As per your experience, what does others talk about SZ ?
Here i feel no one is even heard of it?
They just go by the name mental ? Then dont interact.
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I think people here think schizophrenics are either axe murderers or totally crazy with tin foil hats.
It’s just a persistent stereotype. I would like to break it.
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I’ve found that people who don’t have some severe mental illness don’t want to talk about it. I suppose they don’t want to feel uneasy about having to feel empathy for someone suffering. When i try to talk about my schizophrenia there isn’t much said by the other person.
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No one is fighting for us
Even the mental health campaigners only talk about anxiety and depression
We’re not an insignificant population… 1% is not much, but in the context of millions or billions of people we’re an army
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The last person who found out, thanked me for not chopping him into small pieces, if I really was a lunatic. I puzzled for days how to respond. And decided: not at all. I also had very good and kind responses though. For example from friends, who love me as I am. Since I lost the sz diagnosis, I tell people I have PTSD. But since that recently lead to male neighbours speculating out loud over whether I was a veteran, a nurse or a sexual abuse victim… I don’t really know what to say anymore. People judge anyway, some more than others.
Especially in MH care itself, I have felt there was a lot of stigma. I felt MH workers put me in the “hopeless, don’t offer help”-category when they labeled me with sz. A psychiatrist even said I would die soon. 
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Thats something hard and wrong to say,
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Yeah… I felt it was totally tactless to tell me - and my parents! - that she thought I would die soon. She didn’t show even the slightest sign of empathy with it too. It was just a cold statement. It was 2016, so I proved her wrong. This was really a horrible, horrible psychiatrist though. She did more. I think she was more crazy than me. 
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You know i went to a main hospital of psychiatrists they were all so serious, i was like wondering why are they so serious, no smile or expression, may be i will make some meaning out of every reaction they do, but still how could they be like that, one hard and difficult task i suppose…
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I wouldn’t want to be a psychiatrist… I think I would cry all day over all the suffering I witnessed. And would be terribly scared over what would happen with my patients. I feel a lot of them either are emotionally shallow or become numb because of all they see.
On the other hand, come on though… a bit of humanity and warmth and humor or just a simple smile makes all the difference for patients. My current psychiatrist told me, with tears in his eyes, that he had been very worried about me, the last time I broke down. That he had been so scared for my life. Sure, this makes being a psychiatrist a lot harder… but as a patient, I wanted to hug him, because he was one of the first psychiatrists I met that actually showed normal human emotions.
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My first psychiatrist did not even move, he just froze while i was talking, he was a really good doc, unfortunately he was very old and retiered or let me go to different doc as i became to dependent on him, like a fool i started to call his land line and mob, stupid of me to do such things. I think his wife started to scold him 
Once i remember his wife shouted from the other building, he was so concerned about me though…
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Oh, that’s unfortunate. We all do foolish things though, in tough times. I was more known for running off than depending too much. How is your current team?
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Currently my team of docs is very open and understanding, had been lot of engagement with docs, lets see how it all turns out, Currently on aripiprazole 20mg and planning to drop to 15 in the next visit by adding oleanz 2.5mg, i dont know is it because of traveling or due to reduction in oleanz am acting all crazy, how about you @anon4136120 what are you on ? And how many docs have you been to?
I do not use medication at the moment. It’s been too short to say whether that is a lasting thing. I am alert for relapse every day. I used to be on haldol, among other things.
I’ve changed pdocs more than once. Because of moving to a new city. Changing from home to clinic and back. Pdocs leaving. Me demanding someone else, because I disliked my pdoc. All sorts of reasons.
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