I don’t tink anyone in IRL knows or understands
D full scale of a breakdown
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What means IRL ?
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in real life @anon53623539
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I would imagine that it is difficult, unless you know sz or people with similar disorders irl, for most people to fully grasp what sz entails. They have not had these experiences.
That’s a good reason to keep this site around. A lot of people here with similar experiences who understand, at least to some extent, the issues that each other have had.
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I would feel weird, for example , telling most people in real life that I used to gather, boil and drink rainwater for fear of poisoning from other sources, but it’s a story that I regularly tell here, because I realize that many people will understand the mental state I was in at the time and get why I did that.
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I don’t think they could ever fully understand but my therapist knows me pretty well 
but even I keep secrets from her
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God Knows what i went through God knows i dont remember most of it
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The most empathy ive recieved was on an acute ward. A younger girl found on a door step once upon a time. Told me how awful it was, to experience psychosis. She was sorry I went through it too. It was the way she said it, not in a pitying or patronising or pretentious way. But a very relateable way, and recognizably we understood each other with very few words. It seemed the most real communication ive had in person. With someone who just understood immediately the pain and terror.
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My doctors.
My wife.
My therapists.
My close friends.
My AA family.
They get it.
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for us to suffer tis, we must be kind of special imo
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I heard somewhere that everyone experience a breakdown, but the majority don’t have to be hospitalised or take medication. We are kind of the weak ones who couldn’t made it through to the other side of the breakdown (psychosis) without treatment.
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I dont talk much about it.
I read books about it. Take my meds.
My doctors can understand me.
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It’s a lonely feeling to be the only one who has been through an extraordinary amount of pain for seemingly forever and it’s also a false assumption.
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I remember relating to a girl in the ward about psychosis we were both describing the same experiences but hers was meth induced and mine was schizophrenia
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Some people get cancer at 13 and I’ve no idea of what that is like and still I know it’s shite.
It’s simplistic saying you went through this heartache. What did you do to get over it? What did you do to improve your life?
It’s plenty good to borrow others thoughts on things and regurgitate them on the boards but please stop with the simplistic bombarding of the website with useless threads! You wear thin sometimes.
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All of you schizophrenic people understand to some extent.
But no one understands fully.
We all had unique experiences
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Yeah I don’t go around telling people how I anointed myself with standard kitchen olive oil because I thought I was chosen. Btw, that stuff got in my eyes, not recommended
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Only on the days that end with Y.
Also difficult to get out of bedding.
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Yes actually. For so long I kept my issues a secret but i can proudly say i found a group of supportive loving friends and a wonderful fiance who know about my illness and love me regardless. My family of course knows too. I do not think it is possible to understand the intensity of the experience of psychosis or any mental illness really unless you have lived it yourself. Which i actually did have one friend who had a psychotic disorder too and it was really nice because she DID understand and i understood her and we could talk about it with each other in a way we couldn’t with others. But we ended up falling out of touch and she does her own thing now.
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@san_pedro it’s spelled THROUGH. There is no w in through. Sorry but I had to say it. It’s been bugging me.
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