How responsible (at blame) do you think you are

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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boring question

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@anon48059102
You don’t have to respond. Please be kind.

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I feel more responsible on my medication.

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Hmmm…though one. I FEEL 100% responsible, but i dont think i AM always 100% responsible, although that might sound weird.

An example: my first psychosis happened because some people knowingly drove me over the edge and i couldnt escape. If something horrible had happened, i had felt deep shame and guilt, but also rationally thought they hold a part of the responsibility for my deeds during that psychosis.

If i would get psychotic now, i think i am 100% responsible because i failed to prevent relapse.

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I don’t feel bad about anything I have ever done. But I take action to avoid being in the bad situations I have been in in the past. Mainly by taking medication at an effective dose.

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When I am sick I am not fully capable of controlling myself so I don’t feel fully responsible for my actions.

I AM responsible for telling someone I trust or that might be impacted by my actions that I am losing control.

I have much better responses during my psychosis when I tell my husband that I am losing control.

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Not a single damn bit.

Not only do I feel no guilt, I take tremendous pride in functioning in spite of problems that would have (and actually have) flattened others.

:blush:

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On medication I am 100% responsible. However, off of medication I often have no memory of what I am doing. So I don’t trust myself.

I now understand what not guilty by reason of insanity means. Before I thought that was a load of BS.

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Almost all of the time I feel responsible for my behaviors. Very rarely I get upset and blame something I did on another source. It’s a thin line between what is me and what is “chance.” But I prefer to believe I am in complete control.

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What this says to me: With all the shortfalls of life that disappoint us, we should not blame it on anyone or anything. To add to this, I would say the blaming causes bad feelings all around. The writer has expressed this artistically, of course.
My past is full of blaming. And I think I blame the wrong person.

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I am not responsible for having the illness, but am entirely responsible for how I move forward with it, especially with my insight intact.

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I smoked weed but I’m quite sure I was already having symptoms of psychosis beforehand.

But I still feel a lot of guilt from smoking all that weed. I wish I didn’t.

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Totally agree done out of character thing when suffering severe pyscotic episode threatened next door neighbour who was a friend of mine never done nothing like this before or since.I was then sectioned for my actions but i have been syptom free for over 8 years taking meds.Have held various jobs, but now run my own business and iam happier than ever.I do not feel responible as i feel it was my illness that made me act this was 100%

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I always feel responisble for my actions now im medicated. I will not take responsibilty tho, for my crimes i got arrested and done time for when psychotic. Took them 6 years to finally admit i was mis-diagnosed - back then i was then left on my own to carry on with no insight doing daft things attracting the attention of the police - with no medical intervention.

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I don’t think anyone is to blame for sz. It’s genetic

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I am generally responsible for my actions but sometimes I go out of control

For example my husband and I had an argument on Wednesday and he tried my patience and I was keeping calm all the time

Then suddenly I snapped and began screaming repeatedly and throwing books and pillows at him and wailed over and over at the top of my voice. It was unearthly and involuntary and I had no control over it until it was over

We were both shocked and he and I both think my sza had a part to play

We can’t blame others for our actions but sometimes illness causes lack of control. It a tough question!

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We are all sitting in the same boat. Of course we are all to blame. We can’t do better than that.
Tell a fish he can climb a tree and he will feel disabled to the rest of his life.

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