Looks like some of it is ■■■■■■■■. I think my doctor has a thought disorder. I would say 99% of people got something wrong with them. I mean my main symptoms are I was kidnapped in college out of my room and or abducted by aliens. And I have trauma. I’m 110% it’s real. Don’t know about the alien part of what. I did some work for aliens/government in a past life. Not anymore.
I believe it was covered up. That I keep dying and coming back alive. That we live in a video game. I could go on, but it causes distress.
I communicate with things in my sleep and get daydreams of ■■■■ all the time. Like total recall or some ■■■■.
“Formal thought disorder is a disorder of the form of thought rather than of content of thought that covers hallucinations and delusions. FTD unlike hallucinations and delusions, is an observable objective sign of psychosis. FTD is a common, and core symptom of a psychotic disorder and may be seen as a marker of its severity, and also as a predictor of prognosis.”
Around the time I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia I started going to church - trying to quit my crazy lifestyle and was called to churches for a cleaner life, amongst other reasons.
My friends were not happy with that and ditched me…
Then I went to jail
When all was said n done I have 1 person who I talk to in life
Many issues later I found my self better with family and aquaintances
I never had a social life even before my diagnosis. It all began in my prodromal period in high school when I had zero friends and it continued into college and the rest of my life. I have zero friends to this day.
I’m not complaining that’s just the way it’s always been.
Most of my friends bailed on me when I got sick. I don’t blame them, I was being a bad friend. One stuck around. After I was diagnosed and got treatment, I was able to repair relationships with a few people, and make better relationships with new people. I am happy with my social life now.
Pre becoming ill -1 person I mistakenly thought was a friend . I found him on twitter decades later. Made a comment and he blocked me.
After becoming ill - a platonic relationship with a young woman from 1976-1981 . We had little in common . She’d swing from liking me to being really nasty .
1981-1983 a woman I’d met briefly in 1979 . I was even more naive then as I am now . I was basically a substitute for when other people weren’t available . There was one disastrous attempt at sex . 2 minutes foreplay and she opened a bedside cabinet choc a bloc with condoms . I got flustered trying to put one on, and it died a death . Her reaction? To turn her back on me .
1982- 2005 . Met Brenda in Sept 1982 . We quickly became friends despite the age difference . Got married in 1986 . She died 2005. For last 2 years she had vascular dementia.
The vast majority of my friends do not know that i have Schizophrenia. They know i have some sort of mental illness, but no which one. Only one of my friends knows, and they’ve fine with it. As for a social life - i try to catch up with at least one of my friends each week. Otherwise, the only other social contact i have is with my partner.
I never had much of a social life. Never was a people-person. SZ just reinforced that. I scared a few flighty people off when I shared my diagnosis, which was something I expected. Now I love my time spent being an introvert with no hard ties to people and the world beyond my front door.
It was hard as until the dementia started she had been the dominant partner .One of the reasons for my antipathy towards my then mental health trust was the response I got when struggling to cope . I went to the day centre ,which was then about 3 minutes walk away, to say I was struggling to cope . A receptionist there saw me, and very flippantly told me I should see a private counsellor. When I lost the plot due to that response I was told to stop being so hysterical .
I really hope to have a social life.2014-2016 I did met a bunch of friend with mental illness,these two years are a happy year for me.I end up cutting them off,reasons being they are in another country where I was treated disease there and when going out with the group,I didn’t manage to make a gf.
Now I don’t have friends,social life is poor.The good thing is I am married.I still hope for friends and social life though
It’s definitely better now in the way that there’s far less hostility, and a greater realisation that I have real needs . My stepdaughter has helped a lot . I am now registered as a vulnerable person according to the ‘care act’.
Biggest remaining issue is getting to available groups as most are in nearby towns I can’t get to on my own . There is a centre where I live.
Who is the service for
The service is aimed at people with a learning disability and/or autism over the age of 18, living in the Wiltshire area.
