Hey. My name is Sarah, I’m 20, I’ve had paranoid schizophrenia since I was 15, and I’ve never met someone else with schizophrenia. Sometimes I don’t know what to do with myself because I have no one who gets me. My fiancé tries, but he’s normal so he’ll never really understand what things are like from my perspective. Even my therapist doesn’t really get me the way someone else like me would get me. So I figured this would be a good place to find other people who know what life with this disorder is like. I have auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions mostly, but my thinking is also really disorganized. I can’t tell a story in chronological order for example. My mind just doesn’t let me sort things out correctly. I have other symptoms but those are the ones that affect me the most. I’d love to know if other people here have ever met someone else with schizophrenia in person. I wonder what it’s like to just chill and hang out with someone else who shares your struggles.
I know you. Becoz we have it in common.
I’ve a solution. Let me get the name.
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Selegiline (Anipryl, L-deprenyl, Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar)
Do you try anything like yoga or meditation to help? I can’t be on pills because I get horrible side effects. That’s sad that I’m actually higher functioning without any meds
Selegiline (Anipryl, L-deprenyl, Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar)
no side effects upto 60 mg per day
some take 1 mg couple of times in week some more
I take 20 mg every morning and now I’m normal
I also take Resperidone 4 mg - every morning and, Olanzapine 20 mg every night.
Welcome!!..
Risperadol is the one I used to take but it made me drool in bucket loads! And it did some other awful things to me so my doctor decided to take me off of it. Now I just try to exercise a lot and watch my diet (I cut out a lot of sugar and caffeine) and I see a therapist and I’ve been able to keep myself pretty well under control. Sometimes I get really paranoid though and then I think everyone hates me and everyone is trying to get me
Haha I like that XD
Hello there PrincessKenny and welcome. I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1980 when I was 19 years old. I’ve had a few friends and aquaintences who have schizophrenia over the years. It was no big deal. We hung out and did plenty of “normal” fun things. Our schizophrenia was incidental to the friendships.
We talked about our disease and symptoms but it didn’t dominate the friendship.
I was hospitalized for 8 months in a locked psychiatric hospital when I was 20 years old with a 100 other mentally ill people. I assume that a fair number of them had some form of schizophrenia judging by their behavior. I never asked and I don’t like people asking me. I figure it’s my own business and my own struggle and I don’t feel obligated to tell anyone. Anyway, now you’ve met someone else with schizophrenia, lol.
Indeed I have 
I guess personally I’ve just always felt kind of isolated because there’s no one else like me where I live. Because of it, people definitely treat me differently and I don’t like that. I’ve never been hospitalized but I’ve come close a couple times. I don’t mind when people ask me about my disorder if they’re really trying to learn something new, but I hate people who say “OMGZ DO YOUR VOICES EVER TALK ABOUT ME?!?!?!?!” Being the only schizophrenic in my high school, I got a lot of very immature, self-centered people asking me questions like that. In some ways I found that worse than the people who picked on me. So that’s kind of a little bit about why I’ve wanted to meet others like me so much. I’ve been looking for a friendship that doesn’t constantly invoke me talking about my head problems. I feel like if I had a schizophrenic friend, it would just be like “I have it, you have it, we don’t need to bring it up all the time because we know what it’s like.”
Sounds tough. You are in the right place here. I hope you get something out of it.
Thanks I hope so too!
I am currently living in a group home for people that are diagnosed and I am sharing an apartment withtwo other menwho are diagnosed at first we told one another yeah i do think you’re right and then it turned out that we are just ill for me anyways but its nice to have them there.
I’ve said this before…
If you can stomach my awful jokes on this site, your schizophrenia will feel like a breeze by comparison! 
What’s living in a group home like? I still live at home with my parents, and I’ll stay there until my fiancé and I get married. I was looking at condos but I’m not so keen on the idea of living by myself. I’d much rather live with someone else around
Haha my jokes are pretty awful sometimes so don’t worry, way ahead of you!
welcome! i have pretty much the same symptoms as you…love your username btw!
How many people do you tell?
I used to tell whoever I met and I didn’t care who knew, ■■■■ the world. The then I had this really annoying vegan friend who’s every other sentence was about the earth or animals. I stopped sharing after that. Not because I really cared what everyone else thought but it came to my mind that it wouldn’t matter to them. Aversion therapy I guess.
You sound like me. I’m engaged too but it’s unraveling (from emotions that are my fault). I live at home too. I’m out of college and I just don’t know what to do with my life. I don’t know if I’ll ever live alone. I know I could do it, I just don’t know if I’ll have the nerve. I think I’ll end up a lonely isolationist.
But go easy on your fiancee. I’m sure he probably knows things about you that you don’t know about yourself.
Hi Sarah,
Welcome to our little corner of the internet. I think you’ll find it a very friendly and welcoming place. We hope you pull up a chair and stay for a while.