Who has a therapist that has gone over her\his experiences with schizophrenia?
I have a problem find one, social workers don’t know medicine and medical doctors don’t have time to analyze my disease…
I’ve had many therapists, but we never talk about the specifics of my hallucinations or delusions. We don’t go deep at the very least, just some generalizations. All of the emphasis is on how the symptoms/delusions affect me and how I can create strategies and routines to maintain my insight and keep my stress level low. Lower stress means fewer symptoms and better insight. My current one is on me to grow my support network.
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@anon82948922 I really like posts like this because they let me know that I’m doing things right and that what I’m experiencing, like higher stress levels make things worse, and focusing on how you can maintain insight into what’s really going on are central to well, keeping it together. 
I feel like I belong more when I see things like this and I’ve never really had that. So, thank you. 
I’m not sure how I can better make you understand how much it really means to me.
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Nothing to go over. I have friends and family to bounce off ideas but it was pretty easy for me to write off that whole psychosis experience. I wasn’t thinking straight so I’ve nothing to explore. I got an hour with a shrink when I lived in the states and I’d bring my mrs in because I’d run out of things to talk about.
Here I get 15 minutes with a top notch shrink. That is more than enough to maintain. Like I know people do well with therapy but I’m a fan of that @anon82948922 approach. It’s strategies for getting well over rememberance of unrealities.
That’s why I am comparing my condition with other schizophrenic people. I think my hallucinations were really different. They were more or less like reality but way more emphasized like movies similarity of what happened to reality makes me think I dont have schizophrenia. That’s why I am here to better understand because I can’t find a therapist who accepts to dig into my past and my delusions. I had psychosis at some point when young but I do not think it was schizophrenia, times i started to hear was when I stopped anti-psychotic. And since never ever drs talked with me about my experiences I doubt the diagnosis too and that’s natural I think…
Therapists aren’t in the business of making you sicker. Not the legit ones, anyhow.
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It’s like seeing someone on certain drugs. You can tell from physical things like pupils/eyes, energy levels etc. It’s pretty obvious if you know what your looking for.
It’s far from a perfect science and all we have is medications to alleviate such things which are still pretty harsh but it’s still the same. It’s pretty obvious if your psychotic for most people. I hit emergency a couple of times and it didn’t take long from me explaining what was happening for them to get an idea.
This is a good place to find similar people. For example. I thought I was Jesus reborn for a while. Came here and met 5 other Jesus for sure.
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I didn’t think that I had schizophrenia for quite awhile after I was diagnosed either. Lack of insight is common.
It took me taking an AP regularly and some time for me to slowly realize that my delusions were just delusions and looking back now I can clearly see that they were symptoms of schizophrenia.
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In my case the problem is they say they dont have info about the medical part…
My problem is no dr asked me about any of my experience, nothing isnt that strange? at least you told them something. But in my case they trusted what was reported to them by a few people around me… And thos people in real life dont care about me…
Schizophrenia and related disorders are all smoke and mirrors. The content usually isn’t the problem which is why good mental health people don’t ask certain things because if someone is psychotic they are drawn into that web no matter what they do.
There’s reasons for action. I don’t know your case but it isn’t healthy dwelling on delusions or hallucinations. That is what I am saying.
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In my case, I had 2 separate parts, the whole picture was sort of right but details and how the story was going on was unreal which you are right there’s no use of thinking about that part…
Yeah if we had the lords supper table at the forum it would be 12 Jesus’s instead of 12 disciples lol
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The content of the delusions makes all the difference as to whether they are harmful or dangerous. For example, to me, my erotomanic delusions were the most harmful as they led me to make a fool of myself thinking someone was in love with me. In general, the delusions that you act on (as if they are true) have the most potential to cause harm.
-Albert.
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