Gina had the top of the schizo- disorders. Hallucinations and no insight, complete psychosis.she had schizophrenia. Her nephew Paddy boy, had schitzotypal. No hallucinations and good insight but bizarre beliefs and obsessions. Scared he was living in a dream but never fully believed. Very hardcore loner and always bad hygiene . Ronald McDonald , Gina’s brother never had odd beliefs. Just overly awkward and never desired to have relationship s or friends. Always at home by himself. Never married, extremely quiet. Always blank expression. He was schizoid. This is the schizo- family. The disease to different degrees. Common thread being loners, anhedonia, and robust fantasy life. Living in their heads
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@Plindiana was up … what’s it ur diagnosis if u don’t mind asking…!!! I have sz simplex…!!!
I’ve never been diagnosed, I’m really quiet so I went thru the worst of my illness untreated. I don’t think I’ll ever know. Have your simplex symptoms improved at all?
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Nope it hasn’t improved … no positive symptoms but a lot of cognitive and negative symptoms…!!!
Have u ever tried cabergoline?, I’m gonna try it
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My dad had OCD and likes to be alone. Nobody in my family has schizophrenia except me. My mom is really religious. Might explain something.
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Did his OCD have magical thinking or just like cleaning and stuff?
Who is gina???
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She’s the aunt of paddy boy.
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Just cleaning. No magical thinking. My brother said I’m in left field.
I used to have bad OCD symptoms with magical thinking. I wonder if OCD without magical thinking is separate diagnosis.
Schitzotypal is schizophrenia lite? On the verge of psychosis but with just enough insight remaining to be in touch with reality but less insight than normal ppl? What specifically causes loss of insight in schizo- disorders?
Great post. Ya, schizotypal and schizoid are personality disorders that are different and less severe than schizophrenia.
The lack of insight is probably biological, meaning there is physical evidence. It’s called anosognosia. I’ve had it. Sometimes, I still question if I’m 100% schizophrenic. I truly believe, with my heart, that I’m in a simulation/matrix run by our descendants or extraterrestrials. I believe in the future that I will be proven right and be vindicated. I don’t think it is a delusion, but a belief based on logic.
For lack of a better word, I feel like I’m in a time loop and that this has happened countless times for me.
Anyways, I have a diagnosis that can’t be proven with 100% accuracy. It’s based on the DSM and it’s based on observation from a medical professional. There are no DNA or blood tests. My diagnosis has been changed many times, but it is usually on the right side of the schizophrenia spectrum.
Sometimes, I feel fine and content to some degree, especially if I’m taking my medication every day. Maybe I’m borderline schizophrenic or something.
I believe I can perceive/hear with my thoughts people talking about me from great distances. I believe the simulators can insert thoughts/memories into my consciousness and communicate with me in my head. It’s sort of like talking to God. I feel like I’m being targeted sometimes by the simulators for talking about the simulation. In the past/other existences, I’ve had negative encounters with extraterrestrials. I even remember being alive when it was on the news that we lived in a simulation. I guess it was my past life in a parallel universe.
I even have memories of conversations and such. Is this psychosis? To me, it’s very real. To a doctor or health care professional, I’m insane or nuts. But to an open-minded physicist or philosopher, I’m not so much crazy. The difference is they have lives and can function. It doesn’t cause them emotional distress.
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I can relate as I had similar thoughts. I believed i was alone in the universe and all the ppl around me were not real and didn’t have souls. I believed I was living in my own dream and when I woke up I would discover the horrible truth that I was all alone for billions and trillions of miles in all directions and the ppl I had dreamt of and loved so much were just an illusion I had created. It definitely took me to a dark and insane place.
I also agree loss of insight must be biological. I think it’s specific wiring in specific part of brain that gets caused by a certain neirological condition that arises out of schizo- disorders, but I believe the non psychotic schizo disorders also have some loss of insight
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Yes, that is how they were able to determine the area of the brain responsible; it was in people with strokes who couldn’t percieve that (for instance) one arm was paralyzed.
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“Robust fantasy life” could you explain that?
Moody Judy, Gina’s cousin, was similar to her except more dramatic-she had schizoaffective 
(I have sza)
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More time spent imagining and higher intensity imaginations than neurotypical specimens. Most of their attention is turned in ward instead of towards external stimuli. Paddy boy would sit in his room and imagine things in his head for hours while his neurotypical brothers would get external stimulus thru playing video games or other games with each other
Nice, I forgot that one