I had these things and couldn’t function properly. I cut my hair weird, cut my arm several times, danced down the road, wore my pyjamas all day and talked to pictures and believed evil spirits were trying to infiltrate my mind. I don’t think that was mild.
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Psychiatrists might not always agree but they all think alike.
You seem to put a lot of energy into existential thinking. I just wonder, what’s in it for you to analyze these things? What positive do you get out of it?
A little knowledge and a degree of integrity in my dealings with the world. I refuse to dampen my critical faculties in exchange for a little contentment- the contentment not of pigs but of slaves.
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But I don’t know of healthy people that get diagnosed of schizophrenia by many doctors.
Oh okay, I was honestly curious. Thanks for answering.
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I guess I’m not altogether healthy, but I am sane.
It is the same, why would they say that you have psychotic symptoms if you have not?
Fine then, why do you insist on hanging out with a group of Schizophrenics? If you are so normal what are you doing here?
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I’ve always had strong positive symptoms
Nope but I had several full blown episodes of psychosis but never got the sz or sz affective diagnosis. They said it’s bipolar cuz I’m too high functioning. This leads me to believe the diagnosis process is very imperfect because some days I am absolutely not high functioning
I’ve never said I was normal (e.g. “obsessive weirdo”), in fact, I know perfectly well that I’m not. What I’m arguing is that I’m sane, and that I take issue with the way neurodiversity has become medicalised. What am I doing here? I’ve been branded with a damning label that appeals to biological categories but that is ultimately rooted in dominant (yet historically contingent) ideology. I come here to join forces with my fellow diagnosees.
It’s just their way of thinking about the world. I’m aware, though, that my answers are becoming fuzzier as the thread progresses.
I entirely agree.
I think your in the ballpark. Maybe the cheap seats but it’s about function anyways. If these " strange " ideas or thoughts impact your basic function then it’s a problem.
I don’t do voices. Rarely if ever although I used to hallucinate music. Still. I have/had a central voice/thought that commented on everything I did. Yes I went psychotic but it wasn’t traditional sz till I was dxed.
Positive symptoms are just that. You don’t have to be psychotic to hear voices.
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I agree, especially seeing “function” is entirely a social construction.
Yeap that’s what the world wants. It wants us to function so we can pay taxes but that’s a whole other can of worms lol.
But basic functions like , eating well, cleanliness etc is outside of that though
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Well it’s a bit different. If your symptoms are stopping you doing what most folks do than that is an issue.
It’s usually pretty easy to spot someone on drugs/alcohol or psychosis. Their thoughts and responses are pretty indicative of something untoward going on. There’s a big difference even with things like anxiety and depression. They aren’t in the normal scheme of things and that is the problem.
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It’s a slippery slope, yes.
But without medication many of us wouldn’t be remotely able to function in today’s society.
That can mean many things, like being employable. Or it can simply mean to not hallucinate on a constant basis.
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That’s what I think too. I do have unusual opinions but I don’t exhibit any sign of thought disorder, paranoid ideation, anxiety or depression. And I can act perfectly normal.