I mean, where is the line? it is obvious that everything stands on a wide spectrum and not only, but the person also can have poor or good coping skills. if someone asks you that, about your sz “severeness” how do you calculate this? compare to other symptoms? other people?
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It is like being high functioning or low functioning. If you can pass as a normie for a few minutes you are probably high functioning.
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Its hard to categorize idk there is positive, negative and cognitive symptoms. It depends on their severity. They differ from between individuals.
yes, but only those how cant go outside the unit, will be with a sever sz? that is my question. what to lock like a normy for a few minuets that is the line?
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It’s all severe
There are different levels I guess though
My first 3 psychosis were focused on pure
paranoia telepathy voices, people talking about me and the odd thing like government following me or machines talking to me or birds
The severity of my sisters schizophrenia was much worse
I never saw it like that until after she died
It was the movement as language element,
what she called body language
That is at the centre of it
With more bizarre behaviour like dressing strangely (top and knickers only) or undressing in public, ( rolling naked in the mud in the park) praying in the road, absconding, etc
Laughing odly
I had no idea what she was going on about or what made her like that. After 3 usual episodes I became severe I think in 2003 - 2006 off and on
I had a terrible prognosis at that point but I’m 14 years out of hospital now
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yes. its always an individual mess. everything is on a scale, fine.but dose it happened to you, that someone said to you “you dont look like sz” when under your shirt are marks that some delusion god told you to paint them in order to save your building from the rage of some other god? (for example…this scenario never happened to me, i had more crazy)
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For me “severe” means how much you are detached from actual reality.
That would be severe in my opinion because it’s completely detached from reality.
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hey. that is toughly a horrible tragedy, so sorry to hear such sad ending, glad to hear that you are more or less o.k.
you ensured the question with a clear painful, real trough.
thank you
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Yea I agree with that
My sister had the kind of alien delusional state of her being from an alien egg that was not the same alien as my mum and was in the wrong side of an alien war
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People can’t tell I have sz when on meds. They just think that I am not working because I am lazy. But before sz I wasn’t lazy, I was working and studying.
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Thank you for your words
I appreciate it
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o.k. I see, interesting point, so man can look like sort of normal, in some times, but to be in a sever state. i know that paranoid sz have the most “normal look” of all tips. for example.
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yes, I don’t work also in a real job. it will be too much for me. sometimes it is so hard to go outside or see people when the symptoms are high,
we live in such grate era, we can study and creat at home, be handled by the state.
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Occupationally: Severe ,never worked.
Socially: Quite severe, very few friends over 64 years.
Cognitively: mild to very mild.
DSM/ICD criteria: moderate at worst.
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I guess severe schizophronia means the time where you turn homicidal and end up killing your own self. Hahaha funny right since its over when that happens.
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I’ve never run into anybody who has a “mild” case of schizophrenia. I think most people’s cases are severe in the beginning of their disease. Some people’s case might be severe longer or get worse than others. I would certainly say my case was severe. Now I’m doing alright.
But mine was severe enough that I lived in a group home when I was 19 for a year and immediately afterwards spent 8 months in the hospital.
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speaking about mild I have that type of sz and I need help bringing it down and out of my case. Can someone help me because the psychologist doesn’t want to help me in that .
Ask yourself the question, Does my problem affect me from living my life and functioning in society? If the answer is yes it is severe, the degree of severity is another question, depends on what you are experiencing and how you are coping.
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Think that will help I’m more concerned with what I can tell my psychologist for me to reduce the mild charges
In my opinion you have severe schizophrenia if you not only can’t work but need support 24/7.
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