Paranoid schizophrenia is a type of schizophrenia in which the patient experiences delusions that somebody may be plotting against them or their family or friends. This is the most common form of schizophrenia. These patients may also experience auditory hallucinations, meaning they hear things that are not real.
Patients may spend majority of their time thinking of ways they can protect themselves or their loved ones from these delusions or hallucinations.
Compared to patients with other types of schizophrenia, patients with paranoid schizophrenia often have fewer memory problems, dulled emotions, and concentration difficulties. This allows these patients to think more clearly and have a higher level of functioning.
Paranoid schizophrenia is a chronic condition. And because it’s there for life, it does increase the risk of complications later on.
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I experienced a lot of the symptoms when i was a kid. I should have seen it coming. 4 years ago i went into depression. And my anxiety has been getting worse ever since. Now I’m very very paranoid most of the time and i know marijuana has made it worse but i can’t get myself to stop smoking. I always think that I’ll stop now but i end up smoking a lot. What is wrong with me?
I am diagnoised paranoid schitzophrenia alothough with meds I am managing reasonably well at the moment. I still think my phones are tapped and im beng followed everywhere.
I was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic thirty years ago and I still believe that the people at my work thirty years ago were plotting against me. No amount of Abilify or other antipsychotic will change my mind about it. In fact I am more convinced now than I was then that there was a conspiracy against me. I have put together the pieces of the puzzle and it only goes together one way.
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I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2008, I feel I am being targeted in every way available for speaking out about war crimes committed during my active duty service in the military. I think they’re trying to punish me for being a good person, these voices. I can’t ever get away from them and I don’t just have auditory hallucinations I have tactile hallucinations I feel everything they do to me. I can’t see them, just hear and feel them. So I feel like a prisoner pretty much and have for many years. They’ve tried to keep me silent but I don’t think they can keep doing it forever. I just need to find energy to fight back and stay on track. I’ve already quit drinking and haven’t drank for about 4 months now. So I’m getting healthier, but that doesn’t mean I feel good by any stretch of the imagination. I’m pretty much loathing life.
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I’m going through very similar things right now and have for years. I seemed to have fallen off their radar for awhile but the past 3 months I’m being grilled almost constantly. If im silent it gets unbearable.
If I talk to myself quietly while reading or writing I’m ridiculed. Been happening ever since I was 15 when someone approached me and told me I was followed. Idk why.
Now I’m being faced with them exposing all my stuff to society. I can’t say a sentence to myself or feel an emotion with hearing someone content about it. It’s hard to go with the flow when you develope trust issues to absolutely everything.
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Sorry to hear of your situation. I’ve never had hallucinations but just delusions, some of which I feel are real. I feel like a prisoner too because I’m not living the life I choose to live. It’s good that you are not drinking. I gave that up about ten years ago. I don’t find my life that satisfactory, but I don’t want to make any worse than it already is. Some of my delusions involve my being under surveillance. I think that my schizophrenia is a handy way of others getting away with bad things. Persevere. Don’t let them get you down. You must win!
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I have paranoid schizophrenia, the positive symptoms, plus bipolar. I am schizoaffective.
…and the worms ate into his brain