Am I a real schizophrenic if I don't experience voices or hallucinations?

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I was just delusional. I take 10mg Abilify.

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Yes. Hallucinations are not necessary to receive the diagnosis.

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I didn’t experience voices until years after I was diagnosed. I’m on Abilify 10 mg as well.

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I’ve got paranoid schizophrenia. If I don’t take meds I end up thinking I can fly and might end up jumping off a building etc.

But I don’t hear or see things either.

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If I don’t take meds I develop a series of delusions as well. I also sometimes think the tv is talking to me or I can hear the radio personalities talking during songs.

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No voices or hallucinations here and yes i have schizophrenia

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When I was unwell I had ideas of reference like this too. I also had persecutory delusions. I thought I was under surveillance. I thought people were reading my mind and spying on me. And I developed some paranoia about the number of the beast but no voices or hallucinations.

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I have the whole bundle but still wasn’t diagnosed with sz :grimacing: I feel sz diagnosis is based more on whether or not you have serious cognitive impairment combined with some sort of positive symptom.

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But also u can have delusional disorder which is different from schizophrenia. If it’s preventing your occupational functioning though it’s more in line with schizophrenia, if u still function well u may not have it.

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Wrong, @anna its cognitive or negative symptoms. Plenty of ppl here with sz who are fine cognitively including myself.

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I had been diagnosed for a good while before I had any hallucinations. I did become convinced that people were trying to get me to kill myself before I ever hallucinated, though. I took off to Texas, but I came back. I bought a .22 auto handgun. My reasoning was that when they saw I wasn’t going to kill myself they would send somebody after me. I thought I needed the gun for self protection.

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I’m a shaman I don’t have schizophrenia. But I’ve experienced madness numerous times and if my mood is right I come right out of it and walk amongst the living

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I have that, what you’ve said and I’m not diagnosed with schizophrenia neither😕

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I would think so I can be unreasonably delusional with out hallucinations but I’ve had auditory ones before sometimes when I take melatonin I hear voices

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I’ve never heard voices or hallucinated…

But I have the delusions of reference and delusions of persecution in spades when I go off of my medication.

I begin reading double/triple meanings into Tv, Computer, Newspapers, Radio, Billboards, Truck signs…etc. Eventually reading into simple objects. Then I become exhausted, don’t eat sleep or shower and need to be carted off to the Hospital.

I’m a classic/textbook schizophrenic according to the powers that be.

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I didn’t get hallucinations until I stopped taking my meds. Then I got them vividly.

Stay on your meds.

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i had a bunch of sporadic hallucinations
there are things about which even now im not sure if they happened
but the hallmarks of my sz were delusions they destroyed me the most

fine now

edit: and i never had real voices

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Whoops yeah, I was lumping in negative with cognitive. Sometimes people don’t distinguish between the two.

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Yea you did! I read that post and totally thought that I was a schizophrenic because I have mild Dementia too in addition to positive symptoms

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I really don’t Hallucinate on Risperdal.
Off my meds I can Hallucinate, but I don’t hear voices so much.
My big issues are Delusions and Paranoia.