That is a bot. Not a person.
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Ok good to know so I basically wasted my time trying to keep them or it from getting banned oh well
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I don’t do social media. But schizophrenia would be the very last illness I’d ever fake on social media.
It made people treat me like ■■■■. I did the exact opposite. I browsed the internet. And used it to convince my doc to change it to ptsd. He treats me a whole lot better now we avoid the sz-word. 
The past diagnosis still follows me around…when renting a house…reporting with the police…going to an unfamiliar doc.
I’ve been guilty of freaking out over symptom checkers (when I had genuine issues). But schizophrenia of all illnesses gets you about the worst treatment. I’d recommend one to fake another.
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I’m guessing this means that @anon24748973 has never done the discourse tutorials.
Is this right discobot?
@discobot fortune
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Signs point to yes
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This really made me think. I hope they don’t. It makes me a bit nervous.
But I can’t really understand why. And how. Nobody I know without psychosis, understands the experience at all. Not even close. It’s such a different world. Hard to fake. I’ve tried a billion times to explain my experiences, and they don’t get it.
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I think many of us would like discobot banned. Unfortunately the Discourse forum software doesnt allow us to ban their annoying little bot. 
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Seeing people act out histrionic behavior when seeking attention is distressing.
I prefer to look away.
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I was accused of lying about my symptoms here. Though most of the times I was either unsure what’s happening or I had some difficulty in remembering certain things or details of past.
Overall I truly had psychosis and till this day sadly, I still have certain symptoms.
I believe there are people in this world who pretend to be ill(either they have a certain reason to do this, or it’s Münchausen’s syndrome) but most of the time people are def ill. If you have no reason to pretend why you should? Attention as an example is not a reason to pretend for many years. Though it’s only my opinion
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I thought that my schizophrenia had burned out one month ago so I quit 700 mg qutiapine in the time span of one week. I’ll tell you that I shouldn’t have done. I got so psychotic with voices and paranoia and delusions that I’ll never forget how evil the voices were.
A lesson for life when I got out of psychosis two days ago. Now I consider myself as treatment resistant and I’m not going to cheat with meds anymore. I’ll return to this forum on rare occasion in the future.
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I’ve been told I’m faking especially while manic there’s not enough awareness for what there saying if people truly understood they wouldn’t be so damn disrespectful and mean
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Who told you that you were faking? @anon24748973
My uncle he’s a ■■■■■■■ at times truthfully also I had a therapist who didn’t know a damn thing about bipolar disorder say I was doing it for the “attention” a therapist shouldn’t be so goddamn stupid tbh
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I think, @anon24748973, that regardless of what your uncle and therapist say, if your pdoc says you’re bipolar, then in all likelihood you probably are.
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Yeah i think it is a slippery slope, i mean there could be different reasons for inconsistencies too – people can have many variations from day to day, or from episode to episode, and factors like meds and side effects and mood – and here i don’t really know why someone would want to hang out here just to learn how to fake symptoms or something. Most people are here because they can relate to others here.
I can’t have faked it, there have been several times where mental health professionals (clinicians, psychologist) have spoken to me for 1.5 hours at different times and my speech is word salad and i’m talking about gods controlling me and the government spying on me and other things. My psychologist records our sessions. Psychiatrists said working diagnosis is psychosis, at least brief psychotic episode. And I would prefer not to have had to stop work and other things.
With faking cancer and other physical illnesses mentioned in the article (which is really insensitive and manipulative), i think a motive people do that is to get money donations, for supposed expensive medical treatment that is not real. I don’t know how one would convince people to give money by faking a mental illness.
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I wanna get positive and negative symptoms from this forum but can’t get my head round it.
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