Need Help....very Confused..am I Schizophrenic Or Not??? Posted: 05-04-07 11:04am
Hey, i'm waiting 2 see my psychaitrist t
find out whether i hav schizophrenia, i
reli do not think it is true, but i
decided i wuld c wat other people think.
i basically get these people following me
who are going 2 get me sometime, they
never specify when. i dont know what they
r going to do to me, but it is very bad,
and will most likely be the worst possible
thing they can do. i hav sumtimes seen
them n they talk 2 me n tell me 2 do
things that are stupid, like jump out a
window. i accept that other people cant
see them, but there is no doubt that they
r there, and i think they couldnt just be
created in my head. they hav also recently
been telling me that i have to stop
eating, and that all food is dirty inside
me. i have been desperately eating to try
and stop the beginnings of anorexia, but
its just getting worse.
i have already been diagnosed with OCD,
depression and anxiety...dus any1 hav a
clue what my psychaitrist may be thinking?
thanks guys...
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Stan
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Posted: 05-05-07 08:35am
It sounds more like basic psychosis
because you're not yet at the state where
it seems like everything is real to you,
you're questioning it. Are you being
treated for depression? If left
untreated, it can lead to psychosis.
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Josie12345
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... Posted: 05-05-07 08:53am
I am being treated...but does that mean i
need to be treated for psycosis as well
?
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Stan
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Posted: 05-05-07 09:56am
How real are these things to you? Are you
actually, honestly seeing them right
before you or out of the corner of your
eye? Do you question their existence?
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Josie12345
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... Posted: 05-05-07 10:56am
I know they are there, there is no doubt
about that. my mind cannot make them up,
because i am petrified of them. i have
seen them, but not for long, because they
are always behind me, and they talk to me
through my right ear, and i can feel them
there. i do know that other people cannot
see them or hear them though.
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Stan
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Posted: 05-05-07 13:28pm
Do you have any other symptoms? I have
never heard of the disorders you've
mentioned leading up to this. Were you
ever tested for physical problems or have
any unresolved physical symptoms?
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Josie12345
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... Posted: 05-05-07 14:14pm
From schizophrenia? I have slowly become
more isolated from my friends because I
dont like being with people anymore,
because i get panicky because i think that
they may be one of the people who are
following me. I have difficulty
concentrating, mainly because of the
voices. I also do not care about work
anymore..which i didnt think was a
symptom, but i found out it could be.
Also, i sometimes get episodes where i
feel very weird and almost elated. I often
do very stupid and impulsive things during
these episodes, such as running across a
busy road or swallowing way too many pills
of some sort. Thats all i can think of,
but i keep on discovering things that i
thought were normal, but turn out to be
abnormal. What dyou mean by physical
symptoms?
thankyou by the way.
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Stan
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Posted: 05-05-07 14:36pm
I mean like blurred vision, flu-like
sensations without a temperature, and so
forth. I suggest you go get some help, it
sounds like your mind is in need of
treatment. An inpatient, voluntary stay
at the hospital may be your best option.
You don't want to let this go any further.
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Josie12345
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... Posted: 05-05-07 15:02pm
I sometimes get blurred vision, but only
for seconds at a time. Really...? I dont
think thats necessary, im not sure its
anything serious. Plus im still at school,
so its pretty impossible. Why would you
think that?
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Stan
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Posted: 05-05-07 15:29pm
Because from what you said you're
beginning to totally isolate yourself from
things that aren't even there. However,
you still have a grasp of the fact that
they shouldn't be there, so thus you could
go for treatment willingly. If it gets
bad enough, you'll be involuntarily put
into treatment, which stays with you for a
long, long time. How could you not think
this is serious? You're experiencing
hallucinations, a signal that something is
wrong. But also, are you having anything
else? Extreme headaches? Sore throat
with no temperature? Anything unusual
other than mental symptoms?
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Josie12345
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... Posted: 05-05-07 15:39pm
Ermm, i do get alot of headaches, but that
might be due to lack of sleep, or the fact
that i have bruxism while sleeping. So do
you have any idea whether this could all
be down to one condition or not..?
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Posted: 05-05-07 15:52pm
Well, I'm always on the side of physical
problems first and foremost, because all
medication for mental symptoms simply
masks whatever may be causing it. If you
have a physical problem at the root, it
will never get better and you'll only get
worse in time. In my experience, my
problem was hypoglycemia. I actually
believed I was in the Truman Show for
awhile with extreme delusions. I think at
one point I thought that there were
cameras in bagels and fruit flies. Once I
got my diet right, my symptoms, also a ton
of physical ones (headaches, sore throat,
blurred vision, etc.) went away. So it
could, yes, possibly be tied into one
problem. You need to find what it is
though because you have a slew of things
going on. When did this start? Do you
notice any changes depending on what
you're doing, eating, etc?
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Josie12345
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... Posted: 05-05-07 16:01pm
I actually have no idea. The
depressiveness has been here on and off
for 5 years now, but the people hav
decided to follow me for about the last
two years, but they are talking to me now,
and also i have seen them more. I nearly
almost stopped eating for a week because
they told me to, but that was a couple of
weeks age, and im eating completely
normally now. I know im finding it more
difficult to do small things, but i think
that is just down to my other conditions.
What else do you mean? Were you diagnosed
with anything?
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Posted: 05-05-07 16:24pm
Well then it sounds like it's getting
worse and you need to do something. I was
first diagnosed as ocd, and then
depressed, and then gad and then eb virus
and then I figured it out myself.
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Posted: 05-05-07 23:53pm
What was it Stan? Even with medicines
great progress, they still have a long way
to go. As medicine advances, do you think
disease will do the same?
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Posted: 05-06-07 08:12am
I have a severe case of reactive
hypoglycemia. My pancreas simply
overreacts in the presence of certain
foods, it drops my blood sugar below
normal and I get really strange. Hasn't
happened in awhile though because I eat
right now, though I can get worn out
easily sometimes. Well, I'm not sure what
you mean. If you consider anti-biotics,
yes disease will progress and overcome
what we've done. In terms of psychotropic
drugs, however, they're never going to
work until we actually figure out how the
brain works, which no one seems to care
about and we've been in the dark about for
say, oh, around 200 years.
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Dear Josie Posted: 05-14-07 05:34am
As Stan said,its important to rule out any
physical(organic) cause.
Have you had an MRI etc?
When the voices tell you to do things like
not eat because 'all food is dirty inside
of you',does it help at all to question
the truth/evidence of what they're
saying,for example:"on one hand,I've got
these voices telling me food is dirty
inside of me but on the other hand
parents,Doctors,Nutritionists etc say that
food is important and very good for my
body, so what these voices are suggesting
must be wrong?
If you try for example yawning or humming
when these voices talk to you do you still
hear them?
Have you been prescribed any antipsychotic
medication and has it made any
difference?
Stan Stepanic
wrote:
I have a severe case of
reactive hypoglycemia. My pancreas simply
overreacts in the presence of certain
foods, it drops my blood sugar below
normal and I get really strange. Hasn't
happened in awhile though because I eat
right now, though I can get worn out
easily sometimes. Well, I'm not sure what
you mean. If you consider anti-biotics,
yes disease will progress and overcome
what we've done. In terms of psychotropic
drugs, however, they're never going to
work until we actually figure out how the
brain works, which no one seems to care
about and we've been in the dark about for
say, oh, around 200
years.
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Don't Panic Posted: 05-16-07 06:59am
I have been through paranoia. Paranoia is
tricky because it blends elements of
reality - news, history, actual people -
with events and imagination. I also
thought that the 'mafia' and the 'police'
and the 'government' and 'CIA' were after
me, 'bullying' me with voices inside my
head. I thought that they could 'monitor'
and 'screen' my mind.
I felt 'threatened' and that I
was living a 'last stand.'
It also was unspecified when
'they' would get me.
It was all ILLUSION. It was all
IMAGINATION. None of it is REAL.
Rest asured that no one can scan
or read your mind. No one knows what
thoughts you harbour. These voices are
not 'theirs' but your own. These 'people'
out to get you are only a mask of your
fear. Do not let fear control you. Don't
panic. The only 'conspiracy' the world
works on you is to make your life better
and brighter - it is the 'conspiracy' of
LOVE! Hope this helps.................
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mkor4
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Re: Don't Panic Posted: 05-16-07 09:47am
What did you do or take to stop the
paranoia etc?
guru44
wrote:
I have been through
paranoia. Paranoia is tricky because it
blends elements of reality - news,
history, actual people - with events and
imagination. I also thought that the
'mafia' and the 'police' and the
'government' and 'CIA' were after me,
'bullying' me with voices inside my head.
I thought that they could 'monitor' and
'screen' my mind.
I felt 'threatened' and that I
was living a 'last stand.'
It also was unspecified when
'they' would get me.
It was all ILLUSION. It was all
IMAGINATION. None of it is REAL.
Rest asured that no one can scan
or read your mind. No one knows what
thoughts you harbour. These voices are
not 'theirs' but your own. These 'people'
out to get you are only a mask of your
fear. Do not let fear control you. Don't
panic. The only 'conspiracy' the world
works on you is to make your life better
and brighter - it is the 'conspiracy' of
LOVE! Hope this
helps.................
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guru44
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Paranoia Buffers Posted: 05-16-07 11:56am
The haldol on initial emergency treatment
stopped the nightmare. But there were
other phases and spells, that were lived
through with other meds. To get to the
point - zyprexa and risperdal work for the
paranoia,(zyprexa can cause diabetes.)
Risperdal is 'safer.' Lithium is also
effective. To be honest I've had mild
paranoid spells while on risp and abilify,
but never with zyprexa. I guess I have to
live with whatever paranoia brings, and I
sometimes feel 'hunted down.'
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