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Can a Schizophrenic person hide there mental illness and never be diagnosed their entire life, and live as a normal person and never be found out except for themselves?
Yes many among the world do it!
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No it is not possible!
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I do it all the time!
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Your paranoid, call a shrink?
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Only a Psychiatrist can pull that off!
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Only a person who fakes Schizophrenia can pull that off?
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Maybe in the year 4000 that will happen!
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questionboy

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What Do Schizophrenic People Believe?
Posted: 06-08-07 03:56am

I am trying to research Schizophrenia to see what a Schizophrenic person actually witnesses in their Hallucinations. My neighbor accross the street from me, walks all over town talking and yelling, to thin air. It looks to me as if he thinks he is talking to a croud of 10 people, but he can be inside an empty room and go on forever. What does a Schizophrenic person actually see, witness and experience other then, 1 Hallucinations of voices that are not there, 2, Hallucinations of seeing things that are not there, 3 Hallucinations of smells that are not there, 4 Hallucinations of touch that are not there, 5 Hallucinations of tastes when there is no food in the mouth, other then the 5 sences being twisted into something false to create a Hallucination effect, what else does a Schizophrenic person actually live through in that false world that their illness creates? Why do they act it all out? What delusional beliefs do they hold other then "The TV is broadcasting special messages to me", "The radio is broadcasting my thoughts live to the world", "The world is coming after me to take me away, the world is ending!!"

Can a Schizophrenic person live a normal life without ever being diagnosed or realizing it? Can a Schizophrenic person realize that they are different then normal society and be Schizophrenic but keep it secret all their live, then die of old age and never ever be diagnosed or noticed as a Schizophrenic by anyone other then the Schizophrenic person themselves? Can a Schizophrenic person be Schizophrenic all their life but successfully hide it from society and die of old age as the rest of the world, and keep it so secret that they are never diagnosed with any mental illness? I have heard a few rumors that some but not all Schizophrenic people can pull that off. If that is true, why can't all Schizophrenics do that, and why can other Schizophrenics do that?

Also I once heard of someone who wanted FREE disablity money from the government so they decided to fake having hallucinations so that a psychiatrist can diagnose them as Schizophrenic so that they can get anti-psychotics to sell on the street and also at the same time get disability money from the government, is that actually possible for a person to fake out hearing voices, seeing hallucinations, and act it out real enough so that mental health officials classify that person as mentally ill? Can a mental health professional or a psychiatrist detect who is really Schizophrenic and who is faking it? Can they determine who is Schizophrenic and who just faking it for government disability money even if the person who fakes it takes the perscribed meds to pass blood tests? And finally do all Schizophrenic people get paranoid? The ones that do get paranoid, what other paranoid beliefs do they hold besides, "They are coming after me"? and "I must do it, they told me to" Do Schizophrenic people believe they are Jesus Christ like that famous guy with the kool-aid?
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ONDERDONK

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Posted: 06-19-07 17:27pm

i'm diagnosed schizotypal, when i try to act sane, and schizphrenic when i want to vent. i think i am schizophrenic when i'm dreaming, or somewhat when severely stressed or exhasted. otherwise i can hide it, and yes, go through life undiagnosed, on no meds. i'm 41. hold a semi-regular consulting job, working a few weeks a month and living on it, by myself, 'cause i am too "sick" to keep a relationship - i give up. it's the illness or the relationship, and i pick the illness. i'ma shaman. small difference between sz and smanism - the dreamer must control the dream, not the dream the dreamer.
I have posted tons of my delusions and hallucinations, dream recall and shamanic journeying, on other forums. whereever they give me attention.
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