Does schizophrenia ultimately try to take total control of your mind and body and make you do things which you don’t want to do?
It can, i used to call it being roboted. The illness would take over complete control of my body but i could still talk even though the voices and all of my thoughts were forced out of my mouth.
It feels that way sometimes. Are you on any antipsychotic medications? They might help.
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I don’t think schizophrenia tries to do anything. It’s just an organic brain disorder. But, I look forward to hearing what others say.
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SZ affects different people in different ways. It detached me from reality plus it left me with crippling and lifelong negative symptoms that I have to struggle with every day. I’ve regained my insight and have made great progress towards recovery, but I am not cured nor will I ever be. The best advice I can give is to take meds as directed, follow the advice of your treatment team, exercise and eat the best you can, and keep a positive attitude - there is always room for improvement.
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I don’t think so. I think people do that.
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Not to that degree/extent. There’s a tendency where I may dissociate/disconnect which could cause me to move where I didn’t mean to move. Out-of-body experience. If a pdoc asks me if I harm myself … it’s not really if I self-harm myself … it’s referring to accidental clumsiness or mental disconnection.
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It’s affected me immensely. Lots of trauma and putting myself in dangerous predicaments. I would say that as time has passed I’ve learned to better accept my condition and be more open, and aware of it.
I’ve never been in a state where I felt out of control, I’ve felt impulsive, but I still maintained a small part of my ethics.
You need to be on treatment, for a few months, and if the drug isn’t effective, you might do things you wouldn’t do if you were more rational.
My psychotic break was a time when I was making very strange associations between things happening and the world. If you are the type of person to feel unsafe or angry or feel like lashing out, and you do this in general you could very well be unsafe.
However that’s typically only in a full psychotic break. If you are on treatment, you might feel dull like thinking is harder, likely you may feel some lingering confusion about the state of reality, you are going to be potentially paranoid or suspicious or curious about things, and generally they hit you pretty hard to get your feet back on the ground in-in patient care because they’re throwing the medicine at you praying its effective enough to get you stable enough to eat to behave civilly in the in house unit etc.
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Good question.
I have always wondered whether I was under external control when all this happened. It was unbelievable, in terms of the things that happened.
A lot of people complain about mind control with this illness. I don’t understand how the brain could do all this.
When I get psychotic I lose my memory. Fortunately I have never done anything that hurt anyone or got me arrested but there are plenty of days I don’t remember. Again fortunately most of them I spent locked up in a hospital.
It’s much easier being med compliant.
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