I was diagmosed at the age of seventeen with schizophrenia it started out small because that’s as far as I know how it usually starts I had delusions started in high school I’d walk straight to class and tried to avoid eye contact I was always angry because I could or so I thought hear other kids’ s thoughts the way they looked at me I could hear their voices inside my head saying how disgusting I was I was gross they wished I wasn’t there so they didn’t have to see me just dark things like that and worse anyway I ended up graduating and my symptoms would slowly get changed over the years it stopped with other people’s voices and turned to mine like another me putting thoughts in my head then it changed darker it was my other me trying to sell my soul for just about anything and I would have to say no I wouldn’t out loud because saying it in my head wasn’t enough then I’d do this thing if I kept getting that feeling when it said it I don’t know how to say this I’d put pressure in my head without touching it till it went away it just continued like that for years till it stopped slowly and changed to what it has been advancing to up till now which is it started by putting thoughts in my head that wouldn’t go away until I shook my head then it progressed to spacing out a little bit here and there then it continued with memories and I’d start spacing out in my memories and if I didn’t want to think about it anymore I’d blink my left eye and it would go away but now i space out and it’s something I don’t want to remember I snap out of it by swearing at it to shut the f@#$ up incoherently and people asked me about it and I immediately get defensive and angry saying I don’t want to talk about it because I feel like it’s out of my control some times and that freaks me out anyway what I’m saying is does any part of this relate to anyone else
And now how you’re feeling? The meds are working?
Welcome home 
Those symptoms are very common here, the only cure are the medications and to deal with it there are therapy, building a healthy routine, exercise, music…
Try to be in a calm environment.
I know usa is very social country…but know that there are countries where people are very private and thats normal.
Also if you have had sz for less that two years then you are still in a process of getting used to it and the meds. I have had sz for 9 years and im starting to get used to it. Also adjusting my life …how social i am and where im social.
I’ve had it some I was about seventeen and I turn twenty seven next month and I have a son so a calm environment only happens when he’s sleeping lol
I try exercising sometimes but then again I have chronic depression so it’s really hard to find motivation when you just feel like crying all the time
I’ve been taking resperidone aka respiredal since I was seventeen it hasn’t helped it even gave me ginoclamastia as a side effect of it and it makes me uncontrollably groggy for three days if I miss taking it one day
I’ve been taking the same meds go almost ten years now and no they aren’t helping resperidone gave me one of the side effects which is ginoclamastia and I lived in a town where the cheapest drug was the one they give you
I was on a high dose of paliperidone, 12 mg, but I kept feeling a great deal of anxiety and head pain that I didn’t know how to treat, and it was bad enough to keep me homebound. I heard that ionized water can actually cure headaches and reduce anxiety so I started drinking a gallon of it (9.5 pH) a day, and I noticed improvements right from day one. Had to drink it 30 mins to an hour before or after a meal since the pH is high enough to affect stomach acid. It’s been 6 days so far and my anxiety and pain are low enough to actually go out and do things, even though I get depleted after a while outside. Still, it’s the only thing that has dramatically helped me.
I was drinking at least 2 litres of regular water a day before that, and it didn’t dent the pain.
Ionized water is pretty cheap, maybe $9 for 5 gallons, from a water store that sells it. If it’s medicinal, that’s not a high cost.
Ionized water machines are pretty expensive though, I bought a $500 one off ebay that is working well, though some cost in the thousands, and they’re not much different than the cheaper ones.
Okay well how did that medicine help your schytsophrenia did it all go away some of it or just enough to function in “normal” society
Just enough to function, I’m still healing day to day.
I don’t have much anxiety from schizophrenia anymore. I guess I just have depression. I used to be really stressed but I was taking supplements…I guess they helped.
I’ll bring it up to my doctor when I go see him to try those out to see if they work for me anything would be better than what I’m feeling
Welcome to the forum @Caveman5492.
To simply answer your question; take your meds, follow a routine and see your therapist on a daily basis.
Oh that’s cool I take quitiepine for my chronic depression it helps for the most part just used to take clonazapam
I don’t have a therapist but I’m gonna schedule to see one maybe on a weekly basis
I think it helps to have a therapist who shares notes with a psychiatrist so they can tell which med are helping and are willing to try different meds so you get the best results with least side effects.
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