This aggravates me to no end, but I hate when people automatically assume they have schizophrenia because of one isolated incidence of being paranoid or thinking they saw something out the corner of their eye. Just now, a guy who does have anxiety posted saying he thought he was schizophrenia and then started listing all the different subtypes of schizophrenia. Nowhere in the post did it actually mention what his symptoms were except for thinking people were looking at him. I told him it did not sound like he was schizophrenic just very bad anxiety and that if he developed psychotic symptoms, he should go to a doctor immediately.
Why is this so trendy all of a sudden? The oppression olympics continue!
I am not sure it is trendy. I think some people have always had a fear of psychosis/schizophrenia and latch onto signs that may or may not indicate a problem. It is even worse with those with an obsessive nature.
I used to be sort of like that before I developed any symptoms of psychosis…I was convinced I was going crazy and often questioned whether what I heard and saw was real or not…I knew something was very wrong but it wasn’t to the point of delusions and hallucinations yet. I was even diagnosed before my onset of symptoms.
The weird thing is I eventually did lose my mind…for six years straight I suffered from symptoms of schizophrenia in addition to others things…now I’m in the clear again…far more so than I was even before my onset.
Self fulfilling prophecy it seemed…I don’t know what it was but all I knew was that I was eventually going to lose my mind and I did. Not saying everyone who worries they are going crazy really is or will but it was true in my case.
I think it comes from a number of sources. People don’t understand what paranoia is, for example. They think their co-workers are talking about them behind their backs and call it paranoia. They don’t realize that real paranoia is something unreasonable, like global conspiracies targeting a person for death, or their loved ones plotting to poison them etc.
Also, with the coming of the Internet, people can look up diseases and symptoms easily, and it’s easy to think you have some horrible disease because you think you have one or two of the symptoms. It’s one of the reasons I never look at the DSM, after reading it I’d start thinking that I had every illness under the sun.
Bipolar tends to be the worst of people wanting to being diagnosed with it. Mainly because of all the celebrities that have opened up about being diagnosed with it.
I never claimed any kind of mental illness until I got an official diagnosis. For a really long time I said I had psychosis NOS, because that was what I was diangosed with until it turned into schizophrenia undifferentiated and then to disorganized schizophrenia. It’s just so offensive to those who actually have it. People need to chill haha.
yeah apparently hippies in the 60s thought schizophrenia was far and cool because it was like they were tripping all the time.
i say lets cash in on it make art and try to sell it people like thei artist mad LOL
I wonder if being schizophrenic would help my books sell faster when I get them published… maybe there is an advantage to this after all… could go the other way though… and be a disadvantage.
it’s starting to seem like everyone wants or needs to be a victim of something. It absolves them of responsibility for the crap in their day-to-day lives.
Exactly, I am constantly thinking people are looking at me or talking about me, but I’m not about to go around saying I’m a paranoid schizophrenic, because that’s really the length of my paranoia. If that makes sense.
I think that bipolar, in certain artistic and among certain celebrity circles is trendy - I dont think schizophrenia is quite there yet, but I do picture it being trendy one day soon
I have definitely reached level 4 and possibly level 5 though not the planting stuff in my head more thinking people will get me in my sleep or they’re deliberately going to put an air bubble in my depot to kill me. Sometimes I really have to push myself to let them jab me.
I’d say I’m sitting at level 4. My paranoia is really high right now. It wouldn’t take much for me to hit level 5. I’m waiting for my meds to do their magic. I hate feeling this way. I’m in a mild case of crisis.
Paranoia was never really a defining feature of my illness. I’ve never believed that anyone was out to get me or anything. I mean the delusions, false memories and thought insertion or whatever it was, was enough to drive me to suspecting I was being conspired against. But I was never consumed by paranoia…I may have suspected that a phone conversation was being listened in on but this never stopped me from talking on the phone…
people make assumptions and jumping to conclusions all of the time but whether they are right or wrong is a different thing and i still think that if you think about it long enough it can destabilise the mind and might even cause or trigger sz in the first place so instead of looking things up online and worrying about ‘whats wrong with you’ if you have got any doubts then you really should see a professional and take it from there and hopefully even catch it early before it develops even further if that is the case.
