I’m I fraud or not

About 7 years ago I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, I was hearing people talk to me when nobody was around and couldn’t sleep I ended up being hospitalised. I don’t believe it was coming from inside me , I believe it was actual people talking to me somehow, can’t work out how they did it . But I agreed with doctors that I would take treatment because I want to leave hospital and have said I have schizophrenia to people because I wanted to talk about the experience and didn’t want to freak them out by saying I don’t believe I have mental illness. Now I’m worried people are trying to frame me for pretending to be mental ill , I feel like that’s what people who did this to me want , but I only said I had schizophrenia because I needed to talk about an awful experience for me and I didn’t want people be uncomfortable.

Voices are hallucinations, they say lies and nonsense.
Are you on meds?

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I feel like a fraud.

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ive been told doubting you’re ill can just be a product of the illness itself. who are you worried is accusing you of faking it?

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Yeah on aripiprozole injections , but always believed this no matter whether I’m on medication or not . Sometimes I wish it was mental illness cause then nobody would be after me . But then I feel guilty because I can’t imagine what that would be like. But when you say things like that nobody knows how to handle it so that’s why I used to say I have schizophrenia so as not to make people uncomfortable, sorry repeating myself . But now I just feel guilty cause I don’t think I have schizophrenia and I’m wasting my mental health team time, I tried going to the police years after but they could accept it without any evidence

Nearly everyone I know and a lot of people I don’t know .

No one is after you, it is the illness, did you try other meds, what does your pdoc say about your symptoms?

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They said to add in some other antipsychotic to see if that helps. But I haven’t tried yet maybe I should but every time I do , I just feel really unwell. I also don’t want to talk about it because I feel like I’m being a fake. Everyone say I just need to accept it but I honestly would if I could believe it. They have suggested going on clozapine but it has to be started in hospital and I’m really worried about the side effect , plus it hasn’t been suggested for while now .

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