Are you ok Sharp? Please seek for help if you need to… take care…
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Wow, that sounds stressful for both of your grandmothers. I also agree with you. If you can still happily live your life, that is all that matters.
My family has a history of mental illness too, but no one talks about it, so I don’t know anything about it.
Well I hope you’re doing okay.
Have you thought of getting a therapist to talk to?
Have one.
Been with her for months now…she says my "head"things r fine as long as they don’t interfere with reality… She’s never argued about the reality of my voices and I don’t involve her with the details…
There is constantly a nagging doubt in my mind as to whether I am ill or just socially dysfunctional. It’s been worse since things have become chronic rather than acute.
I can reality test by saying “would psych services have had you on their books for over 40 years if you were just socially dysfunctional?” but it doesn’t help much. The nagging doubts still remain.
Yes I believe I have a mental illness. I’ve been on meds for over 40 years and when I even slightly reduce the dosage I become agonizingly paranoid and delusional, beginning with delusions of reference.
I’m glad you’re feeling pretty good about yourself and your “abnormalities” right now. Stay in touch.
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I don’t like the word “ill”. I don’t have a disease. But, no one has to convince me that I struggle with a mind that functions, at best, differently from how most people’s brains function. I believe I have a spectrum disorder that I was born predisposed to having. When I was diagnosed as having schizophrenia, it was after a very long time of not knowing what was wrong with me, but knowing for sure something was wrong. No one is lying to me, and I have no doubts about the accuracy of the diagnosis. I’ve already lived with the symptoms, so being told the diagnosis was actually a confirmation and affirmation of what I experience. It gave me something solid to focus on and deal with.
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You’re right to embrace your uniqueness, and I hope you maintain that level of strength and confidence! You can have that, and be aware of the damaging aspects of your condition and work on those. Sz has tangled and deformed my life for over 35 years. I see young people on this forum and sincerely hope and pray for a level of balance that allows a happy and productive (whatever that means for the individual) life. No need to feel bad about having a “mental illness”. I hope it makes you stronger. I hope it inspires creativity. And I hope you, and all of us, face it head-on so it doesn’t destroy all the good we can have.
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Delusional does not = idiot. Don’t be too hard on yourself! Once we know the truth about something, we can be happy to not be delusional about it anymore. Move along now; nothing to see here 
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Okay that’s good. I hope things are going well.
I know the feeling. It’s confusing, isn’t it?
No. I think it’s perfectly normal to hear things that are not there, to be afraid of intimacy to the point that I’ve never dated anyone, to be extremely nervous in a crowd because I think everybody is watching me or talking about me, to not be able to sleep, and to have thoughts that are completely beyond my control if I don’t take a ton of pills. So I’m throwing them away right now. No I believe I’m ill.
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I think it depends on what you nean by illlness, that guy szatse says mental illness doesn’t exist and by the way he defines illness it doesn’t it’s his meaning of the word illness
I once on a mind magazine contact list said i’m not sure whether i’ve got an illness but i have a disability, someone phoned asked if i was disabled and when i said yes laughed and put the phone downm anyone who phones people like that at midnight ,is either ill or antisocial to the extent of been bad
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So - you don’t suffer from any of these delusions?
Oh, Im ill alright - the burning question for my psychiatrists becomes wether I suffer from pure Bipolar or Schizoaffective disorder.
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Yesh. My mind wanders off to the realms of delusions and I have to anchor myself in the shores of reality not to become crazy. Meds help.
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You and I are almost the same person.
I can relate to a lot of that, but they’re not delusions.
I hope you can get it figured out.
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i know i’m ill and I hate it. I really do. but id rather be miserable and taking meds then being like my brother living in denial and making everyone else miserable.
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