I was talking to a guy than ran a kinda homeless rehab kinda place. Asked him about the mentally ill that arrive there, told him I was curious because I was sz. He said they usually don’t take MI but he did have one guy living there. I said does he have sz, he said yes I’m sure. He also told me lots of people come in there and when they leave there off all there meds, asked if I I had managed to go off mine , told him I needed mine, don’t think he thought much of that. So he introduced me to this guy. He was a nice guy but he wasn’t sz or I don’t think even MI. He was kind of a strange guy that just didn’t fit in much and had a lot of childhood trauma. Said he had several different diagnosis over the years and no meds have ever helped. Decided that’s how God made him, accepted it and is now going on with life med free. I couldn’t agree more, but felt pretty bad that just because someone was strange that someone in the field he was in would just label someone sz and think we don’t really need our meds. I’m sure this situation will justify what he believes. There really needs to be more education.
Normies don’t understand sz/sza. Just plain fact. When I was younger and in the throes of my illness, I felt the urgent need to explain to people what I was going through and get across to them how much I was suffering. Now, I am college educated and very eloquent but, despite this, no one could understand what I was going through. And I mean no one. I tried every way possible to explain my psychotic symptoms to them and it was all to no avail. The only ones who understood were my pdoc’s and my psych nurses. Thank goodness!
Very few if any body truly understands what I go through.
My family is supportive for the most part but there are doctors and nurses that don’t quite understand either.
Having a severe mental illness like SZ/SZA becomes a lonely experience for the most part, that’s why SZ sites like this become invaluable places to visit - I don’t feel so alone when I come on here.