I'm Desparate For Answers... Posted: 11-19-05 13:18pm
I'm currently in therapy and taking
medication (risperdal) for auditory
hallucinations and bi-polar symptoms. My
therapist has repeatedly stated that the
fact that I only experience "hearing
voices" and other sounds (auditory
hallucinations) while at home is not usual
of schizophrenic behavior. In fact, he
has suggested i'm the brunt of a cruel
joke. The experiences I have had thus far
(for 7 months - moreover for the last 3
months and increasing even w/medication)
are so real to me I have experienced loss
of time out of fear during certain
"episodes". Most recently, my therapist
suggested my symptoms were solely related
to my environment. Has anyone else
experienced or heard of such isolated
symptoms? I find myself wanting to prove
that i'm mentally ill and in fact have
schizophrenia rather than the suggested
alternative. Help...
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slam
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 100
Posted: 12-30-05 18:39pm
That's very strange. I recommend finding
another home and you will be cured. You
may be distress when you go home which can
affect the neurotransmitters in your
brain. You should get off the medication
though because the longer you stay on it,
the more dependent you will be with it.
The brain actually changes its structure
because of it.
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aimee23
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Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 10 Location: preston
Vejungling Posted: 01-04-06 15:41pm
It sounds to me you are confused about
your diagnosis! If your therapist is
prescribing medication he is treating you
for something. This may be bipolar.
Often people experience hallucinations
when manic but usually you would
experience some other symptom of mania. I
would speak to ur therapist and ask him
what your diagnosis is after all you are
taking medication. If he feels you dont
need it why prescribe it? It is expensive
aswell! Hope this is of help to you
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slam
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 100
Posted: 02-18-06 18:50pm
aimee23
wrote:
it sounds to me you are
confused about your diagnosis!
psychiatrists are guessing if they
diagnose people under 2.5 years. So far
that is the longest I know who had
recovered from schizophrenia.
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Kd121
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Uk
Posted: 11-14-06 12:35pm
I really don't believe schizophrenia is a
disease.
This article has a good explanation of the
point I am making:
" if one follows the concept of organic
illness exclusively, it may tend to
reduce socially unacceptable behaviors to
quirks and impulses of the brain. The
person suddenly hits someone, or yells and
curses at them, spends all day in bed, or
aggressively overeats. This behavior is
then both explained and excused as
thought disorder, or malfunctioning of the
brain. This concept of medical illness
tends, I believe, to decrease the humanity
of people with this condition by stating,
in effect, that they no longer have the
capacity for choice or free will over
their own responses, that they are victims
whose behavior is determined by the
vagaries of the disease.
Are people with schizophrenia responsible
for the choices they make in regards to
their actions? I have heard of people
with this condition terrorizing others,
their parents, roommates or caregivers,
with excessive demands, impulsive
overeating, cursing and physical threats,
while this behavior is excused as an
organically based disorder for which the
"patient" is not responsible. If we
consider people as having the power of
choice or free will as a sign of their
humanity, and we take away the sense of
responsibility for their actions from
people designated as mentally ill, are we
not also depriving them of an essential
part of their humanity as well?"
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V1RU5
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Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Earth
Posted: 04-12-07 03:05am
Hmmmmmmmmm
Psychosis
A severe mental disorder, with or without
organic damage, characterized by
derangement of personality and loss of
contact with reality and causing
deterioration of normal social
functioning.
as a reply to kd121
People who experiance that which is unkown
to them can cause them to act through
primal insticts, as to them accepting
resposibility.. its up to them....... is
that by the sane mind ever concious? or
just out of tune towards mundane reality..
The mind needs to stretch....
answer to vejungling
your not alone, i too hear voices... i
find them quite amusing wandering what
they would say, like listening to radio,
mostly heard at....
Iam on resperidone for 2 years, i accept
this trial as a test for my karma... my
frontal lobe will grow even though after
the shrinkage it will occur...
Iam more than happy to take this test
SLAM....
What kind of voices do you hear? I say the
enlightening mantra as i go to sleep...
and listen to the voices....
There are a few conclusions, one you
absorb the thoughts of others as you pass
through the day, as thoughts carry a
vibrations around their askashic halos...
the next is a clash of multiple egos, the
ganapthi mantra helps with this....
It is where one stops to observe
themselves.... will allow new doors to
open and windows to shine with truth....
Those who occur demons with their
problems, i can only advice you to
dicipline of the mind... eat healthy,
excersise, try yoga or Tai Chi... be one
with the mother spirit and the rain of
agony will only fall short..
The thoughts i hear are the very rain that
falls upon my minds pond, allow it to
drop, but let it echo out... and be like a
mountain, firm and unchangeable....
Those who pryed their minds open with
drugs, some drugs opens the mind while
others effect the conciousness.... you
will endure the karma for that, but your
not alone... many have fallen upon this
path and have chossen a life of
enlightenment, the search for truth and
live in unity with the absolute love of
life... is it in the nature of beings to
be supersticious or religious.. my
friends.. religon and spirituality dont
come hand to hand....
but feed your minds and spirit and accept
that you only have fallen, only to get
back up... and back up you shall go......
