Or is it all just impossible for others to fully understand.
I have sz, I still don’t understand negative symtoms…except with socializing.
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They try to understand it. I can’t explain it.
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Yes I think I understand it, generally. Or at least I might be able to explain the causes and psychobiology one symptom at a time, with a little help from google.
Yeah, i cant explain it much either. Alot of it involved religious and paranormal, that i wasnt able to make sane sense of many decisions i made.
Hmm. . .
Life Is A Mystery That Can Never Be Truly Understood.
Under Labels Even More So.
Which Makes It Fascinating.
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My whole family has.
But my pops especially.
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My husband understands my SzA pretty well. He had a hard time understanding, at first, but over time (7.5 years) he now fully understands me. 
EDIT: He was always supportive of me. Just making that clear. He just couldn’t understand, at first.
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When I was psychotic, I spent a lot of time trying to explain my symptoms to normies or near normies. They never understood.
I tell you who did understand was my mental health team.
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No one really did. But I had 2 bosses from different jobs that were very accommodating and very good to me.
No, no one understands it, people sometimes ask questions and I do my best to explain it but I don’t blame them for not getting it. When I developed it, it was nothing like what I thought it was based on what I had heard beforehand. Mental illness hit me like a ton of bricks, so I can understand why other people don’t get it.
My parents try, but they still think that it’s multiple personalities. Love them to bits but they just don’t get it.
It’s why I love this forum so much, so much support and understanding 
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My mom probably a bit after ten years in it… She told me, that at the beginning, she wasn’t understanding it, she was even getting angry to me… and still does it sometimes, while I am just scared as hell 
I find, that those who knew it the best, were my pdocs though… They said, that I am severe and that I live in hell… While at the first sight, you couldn’t tell nothing abnormal about me, so the people around me still want too much from me… it’s all inside of me, I was also silent for years before… while I was in hell yeah…
But yeah, the docs saw that and they know, that it’s very serious and that I am in real pain. No one else basically didn’t see that…
My parents and my siblings do
They don’t understand it totally but they have a feel about it
No one. Not even really the Psychiatric Services. If there is one thing that i have learnt - is that the onus is on you, to make the change for recovery.
Mother and the police just thought i was badly behaved and a deviant. They didnt realise i was lashing out, in response to what was in my head without any insight.
Schizophrenia is a lifelong personal journey of self-discovery, learning what triggers you and learning to avoid the usual drugs and drink most of us turn too in the early days, in order to self-medicate.
It does get better as you age. Thru your suffering comes experience - and as long as your self-aware and learn from it. You do learn to smile again - and have a dark sense of humour of what you got upto when you was younger.
Its not a death sentance. You just gotta adjust how you live your life.
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I think anyone who has ever had a nightmare can be aware of sz. It just didn’t stay with them.
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You can explain it
comprehending the consequences of living such a life is difficult tho I’m sure
@BrianTex i can kinda understand it… but I also ask my doctors a lot of questions to understand it better.is there something you wanted to know? I might be able to help
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