I don’t have schizophrenia. I have severe bipolar 1 with psychotic features and I am literally barely surviving. I was however able to make it through school and work but it seems to have gotten worse with age.
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Me being a disabled vet I’ve tried to get care outside of waiting for the VA to get their heads out of their asses, but they shot down my application to recieve repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for my depression. I’m trying to get rTMS, it really is supposed to just vanish depression and it’s a long process but could really help my life, or not…but that’s because I haven’t been able to try it and I’ve been trying to get it through the VA since 2015…I’m about to write congress to make the orders stand.
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In my area, doctors are using IV Ketamine to treat depression. I had a conversation with my old doctor who pretty much only does the ketamine thing now and he said he’s had great results. Maybe try looking into that. I would do it myself but for some reason it isn’t indicated for what I have
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I have schizophrenia-undifferentiated type. I think I live a fairly normal life after I accepted a life of medication. I also believe some people may not choose a path of medication. I work part time for a mental health oriented nonprofit. Years ago I had serious delusions that could not have been construed as normal. I grew out of that phase so there is hope. I still have irrational fears of driving for example.
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Ive been suffering for a while. I used to drink alot to cope with the pain but it just made things worse I used to smoke weed to get in touch with spirits that may enlighten and guide me but they only deceived me leading me astray so now I study look for answers and hope for a better tomorrow I am trying to get off the medication due to side effects so I can be clean of drugs and their dangers I will survive and escape this he’ll I will find peace and love I will end this internal conflict and find the truth find the answer find my life.
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I know what you are talking about. Find a way not to do it. Rid yourself of this evil and find unity find love. I wish you the best. May you find peace and not sorrow not suffering or death but life.
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On a scale of 1-10 I would rate my sz as a 7.
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Maybe I would describe my case as just “full” or “maximum” schizophrenia as opposed to describing as severe.
I have a 100% VA Disability Rating and didn’t ask for it or expect it. They just eventually concluded that “rating” for my case.
It makes some sense because the certain cognitive deficits never go away or get better; they’re just there and always have been there. I was probably born with Sz and was just waiting to come to the forefront in early adulthood, as if those are typically the years the “overload” threshold gets reached.
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For 33 years, I had very severe sza. Now, with the proper medications and coping skills, I am getting along very well.
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Sz is always severe …among those some manages to work while other are jobless…
i have chronic…!!!
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I had very severe sza for 33 years. I had paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, and suicidal depression. I take meds and use alternative therapies for it.
The alternative therapies I use are:
- Yoga
- Art therapy
- Meditation twice a day
- Church attendance weekly
- Prayer twice a day
- Fish oil capsules three times a day with meals
- Bible reading. One chapter a day every day.
I firmly believe in combining western medicine with alternative, holistic medicine. It works for me. Using this approach, my sza has gone from severe to extremely mild.
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I spend a lot of time trying not to think about it.
But I have chronic schizophrenia and its not going to to away.
Like you said I tried college couldn’t handle it.
I got threatened the other day
Some idiot threatened to stab me and my dog the police were involved.
It’s knocked me a bit.
People are cruel when your broken
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Some of my medical records say that I have schizophrenia and some of them say that I have schizoaffective. So, really, I’m not sure. My main pdoc says I’m schizoaffective. But, other doctors have said that I’m schizophrenic. Should I believe my primary pdoc?
Yes, people are cruel. That’s why NOBODY at my assisted living facility knows of my diagnosis. Except the Administrator and the nurse.
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i have just sz
because i have a friend with treatment resistent sz and its hell
he was taking 60mg of olanzapine and it helped only for a while
he tried every med out there including clozapine
no help
and thats just like half of the story
it’s a huge dose u must be kidding…???
i know im not kidding
he have epilepsy also and some damage in the brain from taking a hit by a car when he tried to commit suicide
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He who U…???
I would consider schizoaffective, definitely. In my case, it’s due to “underlying Bipolar” but I’m mostly just schizophrenic. But if any doctor (especially your main one) says SZA, then you definitely have Bipolar or something like that in addition to SZ. You’re probably mostly just schizophrenic, like me. It’s all valid. An official diagnosis like SZA is not given on a whim. You know? There are specific signs they look for when they are diagnosing.
I guess you could say i have severe schizophrenia because I am on public assistance and the voices never really went away no matter what drug I took expect briefly with Latuda. So I am no longer in achievement mode but in survival mode and haven’t worked in 6 years. I am not confined to a mental hospital so it could be worse.