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Q: Disconnected periods - Schizophrenia ?
asked by: hannibal_88 on October 21st, 2009
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Hi,I am 19 years old female living in quebec.
I have started feeling depressed at 12 years old. I felt deressed because I would feel empty and emotionless, very disconnected. Never had treatment until I had a major depression at 17/18 yrs where I was followed by psychiatrist and treated with celexa(anti depressant), and various calming pills (imovan, remeron, ativan etc. and was much better. I am not on pills right now for depression. However, I can recall weird stuff happening troughout my teenage years: I would hear my name called, see things that are not there and sometimes I would be in a catatonic state, or sometimes I just felt very anxious and paranoid (walls waving), I sometimes feel very aggressive and have fantasies of hurting people ( I have many different fantasies it was like I lived in them) or I am imagining things that I am not sure after if then happened or not etc. I am concerned because approximatly 3 or 4 months ago symptoms reappered and it is more frequent.In my "disconnected periods" I often self-mutilate and I don't even know why. Over the past weekend I heared my door ring repeatedly in my head and it wouldnt go away or very low mumbling (i can never understand what it is saying) and I felt weird, very anxious and paranoid I even hit my ears a couple of time to make it stop.I have trouble sleeping. Yesterday, I was not feeling good either I started to be nervous (heart beat fast) and anxious for absolutely no reason. I had a fight with my partner but she could not follow what I was saying, it was not clear at all,and I told her things she didnt do. I felt everything and particularly me very awkward, some sort of disconnection. I have been feeling withdrawn and very "in my head", altough I never was a social person, I like to be alone. I did not want my partner to touch me because I felt really scared because I had the feeling it wasnt really my partner, that she was somebody else. I have started taking drugs regularly at age 18 (mostly weed)and I think it might have worsen my case. I am scared it is going to get worse, right now I would say it is episodic, but I am afraid it will become 24/7. What should I do???
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jgrib
replied on October 21st, 2009
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you sound like exactly what i went through except maybe i had less paranoia. if you ever wanna chat you can talk to me about whatever. i dont know if drugs are gonna help you but its hard with no support from others to get help.
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woops
replied on October 21st, 2009
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depression isn't a bad thing.
until everything is okay, be depressed.
why would you not be depressed is my question.

Paranoia isnt bad either.

Both of these so called disorders make a whole heap of logical sense.
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hannibal_88
replied on October 21st, 2009
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Thank you, I would very much like that.
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hannibal_88
replied on October 21st, 2009
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I do not understand your reply, woops.
I forgot to add that I have intense mood swings (up and down) very much similar to bipolar.
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jgrib
replied on October 22nd, 2009
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depression is a bad thing, you gotta try and see the light because there is so much more to life than being down. I think you just need some sort of support that you can go to when your feeling down or out of it. I use some mindful meditation techiniques that helped me get control of being able to not listen to voices and it also gave me a nice deep peace feeling. even though i still get hit with these times where i just withdraw from the world. You can beat depression it is possible. find support and if you dont really have anybody that you can trust you can always tell me stuff when no one else will listen.
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woops
replied on October 22nd, 2009
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I was talking about the part of your post that talked about paranoia and depression.

My question is why would'nt you be paranoid or depressed.
I mean c'mon, look at the situation.

To be happy in the situation we are in now is insane.
To feel as if you are safe and cuddly and floating around on big puffy clouds in this situation is also insane.

And I agree depression is bad, but you have to fix the situation not medicate the depression without fixing anything. You fix what's causing the depression.
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robbo79
replied on November 5th, 2009
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to woops... I think I understand the general idea where you're coming from. the positive symptoms of mental illness can be embraced to some extent, but delusional thinking will eventually make someone so unhappy that cannot function at all.

you haven't really explained what you mean by 'the situation'... Things in this world are far from perfect, but is that a reason for every one of us to be depressed and paranoid? I don't think so.

the asker is telling us about some completely irrational feelings of paranoia, that are making it hard to live life to the full.

just people can be born without arms, eyes, kidneys etc, some are born with a chemical imbalance in their brains, that makes it hard (but not impossible) to have fulfilling relationships with others. sometimes (not always) it may be best to take treatment to correct that chemical imbalance.

hannibal_88 - you'll be ok, but just try to be honest with yourself and others around you who you can trust (I know that can be very difficult at times). good luck!
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