I’m just curous, I got told a few days ago that its my parents fault if I have a mental illness. please notice the “if”. anyway I was informed that my parents were bad parents. So I have never blamed anyone else for my illness. I got it, just by pure misfortune.
I want to blame my dad for my illness because growing up as a child I witnessed him abuse my mother whenever he would get drank and that would be several times during a week. He constantly yelled and screamed at her and he beat her too. I think the stress that I lived through witnessing all of that drama made me become schizophrenic. I remember not sleeping endless nights and witnessing all his drunk drama. I would cry a lot too. Anyway, to sum it up I blame my dad for my sz since I don’t have any relatives with that disease. Do you guys think I am right or wrong about the cause of my sz?
I’ve heard it both ways I have heard trauma can lead to it then I’ve heard it can’t but i’m sure @mortimermouse can explain it
I blame Jesus…and time travelling abraham Lincoln…
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If it was trauma all that happened was that I was kept awake for one night by someone playing bass in the floor above me. However I since come to realize that I can’t trust that at all because I have hallucinated music and the feeling of bass. I also wonder how thin the walls actually were that I could hear them through the walls. I said it previously but it was also stressful that I thought a woman was being raped over and over again in the room above mine. That could be stressful. However I have hallucinated everyone in the rooms around mine being murdered while in the hospital so everything that I thought I perceived could be fake. Part of me wants to exact some kind of vengeance on the person that caused this to me, but deep down I know that it is no one’s fault.
What about Mecha-Ghandi? He’s to blame for me.
Nah, it’s just a combination of stressful life and bad genetics.
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I always blame my brother for things that he did to me when I was young it was one of the main things that i would think and hear about when i started hearing voices also the first voice I started hearing was his so it also adds on to it.
Pointing fingers is pointlessly pointless…
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Sometimes I blame myself.
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I’ve always found someone that I feel is pursicuting me and causing me stress that sends me into physcocis . I tend to blame them until I get well enough to know it was all the sz.
That’s a tricky one. On one level I think the bullying contributed to my paranoia and social anxiety. On another I think would they have bullied me if I had not been a little odd/latently ill anyway ?
I think if you are susceptible to mental illness it’s difficult to avoid all the possible triggers. It’s like looking down at your feet for banana skins and walking into the lamp post.
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For a good while I blamed my dad, but as I grew up I began to see that there was a lot of good in him as well as bad. These days I blame God for a lot of my humiliations and anguish, and I’m an agnostic.
I blame experimenting with drugs, that brought out my genetic vulnerability. My dad has terrible genetics for sz and other mental ilnesses so I also blame him. He shouldn’t have had 5 children knowing he carried such strong genetics for sz. My siblings all might end up with it, I expect there will be at least one besides me. His sz genetics are so strong.
Why do you think that your dad has strong genetics for sz? Is he sz himself?
i dont blame anyone i think it does run in the family on my dads side because my uncle was in hospital alot and my dad has manic depression and my gran went senile and my antie had parkinsons xx
i think its just all related xx
He’s not but its on both his mother and father side of the family. His brother is sz and his half sister is sz. His father had severe depression towards the end of his life. So plenty of sz to go arpund. I wouldn’t be surprised if my siblings come down with it.
Yeah, I blame lots of people. Myself because I react to stress so poorly and I believe years of stress have contributed to the illness. My parents for not helping me develop coping mechanisms to deal with the stress. My dad for deciding to have children when he has family members with the illness. My husband for inflicting horrible mental abuse on me. My children because I believe the hormone changes in pregnancy and breast feeding is what caused the schizophrenia. I know I sound like an idiot but it’s just how I feel.
I kinda give myself a hard time for my former cannabis use. But have come to terms with that. Don’t blame anyone else.
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My mom and aunt are schizo so i guess it’s in the genetics but it was triggered after crazy stress.
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I blame the government. I worked in the military and was chewed up by psychos and sadists. I came down with the illness after the military though, so who really knows. When I started speaking out about what happened to me in the military I became even worse and felt that the government had targeted me to silence the facts. I’m in a horrible form of illness that has hallucinations of military officials and government leaders torturing me for information I don’t have.
Very frustrating.
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