I post news stories here but don’t post the ones where a schizophrenic parent kills their child or where a schizophrenic kills their parent(s) etc.
In fact today, it was the turn of a schizophrenic parent killing their child in my news feed.
The best thing is probably to shut up about having the disease for as long as you can , and hope against hope that people will still accept you when they find out you have it.
That’s just terrible 
I told my future employer. If they are going to discriminate against me I will sit on disability and let them pay for life.
Those of us who are doing well enough to participate regularly in society do have a duty to try and reduce stigma. I try where I can without blatantly broadcasting my status everywhere.
Maybe we need to try to do the best we can to control our behavior because other people can’t hear what’s in our heads. I am not 100% innocent with all the things I have done but I’d rather die of the side effects of the meds than let the psychosis push me to do much worse things than I have already done and to also learn from my mistakes.
I had a stigma about schizophrenia before diagnoses. My parents had a friend who I considered potentially violent who had sz. It did not help that he often made comments like “I could snap your neck with my bare hands” to people and other such comments. It’s hard not to take a mental disorder such as sz combined with comments like this and not worry about potential violent tendencies in a person. Especially when I was considered a normie at the time. He was the only person I knew with SZ so this did not help my views on it.
I was sure that psychosis would never happen to me, and I honestly didn’t have a clue what it was about before I got it myself.
The media blows it out of proportion, focus primarily on romanticizing it into something normies will swallow. Fear and hate can be fun to some of them.
I agree we can be dangerous, but so can they. More often is a parent abusing a SZ/SZA Dx child.
So what do we do?
Do we hide it like a secret shame? Letting that in itself fester into triggers.
Do we call it out with pride? Letting them sharpen daggers against us?
It’s become confusing.
I don’t know if sz or psychosis makes someone violent. Maybe in some. I guess all kinds of people get mental disorders. I have always been quite peaceful, this didn’t change after I got psychosis.
I’m only dangerous to you if you’re a chocolate dessert item.
Or you physically attacked me first.
drizzles chocolate syrup over his ankle
[ puddle of drool expands out from under couch ]
This is exactly what I do. So far everyone that knows has accepted me. I am lucky. It is sad that those are the headlines you and others are getting. It increases stigma we don’t need.
I’m open about it. I don’t run around and say I have it to everyone i meet, but so.etimes it comes up. Especially if I have been withdrawn and people often wonder why.
It’s always been positive when people fi d out. “I had no idea!” Is the usual response.
I don’t know the statistics, but normal people undiagnosed with any mental illness participate in violent, abusive, homocidal behavior. People with schizophrenia are more likely to be victims, not perpetrators of violence.
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