i get asked what sz is like by people but i dont know what to say…how would you describe sz to a normie
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When my friend asked me about it, I’ve told a him that it’s a spectrum of illnesses that is characterized mainly with malfunction of the brain’s reward system, resulting in sensing things that aren’t there.
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Constant low level phencyclidine intoxication…
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You really can’t explain every one of our experiences with schizophrenia because they are all different. I also must say that truly trying to explain it is like someone who is starving explaining their experience to someone who has eaten well every day of their life, someone who has been through a war to someone who has never heard a gun shot in anger, someone who is blind to someone who has always had good vision. You really don’t know it unless you’ve been there. Besides the normie may be too busy fooling with their cell phone to pay attention to you anyway.
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I spent my lifetime trying to describe sz to normies and never succeeded.
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‘Something you’ll never understand’.
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I probably wouldn’t bother.
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It’s different for everyone. But I describe mine as I see and hear things others can’t also it makes me very apathetic. That’s just the stock answer I give when I get pressed about it. I’m not very open about it in public.
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That’s a good one.
So true.
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If someone asked me that question, I’d say it’s hallucinations and delusions and also negatives such as depression and anhedonia. But yeh, I’d add that everyone’s experience of it is unique.
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Nothing like the movies/TV shows. I won’t kill you. I am nonviolent. I am pretty much like any other human being. I just perceieve things differently. Also, I can see through lies. “I see through the lies of the Jedi!” — Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader
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Like a hpuse that conhousestantly burns fire.
It’s like living in a computer mode, or simulation, that seems real to you, everything about this life seems real… but to everyone else you talk to about what you hear, see, feel, know, smell, taste, they look at you and say “??? Are you feeling ok?”
At that point, you do not know what to say because reality to a SCH or SAD patient seems real to them and us. To normies as you put it, they do not understand what it is like. I would tell a normie to imagine what delusions of persecution, grandeur, complete paranoia, and loss of hope in life would feel like if they occurred simultaneously… It is like the thalamus of the brain cannot filter the noise out and the signal/noise ratio decreases (Too much noise).
There is no ultimate cure to get rid of it, but newer SGAs are improving daily, like Lurasidone. I take 40 mg at night and then fall asleep and I feel the best I have ever felt in my life, period. There is hope, remember that fellow SCH and SAD patients.
Bottom line: To a normie I would say “I would never wish that one of my worst enemies have SCH or SAD because it is that miserable.”
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Yup, personally, I’d save my precious energy.
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Interesting question. Off the top of my head…I would say it’s a brain disease (yes?) that for me personally offers a more authentic version of the nature of things then reality does. The experience can be confusing, exhilarating, depressing, black out inducing roller coaster ride. Simply put though, it’s just a life where you question everything intensely and of course experience sensory input that is unknown to most.
Atleast for me that’s what I would say. Probably not a good way to explain schizophrenia as an overall illness. But the above is all I know enough to mention.
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Sz is…
Like having another person sharing your brain and taking over control and swallowing you up(positive symptoms).
Like walking in fog and mud (negative symptoms)
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