Hi everyone. I’m new to the forum, and also new to my own symptoms. I’ve not been formally diagnosed, but have been experiencing hallucinations (visual, auditory, and tactile) on and off since August. Anyway, I just wanted to know if anyone else shared my experience on this particular instance. I hear voices telling me to do things or telling me that people are going to hurt me, and then I hear the same voice saying, “You’re just doing this for attention… you’re making this up…” and it makes me doubt whether I’m actually experiencing symptoms. Does anyone else experience voices that deny their own existence or invalidate your experiences? Is this common?
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Oh man, I’m sorry that this ■■■■ happened to you. It gets better, I suggest seeing a psychiatrist though. To answer your question, yes, my voices have told me that I’m faking it before, they have also told me that I am psychotic and have even used the word “schizophrenia”. My voices are tons of fun- just kidding, I kill them with tranquilizers.
Voices say all sorts of things, don’t listen to them. Just disregard them. Whatever you do, don’t do what they say- that is legal insanity. I’m a junior in college studying psychology and I have had the illness since my senior year of high school.
Good luck and do seek professional help. At least see a therapist if you are opposed to medication, but please at least talk to a psychiatrist about treatment options. Fortunately for me, my antipsychotic has minimal side effects, just leg tremors and mild sedation that gets cancelled out by my coffee habit and natural insanity. If a normal person were to take Geodon, at my dose, they would just go to sleep in thirty minutes and wake up really groggy like eight hours later and never want to take the pill again. Obviously we need our meds- Im speaking for all of us on here who take antipsychotics.
Virtually every symptom has been experienced by someone else, I have been on this forum for over a year and I have heard all sorts of symptoms, even the ones I have, which my psychiatrist calls “misperceptions”- in addition to the three familiar voices in my head, and the delusion which are persecutory and grandiose interlaced with each other, I see and hear real people say things which I know they probably didn’t. Others experience this too. For example, people on a talk show talking about me- that has happened in gyms where they had a TV, I dont watch TV otherwise because it is brain rot.
I would love to help you out, I myself am very highly functioning and I like to help people who can use my advice. I am surprised that you arent in agony, my first few months were not a fun time and I was legally insane for a pretty fair amount of time. The fact that you are on a schizophrenia forum and just posted in the section labled “diagnosed” means that you are legally sane, so don’t rob a liquor store thinking you can just get a slap on the wrist because you’re crazy 
Not that I robbed a liquor store or anything… 
But I did assault some people back before I was diagnosed and aware that I was schizophrenic.
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Hi, thanks for your response! I’m already seeing a psychiatrist, and have been taking an antipsychotic for the past three years. (I’ve been taking it because it’s also an anti-anxiety.) I’m actually in a dual-diagnosis treatment center for my anorexia right now, so I have a lot of psychiatrists and therapists looking after me. I’m posting here because I’ve been home for the past week (I’m going back to the center tomorrow) and no one else at the center has hallucinations.
I am pretty scared of what the voices tell me to do, but I can usually tell that they’re not real. I just wanted to reassure myself that these are real symptoms. The first time I had hallucinations, I was in a psych hospital and the doctors there said I just have an overactive imagination and that I was too young for schizophrenia or psychotic symptoms. I probably won’t rob a liquor store
All it does is Crackle…up from the the depths of the can.
code circle, no offense intended.
Yeah I used to get that all the time. “You’re not REALLY sick” and all that jazz. More so I get ones that invalidate my morality. Like I’ll do something nice for someone and they’ll say “You just did that to try to prove you’re a good person.” “You’re only good when it’s convenient for you to be, you’re really terrible.”