Can somebody help me with a reality check please?

Can somebody help me with a reality check please?

Im up late UK 2.25am

Im feeling confused about this site and my Dr’s gp appointment tomorrow, ive been stressed all day and thinking im being watched, checking things

How does this site make money to support itself costs without any advertising?
My hubby keeps telling me its to get information from people but i dont think so

My gp is kinda scary hes removing a skin tag thats all, i was stressed about asking him to remove a mole too but last time i spoke to him he was all cross with me and inpatient

I just need support please

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It’s probably not that expensive to run a site like this. There aren’t that many users here.

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That always trips me out. Theres billions of people. If schizophrenia affects 1% of the population where is everyone at? xD

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Gaming probably

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The site is paid for by the site owner in memory of his brother that died and was sz.

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Thanks @anon4362788

I don’t know where my head is tonight
Im over tired cant sleep and getting mad thoughts sorry

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Started in 1995, Schizophrenia.com is an internet community dedicated to providing high quality information, support and education to the family members, caregivers and individuals whose lives have been impacted by schizophrenia. This web community was founded in memory of John Chiko, who suffered from schizophrenia. We are dedicated to improving the lives of all individuals and families suffering from schizophrenia, and in speeding the research progress towards a cure.

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I assure you, we have no interest in anyone’s information here. We do not allow paid research studies, we don’t collect any information on members. This is truly a free safe space.

Mods are not paid, we’re volunteers and originally regular users.

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Thats very reassuring thankyou

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I always wondered how this side come about.

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The guy Chiko this site is dedicated to he passed age 36 yrs. Its too young, so sad.

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I don’t think anyone here is here because they feel like trolling, or harassing. If someone contacts you and tries to communicate off this platform they may be not worth trying to talk to.

I was in a conversation with a person, and they were having a hard time, and I decided I’d talk to them over discord. I sort of gave them the scope of my experience with the illness, and how I handled things, and how long my journey to getting to feeling pretty ok was and that time span.

It sort of got weird because they brought up religion, I think for people recovering from delusions and trying to wrangle with that, that its important to remain as neutral on religion as you can.

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@Ryanana thanks im good now

Your experience was probably someone trying to help but who am i to say? There might be hidden agenda with a few god knows?

My uncle who was schizophrenic also died very young in his 30s. Sometimes feel like i’m walking the same path.

Ducky one thing that seems to hold true for me is that as stable as you can get it, try to keep a sleep schedule. If you get your sleep messed up, try to get it back on track.

If you’re having sleep issues, in combination with your schizophrenia or psychotic disorder, bring it up, because it can affect it.

I also think that you need to identify when you feel the best during the day, and try to seize that moment for as much productive things you can do as you can.

Paranoia is a thing we see a lot on here. Its a real ear-worm kind of thing. I tell people often on here that you have to think about a few things and take it in perspective.

Are you participating in any criminal activity and have people from that community interested in your personal affairs?

Are you showing off an out of character for your region amount of wealth?

Are you in a relationship where someone has a vested interest in your financial affairs?

Cameras and surveillance do exist in our modern societies, the vast majority of which are there for the sole purpose of tracking criminal activity and monitoring theft from stores and loss prevention services by stores.

You are in general yes being watched, but many of these things are only interested in certain activities and triggered the monitoring by a coinciding theft report of vandalism or other crime.

Sometimes people out in the country experience theft, and they have deer cameras to catch neighbors that might attempt to steal things they can’t monitor all the time.

They’re all doing it for very normal reasonably normal any way, reasons.

If you have a criminal aspect to your life, I recommend leaving it behind and trying to reduce stress, because stress can exaggerate the problems we have.

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Its complicated

Ive lived with physical and emotional abuse and personal problems for most of my life

Things are mixed up in my head and i probably need therapy again but its unavailable where i live at this time

Im sz and im on meds so i do get help from meds

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Therapy is a good goal long term, but maybe there are methods you can do on your own to calm down?

Have you looked into breathing techniques? There’s quite a few that can calm you down.

Personally I close my eyes, put my fingertips together, and think about a potential multiverse of me’s out there, and that they’d all want ourselves to do well and better ourselves and to be the best version of ourselves.

I think that at least I care about me. So it sort of works whether you have a strong connection to family or not.

Try finding your sort of version of that that works. Its a kind of work that people don’t often think about as something that takes effort and self monitoring and I feel its helpful for feeling better, to try and find things like this that help.

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I love this place. The folks here have helped and I would be sad if sz forum closed down. We need each other to get through it all. What would we do if there was no sz forum?

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