Do any of you ever feel like you are two different people, one evil one good and when you have a guilty feeling or self doubt you grin evilly at yourself? I saw a writhing deer in the ditch. It was just hit by a car and I started laughing. I love animals. I am a vegetarian.
1 Like
What’s wrong with me?
Inappropriate laughing or responding to things can be a part of sz. It’s not like you even find it funny it’s just how people react with sz. It is common in the literature and it doesn’t lessen you as a person. It’s just sz.
5 Likes
I laughed my head off hearing that an old woman’s car fell off the car ferry here with her in it
I couldn’t stop laughing
It’s not evil it’s a reaction
Don’t know why but it is a thing for schizophrenics
1 Like
I don’t laugh but I’m indifferent towards stuff like that. I think that’s pretty normal
I’m a pretty good person. The worst things I do is watch TV shows.
Inappropriate reactions are a well-documented symptom in many sz sufferers. No need to feel ashamed. If you’re a vegetarian then hats off to you! Besides I don’t think there was anything you could have done to help that animal, unless you are also a vet.
I thought I was a pretty good person too, until I realized something was in “All” of us that could possibly make us kill a loved one.
There are no good people or bad people. Only people who do good things and people who do bad things.
1 Like
No. People just like to portray me that way and a real evil twin does everything they lie about.
@sonja inappropriate laughter is a symptom of schizophrenia and bipolar.
I once laughed when my friend just gave me the sad news that his father passed away from pancreatic cancer.
Sounds evil but I really liked the guy.
It was an inappropriate reaction.
Even though I felt sadness over his death it was an inappropriate reaction.
Sounds evil but it really isn’t.
It’s like an inappropriate knee jerk reaction.
I’m still ashamed of how I reacted though.
1 Like
So what they are saying is that we have defective brains. Sucks. Nothing good about sz 
1 Like
It’s also seen with bipolar.
Didn’t know this.
Doesn’t help with my diagnosis confusion.
1 Like
From Wikipedia:
This suggests that regional brain abnormalities linked to inappropriate affect, have a genetic foundation.
1 Like
What everyone else said its a reaction from your schizophrenia to laugh at sad things I do it too its very bothersome I know so I understand you
2 Likes
I do it too. Maybe emotions tax my schizophrenic brain too much.
1 Like
I no longer laugh inappropriately, not with Risperdal.
I did it when I wasn’t on an AP and I did it while I was on Abilify.
2 Likes
Meds definitively reduced it. I cant remember the last time it happened but now on Risperdal I have no emotions and flat affect. Cant get pleasure from things I used to get pleasure from before sz, like studying, going to the gym, etc
1 Like
I think meds suppress our emotions.
1 Like
Yeah very few things give me pleasure.
1 Like