I believe i have a hidden camera on me as many of you know. Is it common when you have schizophrenia to believe you are being monitored? How severe is it because i hear people talking negatively to me everyday. And it is coming from their mouths so i dont know if im hallucinating or not. What are you guys experience of thinking you are being watched and monitored?
Yes. Classic positive symptoms. If the meds aren’t changing those thoughts then be honest with your treatment team and it’s probably worth a go at another med.
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Im tired of this, im trying so many medicines and its making me think that im not delusional. Nothing is working for me.
Talk to your doctor. I know it’s hard but maybe a combination approach will help. Many here are on a combination of ap’s. It’s not an exact science and sometimes you’ve just got to give it a go.
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Yea, i hope something works because im tired of living like this.
Before I was as medicated I thought I was being monitored 24/7.
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What medicine are you taking to help that?
Geodon. 15151515
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Yeah. I thought i was on a 24/7 Tv show.
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My doctor wants me to try caplyta but im afraid because of the reviews and side effects.
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Its horrible.
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If I ever get off of Geodon I’m going to Caplyta as long as my insurance covers it. It’s not supposed to cause weight gain or sexual side effects.
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I have never had meds help with voices or visuals. I take them for my mood.
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Yes, I have that too, but for me it’s a microchip in my brain and people record and post my thoughts, and change them to what they want.
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Yeah that’s very common. I thought government agencies were studying me and my facial microexpressions by camera to reveal my subconcious thoughts. Moreover, they were projecting thoughts at me to study my reactions. However, with time and medication it all went away.
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I thought that my ex wife hacked my phone so she could see every text and site I was on to make sure I wasn’t talking about her. And to track my gps location. I also thought she hacked my phone microphone so I didn’t want to talk about her to others.
Luckily with meds that passed on.
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No med have removed my paranoia or voices but Geodon is not really a strong drug. It should be as effective as abilify
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Maybe you just look at the world differently, and your mind is putting it together in a way that makes sense to you but not others. There is nothing wrong with being different. I try to think of schizophrenia as not that there is something wrong with me–but in terms of Neuro-diversity–that there is something different or unique that affects how I relate to the world.
there are a lot of common things that people attribute as symptoms of schizophrenia especially paranoid schizophrenia mainly government conspiracies and stuff like that, but that doesnt have to be the main symptom.
I think any human might have “schizophrenia” under the right conditions. Its not unique to any race/class/culture.
when I told a friend how I was frustrated about my thoughts constantly being reflected by other people’s conversations she said that was not an example of schizophrenia–that that was how human consciousness worked.
It’s about function. Sz and related disorders make it so we are obsessed with it or we lose ourselves in paranoia or delusions. Normal people don’t. That is the issue.
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Oh yeah for sure. Microchip under the skin is a hugely common delusion. I honestly think more than just paranoia that this is also a delusion of grandeur partly, because you get the idea that you’re particularly important or special so that someone would be wanting to monitor you all the time. In reality we are all pretty boring. No one wants to watch us sleep and poop and pick our noses and whatnot.
I never had that particular microchip delusion but I do feel like there’s always demons around me watching me so I still get the monitoring feeling too I think.
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