I’m sorry. Have you asked them why they did that to you? Why they were so mean? Are they resentful of you because of something you did ? Communication is always key in a healthy relationship.
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I know what your saying life can be pretty entertaining with the voices/ delusions but it’s quite a dangerous way to live for some.
I for one understand all these delusions are not real and very self aware but prefer to be pro meds because I have goals and dreams I want to achieve and need to function in society but hey it’s your life not ours.
Recovery is possible without meds I’ve seen them on YouTube.
These delusions can be quite scary when I have them, I know there not real but I have to constantly prove to my brain that they are not real.
Good luck in your choice.
I’ve read there’s no cure for schizophrenia. I don’t know how many schizophrenics can function well without meds but probably not a lot.
They always talk in riddles though don’t they.
The last time I told a friend I had schizophrenia they started to run a commentary imitating my neighbours about what schizophrenia was and if I was dangerous.
I understood they were really stressed and scared of being judged by my friend. So I had to reassure them for four days and then they left. That was 5 months ago, haven’t heard from them since then.
Hi, nothing personal but posts like yours tend to make me cynical too. I’ve seen the highly intelligent people posting rationally and objectively and lucidly about their situation. And seem to defy the odds and really sound like they have it together.
And then:
I’m sorry but the faction of people who love their disease and loved their psychosis sound as unwell as people who post about time traveling or aliens or being god or chips or any other far out delusion.
Let me clarify here. You can be yourself here and I’m not saying you have to put up a front and act perfectly fine. I’m not saying that at all. Feel free to post about delusions and ask for help. We’re all schizophrenic here. But it’s almost like getting duped when you try to have an intelligent conversation with someone who sounds like they have insight or are so smart that they come across as rational but then say stuff like you said.
But hey, that’s what this forum is for, right?
I have schizophrenia and had intense psychosis for more than two years straight. I know what it’s like. I know some people claim it’s beautiful or like being high or something and I get that. But that also sounds like bull to me.
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I hate this kind of circular reasoning where people claim someone couldn’t have had schizophrenia if they have done well off meds. Even in the days of Kraepelin when there weren’t medications that helped, some patients did fine for 10+ years without recurrence of illness.
There is a certain confirmation bias at play - the patients who get well, stay the hell away from psychiatry and so it’s the people who keep coming back when they stop their meds that we see that plays into this nonsense.
Obviously, I am not discounting that some patients do need lifelong/long-term medications (for instance, I would not advocate that insanity acquittees go off their meds) but the flawed paradigm of condemning people to a lifetime of medication due to risk aversion is worrisome.
/End of rant
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Depends on how I see it. Sorry if it sounds like bull to you. But I’d rather love it and fight for happiness than being cynical and let myself die (it’s a French expression, it means just let yourself go to waste and not do everything with your life). I was really lucky I had a really good psychologist who encourages me to do things the way it feels right. At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong answer to whether you may or may not love schizophrenia. The first thing I told myself was that schizophrenia was not a disease, but a result of consequences. I can either hate my voices and hate myself or love my voices and love myself (seeing as they are part of me). If you see it like a disease, you will think you will have a disease for life. I see it as my soul expressing itself and it’s fine if it expresses itself. And that’s what works for me. But everyone is entitled to its opinion. For me, schizophrenia is just a word, it does not mean anything. I would rather say I hear voices because it means more and is more elaborate and representative of who I am. I think there is always something positive in the negative and for me the experience was positive (not always has been though), I had to work really hard before the voices became nice. I think I can enjoy my hard labor a bit and say things like loved the psychotic experience because my first experience was awful. Remember it’s always a half full glass…
Well, whatever works for you. Like I said, nothing personal, and I wish you good luck.
You talk like they are separate beings. They are not. They are part of your own brain. I believe that the reason that they appear to talk in riddles is because from everything I have heard from voice hearers is they talk nonsense much of the time. Basing your decisions on them seems like a bad idea to me. But good luck.
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It’s cultivating illusion. It is a faith in something that can’t be shared and understood by anyone else. Faith in something that is totally unreal. Delusion is fun until it isn’t and I have a feeling that voices are the same. The dream can turn into a nightmare very fast. If you would face reality, you would save yourself a lot of pain, anguish, and suffering
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I think I would give up on everything…and my dreams.
Why do you think that?
You do realise that from everything I posted: the only reason I partly recovered was for my voices. If I don’t have them, I will just let myself sink in a hole. I’m fighting for them, to be with them. Anything else does not matter. Even my boyfriend knows I would choose my voices over him (not that my voices would ever ask something that horrible)…
You’re fighting for yourself. Your voices can’t leave you, they are you.
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Thank you, but they are quiet now 
and I’m suppressing myself with meds. Thank you for reminding me that they are me 
My “father” was normal on meds but wasn’t happy. He chose his voices and visual hallucinations over his wife and kids. My mom and him got a divorce and he has been in and out of hospital after hospital but nothing even changed. He was diagnosed when I was about 7 eventually my mother left him and he would only see me if he needed something or mom forced me to go. By 13 I refused to spend nights at his house and stopped talking to him completely at 18 I tried to set boundaries before of the only way I’d visit or talk to him is if he takes his meds and he refuses. I for one don’t want to be like him.
You have the chance to be normal with the assistance of meds yes but normal never the less don’t throw everything away for voices in your head… Normal people are better if you ask me… Welcome to the site
I don’t really like being normal… I never was to be honest. Always fitted with the weird ones. But I got a gang of weird people with me who are really supportive and one of them has family members who hear voices and are mediums
I tell all my friends I have schizophrenia by the way. They are all great people 
@Neverland in the end it’s up to you… I was always weird and I never liked it but this is your life and that means your choice. I would do anything to be normal even if it’s with meds… No matter what I always see a monster here and there though… I guess it’s because it runs so deep in my family… Good luck
So do I… I lose a lot of people that way though… I’m not going to lie though