could they be right?
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…and I don’t think i have sz either
Psychiatrists know more.
Your family are not Drs.
My grandma didn’t believe I had schizophrenia before she died. She thought it was bipolar or something. She was an amazing woman and I miss her…im glad she doesn’t have to see whats going on in America and the world.
Doctors spend 15 min with you at least once a month and 5 min every day for a week or two so I think family members know us better as well as ourselves.
Elon musk believes in matrix theory. So do I and I got Risperdal and went to therapy…see the difference?
Some family members have problems though so I would listen to a psychiatrist but they’re not perfect or infallible.
No doctors in my little family of 7, so I trust the doctors.
My mom denies my sza, just thought it is stress/nerves. She thinks the meds do more damage to my brain than the sza.
Well my family was downright afraid of me for a while after my first episode so they made me get help.
So no questions for me.
And to this day they still ask how I’m doing and offer help if I need.
My sister doesn’t believe I have sz. Most she’ll consider is bipolar for me. My niece doesn’t believe I am MI. She thinks I am demon possessed and that I should pray myself well.
Most of my family believed it too much and one treated me like a non-functional person.
I have the same thing with my family I tell them I do and they just say you are allright. I told them a long time a go but now I think differently.
It makes it hard to cope when family is in denial.
Your problems might be more related to John Barley Corn.
When I was 15 and had severe anxiety my mom took me to a pastor friend of hers to get “baptised in the holy spirit” and he tried to exorcise me. It was traumatic and I began to believe evil spirits were trying to infiltrate my mind. Messed me up even more.
Yup. Mentally ill people who are exorcised are not better for the experience.
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I mean if you hallucinate then I can’t imagine thinking you don’t have sz. Same goes for if you ever thought you were a prophet or something like that.
During my psychotic break, my religious mother thought I was having some sort of come to god moment and probably that the rapture was about to happen. I reckon that helped my delusion that reality was coming undone at the seams. I still haven’t talked to her about it, because its awkward, but I think she’s come around on it.
I reckon the world keeps turning, its real enough.
Didn’t you say your dr said you didn’t have it…?
My family and my aunt didn’t believe it (she was a social worker in mental health at the time)
I think people expect us to be like a character from Looney Tunes.
They’re surprised when we’re nothing like that.
The only problem is, once they understand we aren’t joking bias, hatred, and prejudice tends to arise.
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