I think a large portion of people really have schizophrenia, undiagnosed, and a lot with helpful schizophrenia may understand they have it, diagnosed, but do not talk about it. Mine is definitely distracting, and can be moody, and occasionally takes me on a trip to hell, but it’s mostly positive. Still I feel like it’s ruined my experience of life since it comes with supernatural seeming effects and I guess I have a pseudo-delusion it’s punishing me for living on planet Earth. But it’s also helped me to get my life in order, as an artist who wasn’t putting much thought into long-term survival, since I was relying on my family. SSI and SNAP helps in the US. Mine is distracting and I’m taking ADHD and antidepressants, and antipsychotics that I can’t tell makes a difference for me/us. But it keeps me level with constant internal dialogue for the most part. Mine only stands down in the presence of company, since it seems to take more of an interest in other people.
Welcome, first of all.
I can’t say I’ve ever heard of someone being described as having “helpful schizophrenia” or “pleasant schizophrenia”. What does that mean?
Lol, now that I think of it, maybe we should actually use those terms more.
You forgot “nice schizophrenia”.
Welcome to the forum @Michael_P .
I think maybe you are projecting your own circumstances onto others here or something.
As to your question about “helpful/pleasant schizophrenia”, I would venture to guess that the answer is probably no. I think 99% of the people here do not want it and would be happy if it were to suddenly disappear from their lives one day. Including me.
Hello, @Michael_P
@Bowens I agree with you for 100%… if I could delete a SZ from my brain, I would do that without thinking. It’s just caused too much trouble in life. And suffering. And the need of meds is paralysing to think about. Like, without meds I would be a vegetable and with 0% insight and control over my illness and myself, sadly. Well atleast half of self control would be gone. Simply as that,
So SZ is not nice.
nothing helpful or pleasant about it from my point of view,
its really horrible.
I’ve never heard of anyone having pleasant schizophrenia
Hello @Michael_P
Sometimes I can be pleasant, and sometimes my parents who I live with can be pleasant
I became almost totally negative, and being around here with others showed me how to become mostly positive
When my body just wants to sleep I become very uncomfortable and start becoming a very withdrawn person from society
When I am stressed I become obsessed with my self and others and have to work a little to build up my mental cognition during these times of complete obsession
I dont feel completely alone with Schizophrenia with all the things others have shared here
I believe it’s about 1-3% of the population that get diagnosed schizoprenia or a similar condition. Most people definitly don’t have it.
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No. Schizophrenia is a very disruptive illness. It would show if a majority of people had it.
Add me to that list. I am tired of this monkey on my back, although I am resigned to it.
Since I’ve had schizophrenia I’ve spoken to a lot of people who have it in their family and people who don’t think of themselves as having it describing their inner life exactly like schizophrenia to me. They just don’t see it as a problem, and they self-identify with it to some extent, rather than dissociating.
[religious content removed by moderator] My schizophrenia experience was initially supernatural to me (it still is) because I didn’t understand the symptoms of schizophrenia, which is often without behavioral problems. I share a lot of this person’s [link removed by moderator] experience, and I think you guys here didn’t treat him well.
My schizophrenia are arm chair psychologists and they think what they do is unconscious in a lot people, and it just causes them moodiness, bipolar, depression, SI or HI, and so on, just grumbling beneath the surface, but they like to be nurturing when you’re down and I think they’re addicted to giving people a roller-coaster like experience. They probably just get bored.
Here [link removed by moderator] is a link describing positive experiences of schizophrenia. I’m personally only curious about how common this is. Mine express frustration that my mind is really clean/free of guilty incidents that I think they might prefer to dwell on, and they say that being in my mind forces them to be good. Because my mind is based on honesty I think. I have bad memory and simple/direct thoughts, so I think dishonesty is a problem for my mind to keep track of. As a strategy it avoids it. And I have many, many levels of schizophrenic like “higher intelligence” in my mind, that mostly stays quiet. But this all came onto me at the tail end of last year, when my onset experience happened.
Thanks everyone for greeting me. I do understand how you all feel. My SZ has taken me on a journey showing me a full spectrum of unpleasantness, so I can definitely empathize. And at may points I felt suicidal when projecting my life out into the future, living with it.
Edited: Mine says now I’m masochistic and that the people in this atlantic article might be adapting their SZ by being kind to it, and living with it as if a friend. If that’s possible. Mine has become a constant friend or companion (really there’s many of voices in me, but the main group can only talk one at a time) and I’ve been with them for 8 months now, since the onset which took about 2.5 months, and they worked with me to adapt to SZ during this period. We feel we have help from an arrangement something like “Internal Family System”.
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@Michael_P, new users are prohibited from posting links until they participate enough in the community to increase their trust level. Your circumventing the filter to post questionable content shows me that you are not trustworthy at this stage and I have locked you at new member for the time being. This will be revisited in the future if you behave better. Also, please keep in mind that we do not allow religious discussions here as they are triggering for many of our members. Please avoid this in the future as well.
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ive heard of some people that have kind voices. but usually they are symptomatic in ways that may not seem unpleasant to them but in general being out of touch with reality can be pretty disabling. like if you are having conversations with a friendly voices 24/7 that distracts you from real life or being engulfed in a fantasy mentally (which is rare as voices are usually accompanied by delusions and other symptoms), i dont see how youd function despite people with negative voices having much higher levels of suffering
One link was to your forum. Another to an Atlantic article. And a third to Wikipedia.
You are missing the point @Michael_P… New users are prohibited from posting links, period.
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This site is pro recovery and pro meds and can be a great help as a support network because everyone here knows what it means to have schizoprenia or psychosis, but we don’t discuss delusions except in a recovery based context, since that would be counter productive 
Helpful and pleaseant sz? Where did you find this?