What if they say we are sick but we aren’t? Who are they? Doesn’t everyone have voices in their head? Everyone I ask describes some sort of conversation going on in there. Most people on here seem perfectly lovely. Lots of you are still working. We all have families and loved ones. What the hell! I just want to stop taking all these meds and be myself again. As for all the people in my head they are mostly lovely too, why can’t they have a say? Anyway, I know it has to be this way but sometimes I just don’t believe it. Sometimes I think it’s a scam. And if it is true then I wonder “why me?”. Does anyone know how I feel?
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Doesn’t everyone have voices in their head?
I don’t. I never had.
I’m diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. I believe I’m sick. I know what I was like before I got on meds.
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I don’t feel like I’m sick, I have voices that I believe were brought on by medication that I was told I was put on to increase weight gain. I never had voices before that!
I also have thought broadcasting.
But i think maybe I don’t know the full definitions of why I am the way I am and maybe i am sick in the grand scheme of the system
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you don’t have not even one voice in your head?
I believe I have sza but am in remission. I don’t have one voice in my head at the present moment.
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“Do you believe you’re sick?”
I wish i weren’t sick.
how do you know if you’re in remission
Nope. Not even one. But I’m still quite ill and need meds for schizophrenia.
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I know I am in remission because I am not paranoid, depressed, or suicidal.
when you go into remission do your voices stop or just quiet down?
I can go weeks seeming pretty “normal”. I still hear and see things, and I struggle with motivation, etc., but I’m stable. Then something will throw me off and Seraton attacks. When I’m locked in the bathroom, away from the knives in the kitchen, crumpled on the floor and hitting myself in the head, trying to fight Seraton who tells me to kill myself, then I know this is something more…
Something’s wrong with me. Something’s wrong with my mind.
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I don’t feel sick only because the meds work. But I know all hell will break loose if I go off my meds. Been there done that.
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That doesn’t work out well for me. I just had an episode of being off my med’s. I was getting pretty weird.
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I remember a voice that I didn’t recognize, like it was outside of my head telling me to kill myself one time. So I tried but I guess I really didn’t want to go through with it, I was scared and somehow my husband figured it out what was going on. Thank God for my husband. I wont listen to that voice if I hear it again. All these years later the voices are more organized and I seem to have better influence over them. I guess that’s the meds working - or ever we get wiser.
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“Sick” is just a formality.
Sure, everyone is “sick” in some way, a lot even make a career out of it, and/or use it as a foundation to get everything they think they deserve.
To many of us really have something else in addition to what we do know, but just don’t care to have a Dr. confirm it, or even deny it so you fail to seek any treatment until it’s too late for you.
Money makes the Dr’s head go 'round.
I recently doubted if I was sick and tried to reduce my meds. That didn’t work out and the increase in my quality of life on resuming meds has reassured me I am ill enough to benefit from meds.
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Where I live the only mental health services available are public health. My money ,or lack thereof, doesn’t seem to factor in as much as lack of competent clinicians.
I see your point Tera … it’s difficult to distinguish between what a normal person experiences and what we experience because a lot of the symptoms of schizophrenia are actually very normal for anyone without a diagnosis to go through. But it’s the degree to which we experience these things and how much they impact on our daily functioning that separates us.
I too want to go off meds. I too don’t think my main hallucination/companion is harmful, but I know if I go off meds things get scary and they impede on my ability to keep a job and maintain a relationship.
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Money, or lack of it has never been a true factor in the competence equation. You’d hope this weren’t true, but corporate only means the biggest chunks float to the top, not the best chunks.
I’m not sick, I’m a little unwell.
That’s all The Kindness has to say.
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