How severe is your sz/sza?
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- No noticeable psychotic symptoms
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- Mild psychotic symptoms
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- Moderate psychotic symptoms
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- Severe and/or torturous psychotic symptoms
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I don’t really know how to build polls. Any way, if you don’t want to vote on the poll, you don’t have to. You could explain by posting.
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I don’t know how I would classify it, I’ve seen those much worse off than I.
Moderate maybe, I still have daily voices, and some delusions, it’s sever enough to limit me on a daily basis, plus the usual assortment of negatives
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I based my answer on past history rather than just current situation . I’d like to say there’s been no noticeable psychosis, but would they really have moved me onto depot when I struggled to remember to take oral meds if that was the case.? I would say my symptoms overall are mild , though my social interaction difficulties are severe.
I was probably more ill when younger.
I don’t know how bad my symptoms are/were compared to other people. But there is definitely something wrong with my brain that only medication can fix.
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I don’t know! I withdrew my vote. I realised I accidentally posted in the diagnosed sz section. Also, I have no clue. In my worst times I had severe and torturous symptoms, but overall it seems mild now, in the sense that I can sort-of-function despite symptoms.
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Off meds I am an absolute frightening terror and I suffer terribly with extreme psychosis.
I love my meds.
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I voted for the most severe category. I am incapable of leaving the house on my own and I battle constant paranoia. the Haldol keeps my voices down to once or twice a month, but prior to that it was every day, plus visuals. My pdoc has listed me as permanently disabled.
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On risperidone my psychotic symptoms are mild but off meds my psychotic symptoms are severe.
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I voted severe
the thing is no one would know how severe without insight into someone else\s schizophrenia to compare
i had a sister who was 12 years unremitting severe and untreatable schizophrenia
i was not as bad as she was for my first 10 years+ with this illness
paranoia and telepathy and the government, secret cameras, hallucinations
- until a while after my sister was killed by a car when hitchhiking -then the shut hit the fan for me a few years later
then tactile hallucinations, violent command, psychogenic polydipsia, fixed beliefs that put me at risk, etc
and sex mad because of being 30
tell me if this is a way of quantifying it
it might not be right
I was left psychotic before for over a year without medication. By the end of it I had word salad and was found by a member of the public wondering the streets in a different city. I had no shoes on and my feet were full of glass. I was visually and auditory hallucinating and I was completely lost. That was the worst I have ever been. I had also lost a lot of weight as I stopped eating meat for months, as I thought the souls of the dead animals were entering my body and talking to me.
I originally was sent to a medical hospital where they locked me in isolation for three days because I was so disruptive, and did loads of tests as they thought it was something else. I then got bused to a mental hospital where I was given Olanzapine 20mg and that zombified me for two years.
I tried coming off it as I realised the side effects and had several more relapses until I am now on Amisulpride and stable again. It was a mess, but things are better now.
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I relate to this - the absconding with nothing on apart from a tshirt and tracksuit bottoms - not anything else
word salad, shouting at strangers, sleeping rough, soul exchange, demons from the cigarettes entering my lungs and i had help with that from an imaginary companion animal, demons shooting out of the yin channels in my feet having sex with everyone else’s
i’ve been stable 13 years later this year
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I was left to be psychotic for a couple of years - before they finally admitted i was mis-diagnosed. And i lacked insight - so wasnt even aware the mad stuff i was doing wasnt normal.They just thought i was drunk most of the time. Apart from the odd hiccup - i do pretty well these days on the meds.
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Currently on my medication I do not have any noticible psychotic symptoms.
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I guess pretty severe. I’ve never hallucinated except hearing some stuff a few times, mainly while falling asleep. I questioned my sanity several times. I panic when I have obsessive thoughts that I live in a computer simulation. I feel like I’ve time traveled in my past lives and alternative realities. I sometimes feel like nothing is real. I had distorted vision and perceptions and dissociation 24/7 for 5-6 years. I had severe negative symptoms and depression. I get paranoid and have delusions. My delusions are treatment resistant. I look and act normal but think weird things. I also talk and believe in weird things like simulation theory, time travel, aliens, and conspiracies.
I believe I’ve lived countless lives where everything is exactly the same or very similar. Sort of like a causal loop or time loop. In the beginning, my memory is wiped just like everyone else’s but I slowly remember over time by deja vu, visions, and memories.
I believe there are many forms of time travel: mind time travel, wormholes, reincarnation, and actual machines.
I believe I’m stuck in the past. Like I keep reliving my life over and over again as a mentally ill person. I figure my consciousness is being transferred or I gain consciousness backwards in time. It’s like reality resets constantly.
I feel like I really experienced bad things happen to me countless times. I guess you can say I’m paranoid.
I feel like something is preventing me from remembering my past or going back in time and reliving my life as a baby from inception. I really want to escape this time loop or causal loop. I want to experience a completely different life and a completely different, better destiny. It’s not fair that I’m constantly schizophrenic and that I keep making the same stupid choices in life. I deserve much better.
I’m dealing with it. It was bad but it’s getting better every year.
I’d say my psychotic symptoms were mostly mild but my depression was severe. All my hospitalisations (9 of them) were due to severe depression that made me feel suicidal and cut myself (whether on or off meds). Never hospitalised primarily for voices or delusions although I had them with the depression.
I voted moderate, but after reading some of these replies and if we take into account previous history, I think maybe I’m severe. I’ve had about a dozen severe psychotic breaks and even on a good deal of meds I’ve got a lot of breakthrough symptoms and negatives are overwhelming most days.
But I manage. I’ve learned to push through. So maybe that makes things not as bad.
Most of my psychiatrists consider me high-functioning, but my condition is moderate. I’ve been hospitalized 10 times for either being suicidal or it’s my command voices telling me to kill. It’s either the meds stopped working(Invega or anti-depressant ). When I was first hospitalized, the voices were very sinister( slice the person in tiny pieces, smother them with a pillow, you can be a savior if you kill everybody in the store, kill them in the shower,) and now they say you’re too stupid to be an arsonist or burn the house down. I don’t listen to them. But I’m at the stage where I can work part time and go to school( I’m taking Human Biology and Poetry right now) part time as well.
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Mine is severe the voices and the psychological pain mainly.