Why is so difficult to have schizophrenia?
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We have so many symptoms.
So many strange symptoms.
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Challenge to overcome.
Good question. I met people with serious brain injuries (damage), one was missing a quarter of brain and she didnt have anhedonia or avolition. And people with sz can be more cognitively disabled than those with serious brain injuries as well. Something goes seriously wrong with sz.
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I think that I cannot work anymore.
I’m feeling so weird.
I’m with so many symptoms.
I’m so anxious.
This world is so strange also.
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For me, it’s because the illness and meds take away the core of who I am and what I find essential in life - my own emotions, love for and trust in other people, connection to God and nature. It’s not as if you lose something on the side lines of who you are… like your job or your leg.
I would give up everything else - my home, my stuff, my volunteer job, my money, my family, my friends, my physical health, my country - if only I could get rid of the psychosis and the meds. Get back my old self again.
You lose the core. That’s at least how I experience it.
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I know how is that.
I feel like I lose almost everything when I got sick. its a hard feeling to shake. I kept my partner, that’s pretty much it. even she said I have changed since when we first got together. I just wish people understand the complexity of schizophrenia and other illnesses,
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its difficult for me cause me too I am sooo space… I have symptoms since child, what is that for god sake? karma? wow… yeah…its hell also… no matter that there are some geniuses among us… the world is definitely strange place for us…
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no one can tell we have it and we are expected to act normal and live up too normal standards of functioning.
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I hate the meds more than anything. It makes you look like a fugitive high man. Or a sleep walking zombie. Or more like an insomniac completely drunk.
In the end, it’s always the same thing.
My voices just came like that, without symptoms. At what moment did my reality broke in half and my insanity took me down into the depths of the darkness?
Like B.G would say (when I was out of it): Hey literary dude! Enough of the little fairy, she’s gone, ended, dead, kaput! Well don’t say I didnt warn you. Like she said before:…
“I like words, but they dance in my head, escaping me and then disapear…”
@Andy
My only problem is alogia. If you cure my alogia I’m just as functional as any neurotypical.
what makes the world strange to you? Is it the way you hear voices of birds and insect nights?
i have lost about 12 houses/flats and everything in it, over the past few years becausse of Sz and how i feel detached from everyone and i dont like material stuff
i dont feel like i belong xxx
Because if it was fun, everyone would want it and then were would we be?
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Every disease on this planet comes with it’s limitations and special conditions and drawbacks. No one wants cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or lukemia etc. And no one wants schizophrenia.
But it is what it is.People get cancer and die, people get heart disease and then one day they are mowing their lawns or walking to the store and they drop dead from a heart attack. They didn’t ask to have heart disease. It just happens.And that’s how schizophrenia is. Before we got it, we were going along living our lives and going out for baseball, and annoying our sisters and going fishing and then we get this disease. It’s bad luck.
Diabetes can be fatal. Every disease has its symptoms. And our disease has it’s own symptoms. Unfortunately our disease gets stigmatized because people don’t understand us and people are often afraid of what they don’t understand. It is what it is.
Before I got schizophrenia myself, I was afraid of mentally ill people. This one statement I wrote should sum up and answer your post title.
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When I find the exit out of the labyrinth that is sz, you’ll be one of the first to know. So far I have encountered lots of blind turns and cul-de-sacs. The learning curve of this illness is precipitous, because it is incurably chronic. The negative symptoms sometimes make you feel zapped of energy. Adopting the right attitude with this illness, however, is half the battle. The rest is about morale support, luck, and of course medication.
Well…I have szA…but if that’s true then I was disabled at birth because I was diagnosed with autism at birth. Nobody cares about that now because I grew out of the spectrum. Basically I’m not like some of you because I don’t know any other way to be besides this weird way I am now.
Why is it so difficult to have schizophrenia? It’s difficult because of the way it changes things. Let’s just suppose for argument’s sake that I really do believe I have szA and I am on board with all of you. In my teenage years my life was a wreck and totally ruined. Before I moved to Nyack, NY, I was an honors student scoring very high grades and much respect in a prestigious high school, having finally earned it after many years of humiliating degradation for my weird ways. But then I got sick, and everything was completely turned around for me. I won’t go into details so as to confuse you because I know my experience is unique because I am unique. Suffice it to say, I was in and out of the hospital for the rest of my teenage years. Right until I was about to turn 18, I couldn’t seem to go more than three months or so without another hospitalization. I was confused. Frightened. Depressed. Lonely. Miserable. Crying hysterically every day. Getting the anal injection once or twice a day. I had the quiet room and the four point restraints. Doctors chanting the word “denial” at me. Voices cackling in my head. The pain and tension were astronomical. I had my world turned upside down in an instant, like an upside down cake. The prognosis was very slim. Now instead of two distinguished teachers saying I would never make to the third grade (because I was a remedial student who had been placed in regular classes), I had long lines of distinguished doctors in white coats saying I would never be able to live outside of a mental institution.
I agree with some of the sentiments espressed on this thread. It is a very intriguing question for me, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to respond.
That’s unlikely. Symptoms generally don’t surface before a year of age and it is EXTREMELY difficult to diagnose under the age of two.
They say you can diagnose at birth by measuring the size of the baby’s skull. I don’t know. I wasn’t aware enough at birth to be able to testify that I was diagnosed.
My sister and I (we’re twins) both went to early intervention when we were three, my mom tells me. Neither of us reached our milestones on time. I had speech problems up until the third grade.
My disability paperwork lists the date my disability started as my date of birth. I don’t know why this is. Possibly it’s not important.