Recently, people on this forumhhave been accused both directly and indirectly of not having schizophrenia. I would ask that everyone ponders this:
If someone is pretending to be mentally ill, doesn’t that mean that they probably have a problem? It may not be the same problem that the majority of the people on this forum exhibit, but, it’s a problem nonetheless. Some people cut themselves for attention, doesn’t this mean they need attention! Something does not compute! If someone is being deliberately harmful to the people of this forum, then by all means, get rid of them, but, if they are contributing and being civil… Why should this upset us?
I’m sorry for the rant, but, these things make me very sad. I have read these posts and cried in confusion.
I read that thread, it seemed at first to be talking about people posting here concerned that they had schizophrenia…and then it seemed to become in short order about people claiming to have schizophrenia. I think there is a huge difference between being worried that one might have schizophrenia and claiming or pretending one has this illness.
I…don’t know…I know that before my onset I myself was worried not about schizophrenia per say but that I was slowly losing my mind. I was suffering from severe anxiety and depersonalization type stuff during this time. So I can relate and sympathize with someone concerned that something like schizophrenia may be going on.
I just don’t understand the suspicion that there are people pretending to have Sz…who would want to do that? I don’t get it.
i know what you mean samples32 as i have real concerns about this myself, in my opinion we should show support in either case, why someone would want to pretend to have sz is beyond me but if they were then that is still a very serious issue as that could develop into something bigger and we don’t want that either, idk if you have ever heard the term ‘fake it until you make it’ now i know this term is usually only ever used by someone who is trying to cover up there true feelings and putting on a front or a show for people but i believe that this behaviour can have more uses than just that, i believe that if you do something for long enough can adopt that behaviour and it can become reality so that is why i think people that pretend to have this disease are at risk of essentially forcing schizophrenia on to themselves and they need intervention as well. thats what i think anyway.
i don’t have schizophrenia…
i have mad hatter disease…it means i wear funny hats and colourful beanies…and i can be found muttering to myself in a corner…with crazy eyes…
take care
How and why would someone fake it? I was dx’d with scizophreniform in 2011. My symtoms have not gone away. I still have a lot of voices but not bad paranoia anymore. I’m on a lot of meds. Why would someone pretend to live in this hell?
According to somebody on here, Im not schizophrenic because I go to work at a small pizza chain for two days a week for 3-5 hours. -_- I think most people who have read my posts on here could say that I’m clearly not faking it. Irritating.
i’m doing a course on counselling just now and i am not faking it, stable and recovered enough to help others is what i would say but i would not say ‘high functioning’ at this point,
i admire you for being able to hold down a job, i do 3 hours every friday morning in a cafe very light work but it is very hard and the counselling is easier and that is 5 hrs so basically i find it easier to learn and socialise than i do helping out in a kitchen,
It was much worse on the old forums here, that is for certain. The family forums were so heavily trolled by what was probably a couple of very dysfunctional users that the past moderator nearly wound up with a mental illness diagnosis of her own.
Well if people want some proof of me being schizophrenic, I’ll gladly show them the evidence. Though I hardly think that is necessary. Sorry Im ranting so much, I just hate being accused of being a liar.
No, I didn’t mean you at all. I just meant in a general sense that nobody here can be proven to have any diagnosis at all. We need to accept people at face value.
No another user on here accused me of faking because of working two days a week. It really upset me of course… but I feel like I responded rationally enough. Even though I was kind of shaking of anger.
Some people from the churches (pentacostal and bigger non-denominational churches) have started an anti-psychiatry movement. This involves harassing anyone they know who is taking psych medications and worse for anyone on a disability payment. You may be encountering more people recruiting to increase their church membership numbers by trying to lead you to Christ or heal you…Other people on this forum and myself have experienced mistreatment by these kind, then abandonment to greater harassment by church members even affecting your employment in town. Remember, some on the medications do cause symptoms to stop for some and give remission…Lots of the cities have a lot of part-time psychotic people who are not on psych meds who try to live and work (successfully sometimes) and the people who cannot make it do not always get a disability payment so there is a lot of anger on this issue…This is a bad way to go about reducing usable of psychiatric care as these verbal harassment tactics by church members. These attacks are causing more employment problems, anxiety and interventions due to consumer distress…I have noted that none of these folks has asked me to attend a specific church (which does happen with invite to the most radical of penacostal churches) or anyone who asked what kind of work I did then offered me a job.