Does SZ get progressively worse?

It feels like I am a targeted person and that they read thoughts and implant dreams. Over the course of the last few months I have seen two peoples heads morph into aliens. Also last night I heard my name “tyler, tyler, tyler.” It was pretty scary stuff.

I am most scared of getting shot by the police in a psychosis episode and going brain dead. If I really do have SZ it’s only getting worse and worse. It sucks, but I still believe I am being gang stalked.

Talk to your doctor. Have you been seen by a pdoc yet? This sounds like psychosis - honestly, how complicated would your explanation have to get to encompass both gang stalking and aliens? I don’t believe in gang stalking, but there have been points in my life when it would have seemed to explain what I was perceiving.

Psychosis ebbs and flows - certain things can make it progress at times, and then it can recede later on. You’re not doomed to seeing people turn into aliens or thinking you’re the target of some conspiracy for the rest of your life. But to give yourself the best chance of remission and recovery, you need to see a doctor and get on a treatment plan.

IT is just an idea. Just words. @Rhubot is right. Do the suggested do. Take ACTion.

  1. Get a copy of these books, read them and have your family read them, as well. (Torrey can be a bit totalistic and unwilling to see exceptions to his “rules” at times, but most of his book is really worth the effort to plough through.)
    http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Schizophrenia-6th-Edition-Family/dp/0062268856
    http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Family-Guide-Schizophrenia/dp/1593851804/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=schizophren0c-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=XKLY6NWSWJSQ3VYN&creativeASIN=1593851804

  2. Get properly diagnosed by a board-certified psychopharmacologist who specializes in the psychotic disorders. One can find them at…
    http://doctor.webmd.com/find-a-doctor/specialty/psychiatry andhttps://psychiatrists.psychologytoday.com/rms/
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  3. Work with that “psychiatrist” (or “p-doc”) to develop a medication formula that stabilizes their symptoms sufficiently so that they can tackle the psychotherapy that will disentangle their thinking.
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  4. The best of the psychotherapies for that currently include…
    DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
    MBSR – Welcome to the Mindful Living Blog
    MBCT - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice - PubMed
    ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
    10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing
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  5. the even newer somatic psychotherapies like…
    MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc
    SEPT – Somatic experiencing - Wikipedia
    SMPT – Sensorimotor psychotherapy - Wikipedia
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  6. or standard CBTs, like…
    REBT – Rational emotive behavior therapy - Wikipedia
    Schematherapy – Schema therapy - Wikipedia
    Learned Optimism – Learned optimism - Wikipedia
    Standard CBT – Psychotherapy | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness & scroll down
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  7. If you/she/he needs a professional intervention to get through treatment resistance, tell me where you live, and I will get back to you with leads to those services.
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  8. Look into the RAISE Project at Google.
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  9. Look for mental illness clubhouses in your area (which can be hugely helpful… but may also pose risks). Dig through the many articles at Google to locate and investigate them.

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