■■■■ off this is psychosis not a mild case of anxiety there is no coping skills that can make u live life normally while hallucinating 24/7 than this person goes on to tell me " you said you were hearing voices right maybe it is just your conscious" no not at all there is a huge difference between a conscious and actually hearing voices that sound so real that u cant tell them apart from reality and this person also thinks that hearing voices is the only symptom i have and knows nothing about psychosis or any psychotic disorders at all and than goes on talking to me for an hour about ■■■■ i refuse to listen to i wish more people knew what psychosis actually was
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The less you know about a problem the easier it seems to solve.
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my in laws and my brother feel this way. they think its all just a mind set issue and say i’m on too much meds that’s why they always take forever to go pick up my meds from the pharmacy. they don’t think I need them. my father in law spent some time in a mental hospital after trying to kill himself because his girlfriend (now his wife) refused to marry him. he took the meds and did the therapy but quit both after a few months. he thinks I can do that
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There was a post with a link to a blog on that topic. Maybe someone can find and link it. It did a good job explaining how dangerous that kind of encouragement can be for people who have psychotic illnesses. Maybe you can send it to your ignorant friend.
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What happened with your medication?
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I found the post:
https://augustpfizenmayer.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/your-ignorance-could-cost-me-my-life/
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nothing i am just kinda mad i am told that i dont need it and that i am just different i went back to twice a day of geodon after feeling horrible yesterday and not going to sleep till late still
i just showed this to my mom and she read it
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When I told my brother in law I heard voices he asked me if I was possessed. I was in shock. I said the pills make it go away. So I’m not possessed. What an idiot
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My friend who is an engineer told me you know there are stages in life, maybe you were going through a phase
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I didn’t believe I had sz. I think I was the only person content on me not taking meds. Everyone else encouraged, urged me.
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my family just wanted me to go to church and read the bible everyday they are very religious and don’t know much about mental illness
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if there are other ways then i haven’t found them, i have found out ways to be happier but i’m still on meds if you know what i mean 
guess i cant be happy without meds, i rely on them and there is nothing i can do about that,
i think your friend cares about you and is only trying to help the only way he can, i think you should say thanks for the advice but i usually listen to my doctor or i’d rather listen to my doctor and your friend should be ok with that, doctors have years of experience and qualifications so, i mean its ok to try and help but you really need to know what you are talking about.
would be a shame if you lost a friend over this lol
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“Other ways” including going batshiz crazy and setting fire to all your clothing before running naked onto a bus headed for downtown.
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That’s exactly my problem. My friends say the meds are ■■■■■■■■ .
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Some Religious people can say medicine is never needed and they refuse doctors help even.
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I had an ex-friend recently tell me that I didn’t need meds, that my psychosis was a path to spiritual enlightenment. Like, he really said that. I was all hmmm, easy for you to say, you’ve never had audio or visual hallucinations. There was no spiritual enlightenment at the other end, just endless paranoia and panic.
He also said exercise was better than SSRI’s (anti-depressants) knowing that I take Prozac. I was like, well then, exercise AND Prozac would be double good! Then he tried to say SSRI’s are just placebo effects but I told him he was not a scientist and shouldn’t run around planting bad ideas in the heads of former mental patients.
We’re not friends anymore.
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Can you like come over here and follow me around all day and just comment some wisdom every now and again itd be alot better than this big gray guy that cracks bad jokes and crawls around on the floor and walls , I cant pay you but I cook and umm hmm well thats about it
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No one understands us. Our friends don’t fully understand us, our doctors don’t understand us and we don’t even understand ourselves. So It’s generally not good to take medical advice from someone who does not know much about the disease and doesn’t know what we go through on a day to day basis.
To play devils advocate, there are alternative treatments out there for schizophrenia and there are other supplements that might help our symptoms. But these alternative treatments only help a minority of people and not the majority.
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Orthomolecular nutrition > psychotherapy
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