If I know a another person with schizophrenia, is it okay to try to talk with the person about it?
I think if you talk about yourself and what you’re going through and the other person opens up that’s fine.
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Maybe you could drop a hint, and see if they start talking about it?
Why not? I think it’s ok.
I found group therapy really helpful, but I think it is important to be in a group with people who are compatible, and the facilitator has to make sure that this is the case. In the past I have been wary about talking to other people with schizophrenia as I think paranoia and symptoms can be catching and transferred. But that was not my experience in group therapy. I don’t know if the people were especially chosen as a group, I believe they were, but the facilitator also played a role in making sure the group went smoothly as well.
I’ve had 3 or 4 friends who also suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. We told each other little anecdotes about some of our adventures with schizophrenia. We rarely talked about heavy experiences. We sometimes told each other funny stories about it; a lot of times the stuff we told each other was not funny at the time it happened but years later it makes good war stories.
I think it depends on how close you are. The people who I talked to were either friends, co-workers or roommates. Of course some of the stuff we talked about was not funny. But we talked about other things besides schizophrenia and hospitals. And a lot of the time when we were friends, we were going out to clubs or out to dinner or going to the movies etc. so we kept the conversations appropriate for the surroundings. I think if you both know that each of you have schizophrenia and you are friendly that it might be OK to say something about it.
When I had those friends, I didn’t plan out that I was going to talk about my disease, it just happen naturally in the course of being friends.
I had an old friend with schizophrenia that i always got along with. It was great – cos somehow we always knew what the other person was thinking. We both had a dark sense of humour as well, when it came to MI.
Its the only other Sz ive known in person round here. Shame she sadly died of breast cancer years ago. Im beginning to think im the only Schizo in this town now.
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