For some reason my neighbourhood has a lot of people with schizophrenia/psychotic disorders. I see a lot of people talking to themselves and gesturing at hallucinations. I don’t really feel fear myself but I see a lot of people are fearful of them. My own mother raised me while she had schizophrenia so am used to seeing people talking to themselves/bizarre behaviour that’s why am not afraid.
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I don’t fear people with sz. I just don’t know how to deal with a person during full blown psychosis. They (we) rarely listen to logical arguments.
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Sure. I know how unpredictable I can be. So that puts me on edge about others with the same condition.
As a sz’nic I do fear myself plus others with sz.
As per my experience things can really go wrong.
If I explain it can be missed used against me.
Best is to be a secret and don’t let triggers explained.
Yes. Schizos are prone to agitation. It’s easy to irritate them, and get into conflict, have them do aggressive and offensive things to you. I’m not really afriad Im 6’2 210 lb not that fat.
I’m cautious around homeless young males
Many of them have some sort of untreated psychosis
Yeah I can get pretty scary when I’m experiencing full blown mania but I am medicated
I used to be pretty benign when psychotic, but lately, when I experience even half psychosis, I can get violent and irascible. But I like to think that I’m an anomaly and that most schizophrenics were like me early on - scared. I’m not afraid of other schizophrenics and mostly feel a need to help them.
As someone with a history of violence when unmedicated, i do fear unmedicated szs. I once tried to take a gun off a hospital security guard. The unpredictability is what makes the situation volatile, as normal rules of logic don’t apply.
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Depends on which one. But usually yes.
As someone who has been violent during psychotic episodes it makes me aware that some other schizophrenics are the same. So yeah, I kinda do fear them.
The females can be as dangerous or worse, including older ones. I am careful around ALL homeless and will not engage directly with any of them. Learned how dangerous they all are back when I was homeless. I give $$$ to organizations that help them, but never directly to homeless people. And, yes, most are untreated mentally ill and that included me at the time since I was probably prodromal.
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not going to lie,
i fear people WITHOUT schizophrenia a GIGANTIC amount more than people WITH it at this point in time (seriously, it’s really bad and messes with my life a lot, every day.) i’ve just been through ■■■■ at the hands of people who don’t have it who were super inhumane to me about a lot of ultimately just hebephrenia-originated stuff i go through so…just drawing from that, really. lifelong, IRL and URL-i definitely Have misstepped along the way but so many have just Antagonized me over this stuff, it freaks me out, much as i ultimately get why. 
No I met many in hospitals. If I get mad I keep it to myself. Don’t really get mad when not psychotic. While psychotic get irritable but after taking my dose it’s a transformation for the next 7 hours.
Some of them, not all. I met some through the years and some became my friends and I wasn’t scared of them, they were actually quite nice people. I’ve had roommates and co workers who were schizophrenic and they were pretty cool. That said, when I was living downtown I had a few bad experiences with homeless schizophrenics where I was scared because they were acting violent and one screamed me for a couple minutes and acted very threatening. When I was in the hospital for 8 months I was scared of some of them and some I wasn’t scared of. It depends on how they act towards me. Generally, the ones I’ve met and gotten to know weren’t that scary.
I was afraid of my own self when I was psychotic
I didn’t think so, until my brother got it. He was super unpredictable and a little violent his first year with this disease. Nowadays, after several years of recovery, he is not that way anymore. I have zero fear towards him now. We got along swimmingly at Christmas dinner.
Schizophrenics are not all the same, it feels like quite a spectrum. On one hand you have the ones who hide it 100% and you can’t tell, then there’s the ones who deal with it but aren’t scary, then on the other extreme end, the unpredictable ones who never recover. Yes I fear these guys. I ran into a lot of them in Oakland, California. The ones who just don’t take any medicine ever and never get any better at all.
To be fair it seems like it’s like, 10% of schizophrenics that are like that long term though. The rest tend to improve after several years in my experience.
Do you fear other people with schizophrenia?
Yes. I’m afraid of people obeying command hallucinations mainly.
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I am sad to say, yes I’m afraid. I know personally how bad I can get off meds. How out of touch and mad and upset and paranoid and unpredictable. It’s a bad situation. I am grateful I am compliant, that zyprexa works mostly.
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