In 2016 i had a psychotic episode for no reason and for a year was sick in bed with pain in my head. The Drs say it’s schizophrenia and I’m on haloperdol injection monthly. But I don’t exhibit unusual belliefs. I’ve never heard voices. But what makes my life bad is I’ve never been the same since the psychotic episode and always get flashbacks to when It started. And how I could have prevented it. What should I do
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Trust your doctors. you are on meds is why you don’t have unusual beliefs. stick to working with your pdoc.
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But I’ve never had unusual bellifs or paranoia
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you said you had a psychotic episode…now you don’t…it’s as simple as that.
If you could even call it a psychotic episode. Plus I’ve had them in the past and got over them never had any schizophrenia then my one at 16 was brought on by marijuwana. Got over that until 21 when I had a second one due to either anti deppresents. If it was a psychotic episode it lasted for a year sick in bed.
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Take a look at what happens to unmedicated sz people by reading the family schizophrenia page. You know how many people only wake up when they are homeless or in jail?? You are not the doctor. If he says you showed signs, you probably have something meds can treat. Some people will end up living their entire lives in insanity if untreated. No gf, no job… You don’t want that.
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I already have no job and no gf I was going fine before one psychotic episode that happend over night sz doesn’t happen over night
Actually, it does. If you don’t know what is going on, just trust your doctor. Gf and job doesn’t even begin to describe the problems with sz. Untreated sz is linked too poorer functioning, more treatment resistance over time. It can make your life hell. Just follow the doctor’s orders. Don’t make a big deal about meds, just take them and forget about them the rest of the day. It is really not that hard to do.
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I don’t just take my meds and become symptom free. I always fell weird since the episode not paranoid or hearing voices I’ve never heard voices in my life
I have never heard voices nor hallucinated but I still have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. I was in denial for a long time regarding my diagnosis but have learnt to accept it now. It’s a tough diagnosis for any of us to accept.
I would bring this up and discuss with your doctor. You can always get another doctor’s opinion too to “double-check” your situation. Yes, I also know schizos that never hear voices - and as far as I know - there used to be 5 different types of schizophrenia. You should be open to your doctor and ask why you was diagnosed to have it.
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I’d ask your doctor about it. And see what they think. What were your symptoms during your episode? What happened to make them call you schizophrenic?
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I would add that the form my own illness has taken over the years has changed. I had a tremendous initial episode with bizarre delusions of mythical and New Age stuff, but no voices necessarily. But now, 27 yrs later, I hear voices coming from outside of my head, and mostly from appliances. And my delusions are so insidiously clever that I can talk about them and be believable to myself and others. Please be careful.
Not all sz is the same.
There is a girl who was hospidalized twice. She stole a truck and drove it without ever having drivers licence. They took her to the mental hospidal.
She ended up getting married and having a baby. She could go ap free BUT…
if you ask my opinion…she was sicker than me…sicker than any schizophrenic i have seen. One can have sz and seem totally healthy. It doesnt mean they are healthy. Sz is an invisible disease.
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Well what happend was I had a bi polar and took strong anti deppresents and they made me manic and made me not sleep and I became psychotic crying screaming pains in my head panic things like that and was sick for a year and because I was 21 I think they just suspected it was a schizophrenia episode.
If you stay for many months with zero voices/delusions/paranoia you can ask your pdoc to slowly try to get off meds.
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