Quite a lot, actually. Schizophrenia is 1 in 100 (or 1 in 300). So it’s not that uncommon.
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I’ve been going to day treatment(kinda a clubhouse) since 2012. I’ve met a lot. The first schizophrenic I hung out with was someone from this site. He lived in my hometown and we scheduled a meet up. I moved back years later. We’re friends to this day and he even stays the night from time to time. I got a couple other schizophrenics that I do stuff with outside of day treatment. I prefer their company to regular people.
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I have met 2 people that I knew had schizophrenia. Both of them before I knew that I had schizophrenia. But you cant always tell who has it so I may have met 20 people with it for all I know.
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My mom, maybe 4 people not in a hospital. People in hospitals.
Nil I have never spoken to one face to face reason scared.
My mother is schizophrenic, neighbour, homeless man who I give food/money, man who lives in front of my home and likely many more in the neighbourhood. I regularly see people talking to themselves out aloud and pointing at hallucinations, so there’s high level of schizophrenia here.
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I used to meet some when I lived in Essex. I’ve met none since moving to Wiltshire in 2017.
I’ve always known plenty from acute hospitalizations and from day hospitals. Also my son was sz, and a few of my past, female lovers were either sz, bipolar or schizoaffective.
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I’ve had friends, neighbors and people I worked with who were schizophrenic. They were generally markedly nicer than the so called normal people I grew up with. I had a girlfriend who was schizophrenic. She had some weird ideas but she was sweet and pretty and genuinely liked me.
I’m sure there were a lot in the hospital I stayed in for 8 months. I didn’t really know for sure except for a couple of obviously sick people.
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There were some in public I now realize that were actually were in psychosis, but didn’t know at the time. Hey I was in public and didn’t realize I had it either
Maybe we just blend in, or probably we don’t mix in public much now that we’re on the mend
I’ve met more than a few.
I’ve met plenty. A few people I’ve known through school later developed psychosis. I met some people from MH support groups. And I’ve met a couple of others from living in supported accommodation.
Not especially schizophrenia but mental illness. I met a few schizophrenics as well. I think it’s because most of are on a pension and don’t work anymore. We have like minded interest.
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