I’ve been officially diagnosed as schizophrenic, but I still don’t really believe I’m ill (although I do realize there’s a possibility it’s true). This is because I’ve experienced some extremely weird events, sensations, and changes that I just can’t explain away as symptoms of schizophrenia.
What about you? Do you deny being schizophrenic? If so, why? Is your level of denial consistent over time or does it fluctuate depending on other factors (stress, medication, etc.)?
I rationally question of my label is accurate. With the rate of recovery I’ve experienced and my irresponsiveness to meds. I’m not certain I have the lifelong illness that is schizophrenia. People disagree about what schizophrenia is.
I’ve definitely seen a lot of the facets of psychosis.
Perhaps it was just drug induced. In those altered states I changed my programming. Through sobriety and patience I started to get control.
In regards to being seen as a schizo or public ally labeling myself as a sz I’m not to concerned with it. Every time that the ignorant masses have to hear the word and be reminded it’s out there, well I think it’s a good thing.
People who know other people with sz are a lot more accepting than the people who have been blessed not to.
If it goes away entirely and I come off meds and have a normal life. I’ll probably stop talking or even thinking about it unless prompted by context.
For a while there I felt completely schizophrenic.
I don’t deny having Sz, but I don’t let it define me and I don’t regard myself as handicapped or disabled. If I have a handicap, it’s like a golf handicap that lets neurotypicals keep up with me. Poor bastards need all the help they can get.
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As above - What is it? Define it.
OK - A general range/tick list of certain observed/reported symptomatology ranges/criteria that fit a label (like going to the Doctor with a bad stomach ache & the Doctor diagnosing you with a stomach ache). But start to analyse it all & break it all down & the waters become very blurred, dark & muddy. There are no physical tests - there is no known aetiology, & the experts disagree on what it all is. Some people make a complete healing & others don’t (for very debatable reasons).
i accept that i have been diagnosed by a psychiatrist & that my experiences fit with the diagnostic category - i accept that i have/do suffer in ways & my overall functioning has been very effected as well. Beyond that who knows? i don’t know exactly what my experiences were? i don’t have the answers to it all & i don’t see that anyone else does either? Labelling it doesn’t really explain anything & nor does the entire field of psychology/psychiatry explain it. Those that i feel are closer to some kind of an answer (more in depth/integral views) are very unpopular & misunderstood by mainstream biomedical psychiatry, patients & general public alike.
is this a schizophrenic site…!?!
i thought this was " cooking with martha stewart "…lol 
take care 
I’m in denial of nothing, I’m a hypochondriac and I think everything I sense and think is pathological. Trudat like nine times ask my shrink
The doctors tell us that a large percentage of those diagnosed realize we have a problem and will seek help for ourselves. It took me around 10 years after becoming symptomatic that I got in a bit of trouble buying street drugs to self medicate with for what I didn’t even know was to be a diagnoses of SZ., so there is a part of us that goes un-affected to a degree that is not really ill initially, but begins to suffer along with and because of the disturbance we cannot distance ourselves from.
I used to deny it… little by little I think it came into focus… but after the last hospitalization… I couldn’t deny it any more.
My denial comes and goes, I usually deny it when I am well, then I go off meds then I get sick and admit it again that I have sz. I never learn, its a vicious circle.
I have thought like that after my first psychosis. But then the second hit after being succesfully off meds for half a year. No substances in the picture and I don’t buy the withdrawal idea if it took that long to re-emerge. I think it did re-emerge cos I was going through a period with almost no structured activity at all. Structured social activities keep me grounded. I think this holds to some extent for everyone: see psychosis proneness in solitary confinent. Of course there are predispositions as well. They might even cause the inclination to withdraw from such activities, or just dramatically increase the effects that such withdrawal can have on me.
So totally thug life I’m not sure but I like to pretend I’m not crazy and socially impaired and traumatized from the rough past two years hi it’s Justin Tito Malae whatever vacuums in our head or being of the vacuumed glorfnargz and drive bus I mean bys plow plow plow plow plow
I’ve sometimes wondered if I was sz because I haven’t hallucinated that much, but I always did know that I had some kind of mental illness. Whatever it is, I am relatively stable now. If it’s not broke I’m not going to try to fix it.
I know im not.
So many external things have happened it’s an impossibility, i’ve even been shocked and burned and once my spine was physically bent backwards.
But perhaps that is what schizophrenia is. So then id be schizophrenic and wouldn’t deny it.
Definitions. So silly.
Spine bent backwards?