When does schizophrenia become Scary to normies? What’s so scary about some schizophrenics? What’s the fear? I want to understand because most schizophrenics have been kind and scared themselves. What harm could be done?
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For most people I’ve told they get scared the instant I mention it. It seems like suddenly everything I do is threatening.
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I know right? I’m just confused as to what the actual fear is and what started it. I think I’m more afraid of people than they should be of me…lol
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I think a lot of the fear comes from how we’re represented in media. The amount of horror movies and cop shows where the killer/bad guy is sz is way higher than it should be.
Unfortunately those shows are all some people know of us so they assume that we’re all like the guy in psycho cause they don’t know any better.
Plus the amount of bad jokes of “oh the voices tell me to burn things/kill people” that I’ve heard from normies is disgusting. And also contributes to the stigma.
But yeah I think that’s where the fear comes from
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Oh ok. I was thinking the news may have had something to do with it, never thought of movies. I hate the stigma though.
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I don’t know. Maybe some primal fear built into people from the dawn of mankind makes people afraid of the mentally ill. Personally I have been around other schizophrenics who I wasn’t scared of. I was friends with a fellow schizophrenic for 7 years. We were in the same board & care home. He wasn’t a scary guy at all, in fact he was really funny.
And I’ve had other friends who had schizophrenia. But walking downtown in large cities and seeing grown men who were raving or screaming makes me nervous. I guess the most basic fear is that they aren’t following the rules of societal behavior and they just seem very capable of attacking someone for no reason. It’s just that seeing an adult who doesn’t know what he’s doing is rather frightening.
And the media is largely to blame because us schizophrenics know we aren’t any more dangerous than anyone else but there is just those occasional people with schizophrenia who are probably off their meds or maybe using drugs and commits some bizarre and terrible act of violence and then the media finds out he’s schizophrenic and so they sensationalize the crime in the media.
And when this happens the average citizen learns to link all schizophrenics as possible murderers who commit gruesome crimes.
And that’s most peoples only exposure to schizophrenia is when they read about the rare bizarre murder by a schizophrenic in the media or see it on the internet
The fact that I have schizophrenia and I’ve worked for 38 years, I’ve gone to college, I volunteered at a wildlife rescue center before, the fact that I’m a good brother and a good friend and a good son doesn’t make the 6:00 evening news. What makes the evening news is the schizophrenic who kills someone gruesomely.
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There should be a schizophrenia day to spread more awareness.
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Yeah, there should be.
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You asked, so you shall receive.
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Oh, I had no idea there was already one for mental illness as a whole. Do we have colors that represent our type of mental illness?
Oh thank you. I’m going to let my family know. So they can tell their friends and pass it on.
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I really don’t know. I found these two links by just typing in my
search bar,“Mental Health Awareness Day”. I think I may have heard of these once or twice but I don’t know anything about them.
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Silver Ribbon :
Meaning: This color is a symbol for children with disabilities, Parkinson’s disease, and mental illnesses such as severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders.
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They might be afraid if the person is not feeling like them selves and had paranoia,delusions,voices etc making them do things in self Defence the s hizo May think…
I have felt attacked by people and paranoid and delusional, voices et (real to me though)also had others in my body so I was not myself … it was them I felt etc
I have never been aggressive not even In Self defence when I thought they wanted to kill me (family too)
If a schizophrenic is in full blown psychosis it could maybe be dangerous depending on the schizophrenic.
I am peaceful so just try avoiding…
I don’t know…
Depends…
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They fear the unpredictability because they don’t know that psychotic symptoms always follow the same patterns.
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Personally, and this is coming from the perspective of when I was a normie, what scared me was that this girl with schizoaffective had said so many bad things happened to her before, including that she was raped. And she was very vocal and upset about it. One day she decides to buy some alcohol and to have sex with me when everyone left, and THAT’S what scared me. Other times she would allude to the idea that she was turned on and wanted to go somewhere and do it. That’s what also scared me. Other times I just felt so scared that I was going to be killed and I just froze up, because I knew that if I did anything, I would look like the bad person.
Personally, I think it started for me that the lack of insight that SZ/A have can lead to things like that, that can be scary.
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