So while talking to my kid’s school nurse we gottotalking about being low income. I said I didn’t work because of being schizoaffective . She turned and gave this surprised look and went “Really? You can’t tell. I would never have guessed!”
sometimes this is flattering and other times I am like, but you don’t have any idea of how I struggle. It’s hard to look normal. Most people just think I’m a little eccentric if anything.
I got the reaction, when telling my boss I have schizophrenia, that he thought I “was just a quiet guy”.
Nope I used to talk a lot more but now I can’t think of anything to talk about. Poverty of speech and thought is what they call that.
She probably expected to see you acting crazy which you probably do not. Seems to be my biggest problem with the way the current treatment is. They can clear up the positive symptoms for me. That doesnt mean that I feel good inside. Most pdocs dont seem to understand how bad it is or care. All they care about is that your positives are gone.
darling, its global problem, most of the time they actually dont have idea how sz look like
because the only place when it is noticeable are moves and some poor homeless people
Its kind of a compliment and offensive at the same time.
Its like,
What exactly does a schizophrenic person look/act like to you?
Once I was seeing a new doctor and reviewing my medical history and she told me i didn’t look schizophrenic.
Was it because I had just gotten off work and was wearing a suit?
Was it because I wasn’t rambling about aliens?
Who knows.
But it made me feel like they look down on schizophrenics and expect them to be a certain (crazy) way.
That’s how I feel. Like now that they know what do they expect? Me to run naked through town? I regret telling her now because she’s a terrible gossip. There was one of my symptoms, oversharing. Nowthe entire town will know. In one way Iam like fine…because I try to be out and proud…then my paranoia kicks in.
Of course the drug users are more ofa topic than anything.
Thank God I paid off my home b4 I got ocd and sza
I do. And I wish my mom had been more like instead. You are AMAZING.
Hmm… I don’t think they meant it as anything bad. It’s just a sign that you’re high functioning. When people find out that I have schizophrenia, they tend to say things more along the lines of “ooooh, that explains a lot.”
I think odd people are fairly commonplace. People accept even quite eccentric people as part of the herd.
Minds are like icebergs, only 10% of what’s going on in there is visible on the surface.
This is because positive symptoms can result in behaviour that can upset Joe Public. Negative symptoms that have an adverse effect on the individual are not seen as being as important.
Joe Public > Person with psychosis/schizophrenia
This can be seen in the way that when you reach middle age and the acute,positive symptoms have lessened you become less of a priority.
Negative symptoms can cause a great impact on your quality of life. Reasons I think I’m on disability. They should at the very least inform you that you may very well suffer from these. Nobody had ever bothered to do that in the almost 11 years I’ve been being treated. I think something is wrong here.
What you say is very true. I had a lot more interaction with mental health professionals in the first 9 years of having a mental illness than I did after that .
I don’t think that’s all of it. There’s not much to be done about negative symptoms that aren’t related to depression, and as far as I’m aware, negatives don’t destroy the brain in the same way that positives do.
note: I’m not trying to start an argument. I’m just trying to be better about giving people the benefit of the doubt.
That begs the question “How much can benefit of the doubt be stretched ?”
hei ones some one tolled me-
you? schizophrenic? they just say that, they say that some time, you at the most just hi.
lol. and that that guy told me wile my friend delusion of that half of year, one of the goddesses of the chaotic dimension looked at him with a very hungry msil.
wehat can you tell,
stup*d
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