Does anyone else experience this?
Yes, it’s very common. I think it’s a defense mechanism. Like your mind trying to be in denial of being mentally ill.
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Yes I experience this as well. Feel a lot of times like I’m faking my illness.
But then I read my manuscript of my story and I see I’m not
This happens over and over. It seems like I wrote my book not only for others but for myself too
They tell me that too. Oh you can do anything if you just did it. Not really, but they tell me that.
People always claim I’m a con. Which is ironic, since they’re well aware that they obsess about making my life, a living hell. But anyway, I’ve had several tests that are positive for the biochemical problems associated with schizophrenia.
Yes sometimes, it makes me reduce my dose on my own and I end up with severe headaches and paranoia, its bad.
Very common.
When I’m feeking really good I will wonder if somehow I faked my symptoms. I told my therapist and she said many, many people think think the same. But that we wouldn’t be able to reliably fake psychosis.
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Maybe in the very beginning. I think it’s common when one lacks insight.
I got over it completely. I don’t know what’s worse: faking it or having it. Probably having it but I think something must be psychologically wrong if one was faking a severe mental illness. Not sure if they could even function. I guess some of them can. There’s a lot of sociopaths out there.
My grandma thought I didn’t have schizophrenia. Even my dad early on until I got really, really sick in 2015 from a hallucination of several close encounters (can’t believe nobody believes me here…). Early on, it was thought I was sick from caffeine intoxication or energy drinks – like a bad reaction to the chemicals in them.
That I could have gotten better, but now everyone realizes I am sick. I don’t know about SS though. They used to but now they’ve given me a 3 year review. It’s crazy, man. I hope I can work and get better and make money in the future because this whole program is not sustainable the way things are going anyways.
One crude doctor early on thought and caught the schizophrenia because of my Matrix delusion. Probably the reason why I got on social security in the first place. You can’t really get it without a diagnosis that severe (in my case) anymore. Aspergers doesn’t cut it. Plus, my illness wasn’t that of aspergers. I had Matrix Delusion and severe negative symptoms mostly.
Very common with me. I feel like a fraud.
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Mine hit me too hard for me to think that afterwards. I was 100% cracked, completely gone. I totaled my truck and destroyed most of my valuable possessions. Why would I fake that? I don’t have a car anymore for crying out loud and the years are passing me by.
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Faking stuff worked out really good for the guy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Don’t do it.
Pdocs know when people are malingering or faking stuff to get drugs or whatever. If you successfully fake something, you might just diagnosed with something you don’t want on your record and forcefully medicated with something that has effects that you don’t want for the rest of your life.
Don’t do it.
I don’t know if I faked or not
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