similar to a spectrum like autism has different degrees, grading from mild to server
can you be a very mild schz?
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Yes. Paranoid schizophrenia has better prognosis than disorganized schizophrenia
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my diagnosis is sza, im 19 years on meds
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Mine is situational, I’m high functioning I think. I know when I’m going to be annoyed to death by voices and how to make them stop.
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My doctor has told me that my schizophrenia is mild but because it is schizophrenia it is still severe no matter what
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It’s a spectrum and we can recover now and are allowed too with all these fancy medications.
It’s not a life sentence for all now like it used to be, and we should all be grateful of how we’re treated.
Care in the community is better, but it’s still not great how some places are cutting acute provisions.
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great summary there @Joker
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My doctor told me I was high functioning.
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high functioning means mild sz IMO
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Same, but when I’m sick it is hard to function. I think so too I have mild sch.
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When I was on clozapine I was mild sz. But now changing meds I’m back to being more severe.
I had one psychologist say I’m borderline schizophrenic. He thought I had brain damage too from substances. He thought I smoked synthetic marijuana 8 years ago. I don’t think so. I have no clue. That stuff is evil.
They used to sell that in stores. It was called Salvia.
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No, everybody would take advantage of you. You have to be an as*hole.
I’m sure I come off completely normal at my psychiatry appointments. I wish I had a hidden cam recording my behavior all the time, and could edit parts of it together and take that footage with me to the appointment.
I used to flap my arms and talk to myself when I was younger when I was alone. This was before the illness. I act and look normal.
Well there are tons of different variants of the illness because everyone is an individual. Like for example I dont really have cognitive symptoms or mania with my schizoaffective, and my functioning even off meds is ok (not very good…just ok, passing) so some may consider me to be on the “milder” side of the spectrum. However I hate to put anything involving suffering on a scale of mild to severe because I have still suffered tremendously from my symptoms and would resent having my case be called mild. My hallucinations certainly aren’t mild. My depression certainly isn’t mild. See what I mean?
In a more broad sense very mildly schizophrenic symptoms not really to the point of mental disorder tends to lump people into the schizotypal family. These are people who are, well, eccentric by society’s standards and paranoid but that’s about it.
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