Congrats on the engagement!
Wow I can’t imagine what life would be like in a home where you and all your siblings have the same thing. My brother is a bit strange but not anywhere near the way I am! When I started tweaking out about how everyone I’ve ever met was conspiring against me, my family knew something was up.
My doctor also told me how “rare” it is for a schizophrenic to be so self aware, but as I’m finding out on this site, it’s not rare at all! Everyone I’ve talked to so far knows what’s going on with them. I’m loving it here, I really feel like I’m not alone anymore.
It must be nice to have a friend to talk about stigma and bake cakes with! I love baking, I make a lot of pies lol my next goal is coconut toasted marshmallows XD but all my friends talk about how much they “hate stigma” and how it’s “ruining our world” but it kinda pisses me off when they say that because none of them have any issues. None of my friends have ever been on the receiving end of stigma. So for them to be like up in arms about it annoys me because they’ve never even experienced it. I experience it every day and I don’t wanna shank the ignorant people lol I just wanna educate them! It’s cool you have a friend you can just talk to about that kind of thing because they actually understand
You remind me of how I felt when I first discovered this place. Our doctors really don’t know very much about us, do they? I think most of them have only ever seen a few cases, so they don’t know what’s normal and what isn’t. Either that, or we just don’t see anyone without insight here because those people wouldn’t join a website about having schizophrenia. They would join a site about alien encounters or government conspiracies or something.
If the coconut marshmallow pie goes well, can you share the recipe? It sounds amazing.
Of course! If it comes out well I’ll make sure I post it for you.
It really does amaze me how much doctors act like they know about schizophrenics when they really don’t know that much. It’s a shame our illness is pretty under researched compared to other mental illnesses. good point about the kinds of people on here versus the alien website though lol at the start of my illness I thought the news stations were broadcasting my thoughts whenever I wasn’t looking so I always had the news on tv just so they couldn’t show everyone what I was thinking.
I thought television writers were spying on me and then hiding references to my day in their episodes. Why they would do that I have no idea. I never thought that far ahead.
The things we think of when we’re not all there right? I still have issues thinking that people are only pretending to like me. I’m much better than I used to be but the struggle is still there. I’m just happy I got over the news station thing!
To me, it seemed like very effective relaxation therapy. It didn’t take care of all my problems, though. I still struggled with stress daily. The promoters of TM back then made extravagant claims about its effectiveness. It didn’t live up to those claims, but it did help me a little.
Welcome…sorry for the late reply been away a bit, but sill welcome and is a great company here, so yea weeeeeeee.
~Nastya the derpy and confused
I may give it a try, any help is better than none!
Thanks! So far I’m really enjoying it here 
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I’d love to know if other people here have ever met someone else with schizophrenia in person.
[/quote]I had a sister that had SZ like me, but sadly she ended her life. I blame poor medications, poor housing situation, and terrible medical doctors & opinions. When she lived at home she was doing fine, but my mother & family treated her very poorly because she had a hard time controlling her tourettes-like behavior.
I’ve been living alone for nearly half a year now and am also unmedicated. I’ve been doing MUCH better off of prescriptions as well. I still have a therapist and he connects pretty well, he’s mostly stunned by the fact that I have a predominantly visual schizophrenia, as oppposed to audial or delusional SZ.
That all aside, welcome to these boards. I hope this forum continues to expand, we need more diversity here… I think…
I’m so sorry for your loss, it sounds like she was dealt a really bad hand of cards with her treatment. It’s a shame when doctors don’t do their job right.
I’m glad you’re doing well off meds, did they give you side effects like they gave me? If you’ve got a good therapist That’s awesome! A good therapist can make a world of difference. My first therapist wasn’t great but the one I see now is helping me a lot.
I agree! Diversity is nice, it makes life more interesting
My side effects were intense anxiety & metabolic dysfunction. I’m trying to still recover from the damages I was dealt since I have only been unmedicated for about two months now. I can’t really describe the pains I was enduring while on meds.
Almost everybody I’ve known who took antidepressants or meds like that gained a huge amount of weight and some of them had mood issues. When I take meds, I drool a lot and I feel like I’m crawling out of my skin both physically and mentally
hi
take care 
Hi There,
Honestly it is remarkable that you are just 20 and have such an insight !. Im 32 and noone understands me too . So in a way please be proud that you are unique !. Seriously most of the humanity is either a copy of each other or want to be copies of someone. It is truly the best of the humans who are unique or who want to be unique.
Do you actually have auditory hallucinations?.
I hate taking meds too…most of the time I am either escaping hospitalization from my parents who want me to put me in a mental asylum here in India and I am running away from them and trying to not go there…Either that or they want me to be medicated…The Meds just ruin me completely…they make me completely unaware
Hey! Thanks for your support, everyone here has been so nice so far! I do have auditory hallucinations, I have 7 people in my head that are always making a lot of noise. But one of them is super nice so I’m friends with him haha and I hear you about not wanting to take meds, they give the worst side effects.