Did schizophrenia make you a sensitive person?

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Or was I always like this? I feel too much, I get lost in my thoughts and imagination.

I don’t remember if I was always like this. When someone is mean to me, I never forget it, I remember words from more than 10 years or more.

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Hyper sensitivity to friends and family is common with this disease.

I was really sensitive but I’ve got much better since being diagnosed.

I’m not perfect. I still hold grudges.

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I’ve always wondered. What does a person remember more…an insult or a compliment?

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I always seem to remember the insults more than compliments.Flashbacks and rumination are my worst enemies

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One way to find out :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

You are funny @anon39054230

I always take extra steps to compliment people around me. I remember most insults, bullying etc.

I remember once you told me I always reminded you of Elizabeth Taylor. I can’t find the username of the other person on the forum but he always said I was very beautiful.

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One time @everhopeful told me I was very confident.

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I think we all have our personalities and SZ may amplify certain parts of it. Sz has made me more understanding of how the brain can work, and more understanding to people and how they behave SZ or not.

You seem to be a caring and understanding woman

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I think sz contributed to my levels of sensitivity but I think there are other things in life that did too.

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Thank you, I do my best to be caring and understanding.

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I wasn’t like this, I was very mean when I was a teenager and younger. But I didn’t know better. It might be Karma.

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Your teenage years and early 20’s are set aside for being a jerk. We all were from one degree to another. Then hopefully you mature and learn from your mistakes to become a better person.

It’s just part of growing up.

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That’s right :slight_smile:

15 character.

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I was sensitive since I was a kid but SZ made me extremely sensitive.

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All of my life I was ultrasensitive. I would cry at commercials, sermons and homilies. Uncontrollably too. I took everything that was ever said to heart. Everything touched my soul.

Then, when I got older, much older, I was placed on three AP’s. After that, I was cold as a stone. I never cried at anything. I didn’t even cry at my mother’s deathbed. Not even at my own son’s funeral. The meds rendered me emotionless.

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Short answer: no.
Developing schizophrenia put me on the train to med town, and medication took away my ability to get lost in thoughts and imagination as well as a good degree of emotional sensitivity, leaving me with bitterness and blankness. Schizophrenia only ever made me more agitated. The only “sensitivity” it ever gave me was an extreme one to sound. Other than that, having to be on meds for the condition pretty well carved out the extremely empathetic individual I once was. Hard to relate when you aren’t feeling a drop of emotion.

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Yes SZ makes you hypersensitive, my doctors told me that. I wasn’t hypersensitive when I was a child before my SZ. Meds made me less hypersensitive.

I get easily irritated and triggered. Without meds I become dangerous so my doctors are right.

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My Schizophrenia makes me feel understimulated in a blunt, dull type of pain … Mixed with anxiety and misery …
No fun :frowning:

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I think it’s the other way around. Sensitivity can make you susceptible to schizophrenia.

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I don’t know if sza made me sensitive or if being sensitive contributed to my sza. But yes I’m very sensitive. Can’t handle conflict and confrontation. And violence on movies and news channels. Even animals killing each other upsets me.

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I’ve found the opposite to be true. I was always extremely sensitive. Since the voices started, I have found that the best way to manage them is by shutting down and not showing emotion. I have completely changed in that regard. I used to cry all the time and be very emotional, but now I am a lot tougher. I rarely react or show emotion when the voices are getting to me. I sometimes feel like I’m going to cry, but it’s always very short lived and I go back to neutral. I pretty much am neutral all the time now. I don’t feel joy or positive emotions very much anymore either. Everything has become stunted. It is disappointing because I actually always liked my sensitivity and thought it was a good thing. I think showing emotions are a good thing, most of the time.

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