Hey, this is my first post and I’m happy to meet you all
So I’ve been diagnosed as schizoaffective for well over a year, and I’m starting to question it again. I had my last “episode” in March, and I’ve gotten a lot better and I’m starting to wonder if I ever had it at all and if I truly need medication.
When I first started having experiences, I chalked it up to spirits… I’ve had unusual thoughts but I wonder if the spirits are messing with me. Lately I’ve been hearing voices and seeing shadow people again, and I just don’t know what to think. Does anyone else ever have these thoughts?
I think it’s common to attribute this to some spiritual thing or the other but in all likelihood it’s just the sza and you need medication to control it. Welcome to the forums!
I have one female voice in my head that tells she’s real when I keep questioning reality. Lately I feel like I’ve been stalked by alien entity when I go to sleep.
It was unusual beliefs you were experiencing you will experience them again if you go off meds . It’s common problem off people when they get better they think they don’t need meds. They get better becouse meds work and schizophrenia didn’t developed worse… be on meds this is best you can do and trust doctors they are the same people as we just with cool degrees they are cool . Have a nice day.
I think I wrote everything good … take care take meds engage in some hobbies or go to work , study something get merried forget that you take meds … it’s the same as diabetes you have to take meds to stabilise yourself your brain chemistry. Brains have receptors which meds reduce from shooting too fast…just in diabetes you have to stabilise your blood sugar… I take meds 4 years now I am happy
This concept is the root of a lot of my struggles. If you analyze and explore the spiritual sense you end up going down a rabbit hole and never come totally out.
It’s important to remember that we live in a universe that is not rational and the laws of physics support a lot of the reality of the spiritual senses you’ll get. Sz will open your mind and affect the way you perceive things and filter stimuli. It’s valid to accept that there are infinite unknowns and reality is different for everyone and many things are unprovable. What screws you up is when you can’t break away from exploring these ideas. You won’t get an answer and you won’t be able to forget the questions that will flood in. It will snowball.
You need to make peace with whatever it is you want to believe. Any diagnosis is really just an interpretation of symptoms but that does not mean you shouldn’t take meds or think stopping the spirits is inherently negative. You need to get to a place of optimal functioning. For me it’s learning to close the doors that lead down different paths of that rabbit hole. Not doing so drives me mad. I never had luck with antipsychotics helping that but I have found Gabapentin to be extremely effective which I don’t even take for psych symptoms. It can help tho so I’m grateful.
Yeah., About two years. I suppose. As Marilyn Manson says, ‘a long hard road out of hell’. Slightly confused that my previous post on here has been hidden. Leaves me guessing. Ghoul., Never give up!.
