What a coach told me

I went to a coach in order to know better what I want for my life professionaly. I told her about my schizophrenia (because some of my obsessive thoughts are related to work) and what I felt is that she was okay with that. But in one of our meetings, she told me that maybe I don’t have schizophrenia, because people with schizophrenia act like zombies (she didn’t told it directly, but I don’t know how to express what she said in English). She said that a schizophrenic (she used schizophrenic, which is a term I don’t like) was able just to go to the bathroom. In this meeting, there was a psychotherapist telling me the same thing.

She thought I wasn’t a person with schizophrenia because I was acting normal. But there is a lot of people with schizophrenia that acts normal. It’s stigma in my opinion. I felt myself offended for what she and his friend said to me.

We need to erase this tabu. People with schizophrenia are strong people. We can be as strong as any “normie” can be.

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Unfortunately there are a lot of mental Health professionals that have a difficult time understanding
Psychotic disorders like schizophrenia and Schizoaffective disorder.
It’s an ongoing issue.

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I agree. There are many strong people on this site and in the world who have sz. Just because you are able to act normal doesn’t mean you are not struggling with something very real. You seem to be doing well. Best wishes with continued success in your life. Take care.

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Well, the coach can’t be blamed for being ignorant about mental illness, but the psychotherapist should have known better. Personally, I wouldn’t waste my time on coaches. Talk to a real therapist instead if you have an issue that you want to work on. Coaching is mostly just big words and pseudoscience in my experience.

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Yeah, the coach was understandable, but they both had the same opinion. I trusted the coaching program because there was a psychotherapist, but he said ■■■■ to me. What matters is that I found the answers that I needed by myself.

At least I learned something with this experience. Coaching is kind pseudoscience. I thought it was very positive, but know I prefer something more realistic (I mean realistic, not negative). Far better going to a good psychotherapist.

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In my experience most psychotherapy is BS when it comes to psychosis. Wouldn’t concern myself with a psychotherapists view on schizophrenia.

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maybe you didn’t have to tell her explicitly that you had schizophrenia, but rather that you had some obsessive thoughts that pop in and out at times.

I tell noone I have schizophrenia.

Yeah, maybe I should have kept my mouth quiet. I thought that knowing that I had schizophrenia was important. She asked my story then I told it with no brake. But I remember that during the process, I had to answer some questions and one of them asked if I had some disease. It’s the same then.

What does BS mean?

BS = bull ■■■■ I don’t really agree with my psychiatrist on some issues…like she really pushes me to exercise and “get busy” with the house chores…I just washed some dishes but I still haven’t walked yet. I would rather do yoga…haha…RIGHT… like that is going to happen…now I am dieting to lose weight and it seems to be working.

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even employers ask that questions. but it’s usually optional, so I don’t answer.

but usually when professionals ask me about disease, they don’t mean a mental health disease

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