So very frequently when I go somewhere, like for example the grocery store, random people will say something abusive to me. I usually ignore it and go about my business but sometimes I snap back. Like today. I know it is probably best to just ignore people but then I start hating myself for letting abusive people get away with it. But then I end up not liking myself for snapping back.
Anyone else? What do you think I should do in these situations?
Don’t snap back. Let other people be negative and you stay positive. They only say negative things because they are unhappy in life. Just leave them with their negativity and you can feel good knowing you didn’t let it change you.
Can I hear an example of what they’d say?
I’ll be able to tell whether it was real or imagined.
Well I saw the lips move so I am pretty sure it is real. The first one today maybe not. But the second yes, it was a vulgar suggestion.
The sick thing is you can imagine lips moving as well. Can’t trust your senses with this illness.
I probably shouldn’t respond but sometimes my temper gets to me. any suggestions?
also I posted this on another thread and it applies to this whole incident
“Despite what anyone ever tells me, I know my mental health part of it was caused by PTSD. I had/have a combo of food sensitivities and low vitamins and PTSD. I am a survivor and I never got justice. I was stalked for decades. I am not going to be further marginalized by a label that basically says everything you see or hear is a hallucination. This disempowers victims of abuse.”
It doesn’t “disempower victims of abuse” to say schizophrenics are actually hallucinating.
I am schizophrenic. I hear weird insults and ■■■■and feel they’re directed to me all the time. I’m not going to get in a physical altercation with these people on account of my broken brain making ■■■■up, it would make a bad problem worse.
But it doesn’t mean all incidents are hallucinations
You’re basically saying that people will randomly insult you for no reason. People just aren’t that vicious.
We are absolute fiends to ourselves, subconsciously. It’s being projected on to what we sense, in a manner only we can perceive.
Ah sadly where I live people are that vicious. It is very tense here.
Peace to you.
Stick up for yourself mate - only the other day i had some old dog look at me and laugh and mumble “oh theres the nutter” - and then proceed to haress me to buy her beer - and lend her a tenner when i was in my local shop.
Small town here - full of gobshites that assume your thick, just cos you got schizophrenia.
(and no it wasnt in my head - my shopkeeper heard it as well)
You see I get conditioned into thinking “its all in my head” one time I was at a coffee shop with a friend and a woman in the table next to me said harassing comments about my ethnicity/race. I assumed I was hallucinating it. My friend looked at me and asked “are you going to put up with that?” so I handled it well, I think, I said I respect all people regardless of their race.
So then if I ignore something that is truly wrong because I think I am hallucinating it then that basically is like the idea that silence gives consent. Its an awful position to be in when you are someone who hates to have any attention drawn to them like me. If I could hide somewhere I would.
yes it happened again, but this time no one said anything, two guys wearing red bandanas followed me and stood on either side. I ignored them and walked away. Gang members maybe? They were dressed alike.
There has been a huge increase in crime in this county this year.
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