Just wanted to say hi

The usual (and useful) propaganda:

  1. Get a copy of these books, read them and have your family read them, as well. (Torrey can be a bit totalistic and unwilling to see exceptions to his “rules” at times, but most of his book is really worth the effort to plough through.)
    http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Schizophrenia-6th-Edition-Family/dp/0062268856
    http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Family-Guide-Schizophrenia/dp/1593851804/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=schizophren0c-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=XKLY6NWSWJSQ3VYN&creativeASIN=1593851804
  2. Get properly diagnosed by a board-certified psychopharmacologist who specializes in the psychotic disorders. One can find them at…
    http://doctor.webmd.com/find-a-doctor/specialty/psychiatry and https://psychiatrists.psychologytoday.com/rms/
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  3. Work with that “psychiatrist” (or “p-doc”) to develop a medication formula that stabilizes their symptoms sufficiently so that they can tackle the psychotherapy that will disentangle their thinking.
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  4. Psychotherapies for that currently include…
    DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
    MBSR – http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/whatMBSR.php
    MBCT - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22340145
    ACT – https://contextualscience.org/act
    Vipassana – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā
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  5. the even newer somatic psychotherapies like…
    MBBT – https://www.newharbinger.com/blog/introduction-mind-body-bridging-i-system
    SEPT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_Experiencing
    SMPT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorimotor_psychotherapy
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  6. or standard CBTs, like…
    REBT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_therapy
    Schematherapy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_Therapy
    Learned Optimism – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism
    Standard CBT – https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Treatment/Psychotherapy & scroll down
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  7. Get two or more of those “down,” and one can use the skills therefrom in this way to combat delusional thinking and emotional reactivity very quickly: 10 StEP – http://pairadocks.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-10-steps-of-emotion-processing.html
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  8. If you/she/he needs a professional intervention to get through treatment resistance, I would use those search tools in item 2 above. Look for clinics that include intervention and treatment resistance services.
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  9. If you or your sz patient suddenly becomes manic: http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/specialty-focus/bipolar-disorders/article/what-to-do-when-your-depressed-patient-develops-mania/f3218a38f6603114ff2f9d9bfc21acfb.html?
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  10. Look into the RAISE Project at https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=raise%20program%20schizophrenia.
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  11. Look for mental illness clubhouses in your area (which can be hugely helpful… but may also pose risks). Dig through the many articles at https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=mental%20illness%20clubhouse%20model to locate and investigate them.
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Welcome dhendricks57. Feel free to share your personal experiences. People here are actually nice when they hear the word “schizophrenia” or the words “mental” and “illness”. Remember we are people first… and then we go a little crazy, well at least some of us, I suppose.

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I own and have read both of the books. I still refer to them, even now. I have a P-doc and I’ve been on meds since 07. Thank you so much for that and the rest of the information. I’ll definitely take and run with it.

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Yes welcome, agreed that this site is most helpful🌎we are the world

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All of you have made me feel so welcome and glad I posted!

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Welcome, hope you like to participate here :smile:

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You’ll find a lot of support here. We’re glad to have you.

Stay strong. Scientists are hard at work to find remedies for this illness. The best is yet to come.

Welcome dhendricks :+1:

Hello and welcome.

I’m glad you are here.

Welcome dhendricks. I have schizophrenia too, schizoaffective manic type to be exact, but I can get really paranoid as well. You’re not alone here. People here can understand you from an experiential level - something quite impossible for the average person to do. And yes there is hope, even now with the existing technologies and therapies, schizophrenia can be handled quite well, even though there is still no cure. We are human beings of value. So welcome to a place where the people don’t forget that you have value just because you have a diagnosis they can’t understand. We understand quite well.

Welcome! I get paranoid too every now and then and get afraid of posting. I believe my pdoc or friends will see what I write. But I take the courage to write about it and there are several people pulling me back to reality. :slight_smile:

Hello and welcome!

:grin: :blush: :heart:

Pixel.

Hi, my name is Bobby I’m paranoid schizophrenic too.

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Hi @Bobby and @dhendricks57!!..

Welcome to our little slice of the Internet! :slight_smile:

Hi, Thanks Patrick

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Hi, I like this site too. Sometimes I get antisocial and impatient for a response on here but overall this site is a great place to share my experience, strength and hope. Welcome and hugs :smile:

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Welcome! This is the one place on the net I can not fit in and find that I fit in while still not quite fitting in. It’s perfectly imperfect.

I like it. (Sometimes)

Welcome Dhendricks57, nice meeting you here , I am also a sufferer of paranoid schizophrenia

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