucking dumb?

I'm close friends with a prototypical schizophrenic. I'm able to understand his insights/writings/poetry/art but it all is still pretty much nonsensical gibberish to anyone halfway normal. He has poor self-care skills (will go for days without brushing his teeth and showering though realizing he smells) and has interests in therapy and communism. He enjoys doing audio recordings of himself speaking in a language he invented by himself, definitely sounds like tongues to the uninitiated. He had some falls with he was younger. He can write in English just fine and it's not too difficult to talk with him. He just is sort of disconnected all of the time and has incredibly disjointed thought processes and absolutely zero motivation to do anything remotely normal.

Kek

No, I am a junior HR manager for Tumblr.

>difficult motherfuckers
I don't know why, but this made me laugh.

I have a sister who has a type of schizophrenia called disorganized schizophrenia. Basically this means that if she doesn't take medicine she can't distinguish thoughts from reality ie can't tell memories from imagination.

During her breakdown (which happened at a funeral) she became increasingly paranoid about light and thought that light is making her cold so she walked around the house turning lights off. She also couldn't distinguish people, she kept convincing me that she doesn't have a brother (apparently I was her cousin) but has a sister (she was basically describing herself but she forgot who she was). When 911 and cops came (by law medics aren't allowed to deal with schizophrenics without the presence of the police) she went willingly with them thinking that they're going to a rave party (probably due to their brightly colored uniforms). Hilariously though she didn't want the cops to come in the house because they were "unfashionably dressed for a rave party". She doesn't remember any of it. After that ordeal the doctors tested her with various drungs, found the right combination and now she's more or less stable.

so I know a guy with this and he's pretty normal but he says he's always on lots of drugs
he says that he'll start hearing shit if doesn't take his meds
Is that better?
>fucking Tumblr faggot fight me

sometimes I say what I don't mean to say
but I'm lucky because I'm the only one who understands it.
Things mean other things differently
time and space tend to get smeared
I CAN'T BELIEVE MY EYES!!!
so I pray to jesus and his light to guide me
but not too loudly
becuase demons might hear me
and then they'll start yelling at me at how much a piece of shit I am for being a christian. And then tell me I need to stab my father.

fuck off

How is high school going?

>by law medics aren't allowed to deal with schizophrenics without the presence of the police
That's horrible

You never know when they might turn violent.

bad thread

Schizophrenia is a myth plain and simple.

t. scientiology

I know someone with schizophrenia. He's pretty fucked up, won't get help. He's got a voice who gives him aggressive and hateful thoughts, and experiences some fucked up delusions that he's told me about like waking down a flight of stairs and thinking he feel through a hole full of blood at the end.

He's also got depression and anxiety too which I think are exacerbated by the schizophrenia; he feel like he can never be like a normal person and is convinced he'll always have anhedonia. Over the past few years he's become increasingly spiteful and depressed. Honestly, I really want him to get help but he's utterly averted to getting help from any kind of medical professional or from making his own efforts. I've been trying to help him as him the person he's closest with but I honestly don't know what to do. There's doesn't feel like there's much I really can do.

I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and the symptoms went away with time. Complete and utter myth.

>I'm not 'schizophrenic' because that term is used as a catch all, but I am diagnosed split personality.

No you're not schizophrenic because you do not have schizophrenia. Multiple personality disorder is very different from schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder is more closely related.

>How does having schizofrenia feel like?

I don't really know what you're asking. What does a hallucination feel like? Depends on the hallucination. If you haven't figured out it's not real then it's just like that thing is happening. If you have figured out it's not real then it's just like that thing is happening but with the added discomfort of knowing your brain is malfunctioning at a very basic level and you are absolutely helpless to prevent it.

Same with delusions. If you think they're well funded, organized, high in numbers, and coming to kill you then it's like being a lone scout occupying an observation post and an enemy platoon discovering your position. You know you're going almost surely die. The only hope you have is to hit back as hard and unexpectedly as possible. Even then the hope is not to survive but to take as many of them with you as possible. You can see why this would lead to blood shed.

I lucked out. I realized something was wrong and found someone I trusted and got to an emergency room. If someone would have tried to give me a traffic ticket on the way things would have went very differently for me and likely the poor guy who had no clue what was coming.

t. diagnosed by md

Either it's legal in my state or they thankfully broke the law for me.

>my personal anecdote is scientific evidence
obviously not the cognitive symptoms

The symptoms of schizophrenia can get better with time or even disappear. In order of most likely to least likely the outcomes are: stay about the same(overwhelming majority), get worse, get better.

Source: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia iirc

Of course cancer sometimes gets better on its own as well. That doesn't make it a myth either.

Nigga do what's best for your friend

Schizophernia is a CIA program to subvert truthseekers with 40-80 hz electric wave which is projected by cell phones, routers, and so on by targeting the victim and scrambling their neuroelectrophysiology and making them appear crazy.

>How does having schizofrenia feel like?
Take some acid, but pretend like the ride never ends.
It runs in my family, and had a good friend discover he had it in his early 20's when he quite literally went crazy one day and broke into someone's house because they angels were warning him about something down there.
Super spooky stuff honestly.

Not really. They can become very dangerous to themselves and others on the drop of a hat.

>There's doesn't feel like there's much I really can do.

Outside of discovering a better treatment there's not a whole hell of a lot that can be done. People often assume that schizophrenics with symptoms just aren't being compliant with their medications. The problem is people don't realize that not too long ago we were treating it with lobotomies. If you've ever taken an antipsychotic you would realize it's not a whole hell of a lot different than a reversible lobotomy. Fun fact: lobotomies are fucking effective. Chills you right the fuck out most of the time.

When I was in the psych ward I paid attention to the other patients to get an idea of what I was in for and how effective the treatments were. An unnervingly large number of them didn't get better. Notice that compliance is enforced in this environment. They make sure you swallow them. If you puke them up they will give them to you with intramuscular injections.

What does work every time in my experience is a large dose of an antipsychotic with a strong sleepiness side effect. When you get violent they will hold you down and give you a shot. I've never seen that not stop the symptoms for at least 24 hours. Unfortunately that's because their brain is turned off. This is very similar to how a lobotomy "works."

Try to talk him in to going to the doctor and trying antipsychotics. They do rarely work. They did for me. If he ever threatens others directly stop him and have him committed. If he ever threatens himself then you have to answer a moral question of whether euthanizing yourself is a right. I resolved to give the drugs 6 months to work before I would have killed myself. I would not stand in anyone's way after I made sure it was not an impulsive decision. There are fates worse than death. Literal living hell is one of them.

I'll never understand how people can casually do hallucinogens. It sounds literally like hell to me.

give him psilocybin. the drugs he is taking is more than likely very harmful

There were some research being done, before LSD got scheduled, about using theraputic doses of LSD and psilocybin with near catatonic schizophrenic children. Before the study got canceled they were getting some positive results.

schizophrenia is like being in in a fucked up situation which you cannot escape.
as if you a 30 yo virgin introvert and you in a night club, and some chad come to you and start talking with you. but this night club is your home, and that chad is your mother.
that's pretty much what schizophrenia is

I feel the same. I always thought it was normal, but a week ago I talked about it with a friend and then I realized that not all the people feels like having to persons who are always talking. But I read that if you have split personality you have blackouts and that never happened to me, or that's a hollywood meme?

just take the drugs and you won't notice it.

That just sounds like a fever dream.

Relative has it. Unmedicated, they experience everything normally except their life is narrated by very aggressive and mean-spirited voices. And even though they know the voices are hallucinations, they paradoxically believe the voices are real and everything they say is true.

Have you also been diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia?

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For some reason I've had three different friends who developed schizophrenia:

One of them was just really boring and would stare off into space with a blank-ass stare and completely "space-out". (I haven't seen him in years and I wasn't as close with this guy.)

One of them is really annoying and will do stuff like randomly change the topic of conversation out of nowhere, sometimes even mid-sentence, and then act as if it's perfectly normal and like you should still be following him just fine. He also constantly talks about nonsense including "energies", supernatural shit, and his "abilities". (We're pretty close, although he can be really annoying so our friendship is more of an on-off thing where sometimes I have to ignore him for a few weeks or even months).

Finally, one of them is pretty amusing because he has what must be paranoid schizophrenia. One time he called me because there was a blank white van parked in front of his house and he was convinced it was the cops and that they were spying on him. I tried to convince him that they wouldn't park right in front of his house and that they probably wouldn't be driving the most stereotypical 80s/90s cops movie surveillance van. Another time when we were at his house, he started spazzing out in front of his mom about a guy outside with an uzi.
It was weird because I pretty much witnessed him slowly mentally deteriorate over the course of our friendship. It was really only a matter of a few months between when he was relatively normal, and when he was full-blown paranoid and delusional. Thankfully, he's prescribed medication that really seems to work, and has remained compliant with treatment - unlike most schizophrenics; I think it's perhaps because he has paranoid schizophrenia, so his symptoms are pretty unpleasant (whereas someone like the second friend I mentioned probably doesn't have as much desire to remain medicated, considering he basically thinks he has superhuman/supernatural powers).

>tfw subjective idealist
>tfw wish I was schizophrenic
How can I confirm reality is a creation of my mind when all I see is boring shit everyone else also sees?

That's the problem, I'm not sure what's best for him.

It's not his schizophrenia I'm really concerned with helping, I understand that there may not be much that can be done with that regard. It's his depression and outlook on his condition that I'm concerned with. He feels very isolated from everyone else, and not matter how much I try to make him feel like he's a part of society or our clique, it doesn't seem to help. I know that's a common experience with depression, it's something I went through too. But he experiences differently because of his schizophrenic symptoms I guess.

I'm not necessarily against euthanasia either, but I feel that that's a last resort type thing. I've got this feeling that while his schizophrenic symptoms won't ever go away, his relationship with them can change to become if not positive, at least manageable to a level where he has a real interest in life again. I've heard reports that people with schizophrenia in other countries experiences the voices at least as more friendly, and the reason that it's not that way in America is a mixture of our more independent and private attitudes, along with out cultural stereotypes and expectations. This makes me think that maybe with therapy and possible medication he may get better.

He seems to have not even an inkling of such hope for himself. I was in a similar position as him in terms of his depressed mindset, and I got myself out of through a mixture of psychedelics and meditation, but psychedelics obviously seem like a very bad idea for him. I've considered possibly MDMA for him, that may at least get him passed his aggressive and hateful tendencies, but even that may be risky. I think he needs some sort of push though to get motivated for change, and I'm not sure what I can do to help him get that.

take hallucinogens, or think harder. maybe try sensory deprivation or meditation or looking at optical illusions or some shit.

My mom has schizophrenia. She has frequent mood swings and she's extremely paranoid. She thinks that there are cameras in the house and takes me outside whenever she wants to tell me something important. She sometimes curses almost anyone, luckily it's stopped now but I do see her fuming at the whole world sometimes while not saying anything.

Depends on the person.

fuck you faggots that isn't the case with all schizophrenics. Same bullshit with anyone that has suicidal thoughts too. Im not a danger to anyone I just suffer from depression.
t. faggot that had their nurse call 911 just because I took one of their tests

kek literally sounds like me but im not schizophrenic. The voices in my head never stop arguing but at least I know they are in my head.

you WILL notice all the debilitating side effects