I was taking 20mg at first. But now im taking 15mg, only because i didnt have enough energy while taking 20mg. Im going to add on another med though.
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Ok, good luck and keep trying. You will find the right treatment eventually. 
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What do you attribute your hospitalizations to? And what do you attribute your delusions about the TV to?
And what do you tell yourself about taking anti-psychotic medication?
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If you’ve been diagnosed by a psychiatrist, more than likely you are indeed schizophrenic. I suppose there is always the possibility that it could be another related disorder, but your delusionary beliefs certainly seem to point in the direction of one psychotic disorder or another.
I’m glad that you are questioning your beliefs and framing them with the term delusions, but please keep it to this one thread.
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- I was diagnosed with it.
- A friend helped me reason out my delusions logically. Nothing logical about them. Not scientifically possible at all. Even if it was possible it was ludicrous that an alien civilization would jump galaxies just to anal probe me with nanobots. I’m not that special.
That was the foundation of my insight (made possible by meds lowering the volume in my head enough that I could sort of think again).
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Nothing is forever. I got over my delusions by agreeing with the doctor though I didn’t really doubt them, just saying it helped. I do believe in some phenomenon like psychic experiences, most everyone experiences that. I didn’t know how to handle it and thought it was worse than it was. Women are very intuitive, I know, and body language plays a role.
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Thanks, i hope so.
Well its kind of personal, but its really just that i feel persecuted like the whole country is against me. I take my medicine to keep me calm while dealing with all of this.
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Ok, glad the medicine helped.
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So listening and believing the doctor is what helped you, great.
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You know you’re schizophrenic when a psychiatrist tells you so.
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I think voices is the most obvious indication.
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Sometimes it still feels real for me even when l am on meds. And l have gone through this time and time again. Its so weird how l will go batsh*t crazy again and again.
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I can completely relate.
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The hallucinations were kind of impossible to chalk up to anything else. The fact that I had delusions as well sealed the deal I guess.
If I were to be diagnosed today it might be something different, because most of my symptoms are hidden to the casual observer.
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Meds help reduce the voices. That’s all I need to be diligent on meds.
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I think I heard somewhere that if you are psychotic for six months you are considered schizophrenic.
I had an AA sponsor who once talked about “not being on the beam, and not knowing you’re not on the beam, because you are not on the beam.” That fits me pretty well at times. It always seemed to me like I was on the beam, and everyone was trying to push me off. If you’re getting a lot of feedback that you’re not acting right you should probably give heed to it and try to change it.
I mean if you are diagnosed technically you are a schizophrenic. However psychotic disorders present differently in everyone so it is better to describe your experience in your own words then to try to match it to a diagnosis in the DSM. I think that everything I post online is being logged by the FBI but it doesn’t affect my quality of life at all. In fact my paranoid thought process is why I have been interested in cryptography and programming since childhood.
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If you wake up in a hospital bed and you walk down a narrow, dimly lit corridor that smells like urine in a hospital gown with your ass hanging out, and there’s a bunch of other wild-eyed, bedraggled people milling around you talking to themselves and you all have that glint of recognition in your eyes, then most likely you’re schizophrenic.
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