Schizophrenia

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Can anyone explain to me what it feels like to have schizophrenia?

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What are you diagnosed with?

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schizoid and schizotypal personality disorder but there is a nucleus of psychosis, I don’t quite know what it means, in any case a very quick response, in any case I don’t want to self-diagnose anything that is clear.

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I have voices and anxiety. Have had psychosis and depression.

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Before sz, i had schizotypal PD.
Eccentricities, unusual beliefs,
magical thinking, mild delusions etc.

I was diagnosed with sz at 2017

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Schizophrenia for me is like dreaming while awake while having depression. Meds prevent that.

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The feelings are completely divers depends on individual

my delusions are spiritual and religious based delusions

So I have feelings associated with these delusions

vast array of feelings some good

but when I felt the very worst I explained to my college disability advisor that I had feelings so unbearable I did not now how any human can tolerate the feelings I had

My Abilify has really stopped my worst feelings so far

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Without meds I completely lose my mind!
I’m existing on a different plane of existence.

Pretty damn scary

On meds I can semi function.

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Its like always having a scary feeling that something wrong can happen in life. As the psychotic episodes and depressive episodes give that feeling of uneasiness and fault prone. Need immense energy, medication, therapy to overcome it if being down for long time. If it is recent and fairly new occurrence then we can get guidance from doctor, educate ourselves about it and try to move on with life.

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OCD led to magical thinking led to Mania led to psychosis led to hearing voices led to anxiety and paranoia
My life in that order with a bit of drug use as spice

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I have auditory, olfactory, and somatic hallucinations 24/7. I also have delusional thoughts regarding aliens, conspiracies involving aliens, etc.

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Depends on what type you have for me its paranoid. And eccentric thoughts. As well as anxiety and depression. You believe everyone is out to get you

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thank you all for the replies!

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I knew that schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders can be confused with another disease, as well as schizotypal personality disorders can evolve into another disease, plus I have psychosis, I’m afraid I won’t hide it, apart from everything I hope the psychiatrist will fix my therapy whatever the diagnosis and feel better than how I feel sometimes

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I too couldn’t stand my emotions, I said emotions weren’t for me, I think that’s why they diagnosed me with schizoid personality disorder

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I too used drugs but perhaps it is not possible to specify which, I think they make the situation worse, they certainly burn the brain, it would be better to stop, in addition to the fact that they create addiction and it is not nice to have withdrawal crises, they reduce man to be weak

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I dreamed of some things I saw in a period when I wanted to do something bad, I’m sure I had a glimmer of lucidity, I had several to tell the truth, luckily for me, I was able to reason and question, albeit with difficulty, looking back it was a scary nightmare even though i felt amazingly gifted

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I, on the other hand, saw a bald secret service agent with a warm reassuring or scary threatening voice threatening me, it was when I was about to do something bad

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I am normal right now on AP and antidepressant. Without meds I here voices, have delusion, and think my life is being filmed.

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For me the main thing when I am sick is delusions. Then there was a period I did not want to do anything physical. Then anxiety and panic attacks sometimes. I have to live a holistic and stress free life else I get sick. Social and work situations make me sick.