Posted by scribble'ntweak on December 21, 2004, at 19:13:37
In reply to SCHIZOPHRENIA - with or without voices, posted by pretty_paints on December 12, 2004, at 13:17:22
> This post is just to see if I can gather together people suffering from Schizophrenia. There arn't many posts aimed at this illness particularly. Maybe because the majority of people on this site suffer from depression and anxiety? Or maybe people suffering with schizophrenia just don't post so frequently.
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> Anyway the point of this is, I'm looking for people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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> 1) What was the onset of your illness?
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> 2) How did things progress, was it gradual or sudden? Did you end up in hospital?
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> 3) What type of symptoms did you have? Can you give any examples of the delusions or paranoia you suffered from?
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> 4) Do you hear voices or hallucinate?
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> 5) How long did it take to be diagnosed?
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> Thanks so much for all your replies. xxxxxThe onset of my illness was 17. It progressed gradual. First I started hearing my name wispered in my ears. I thought my brother was always following me and saying my name. Then I would talk to people in my house who at the time I thought were spirits. I would make them food and leave it upstairs for them to eat. I believed that "they" were always with me and watching everything I did. I would wonder what they thought when I did certain things, or went certain places. Then I became paranoid that aliens were abducting me, and even thought that they took out my unborn baby and replaced him with one of their own kind. For the first several weeks I was convinced that my son was an alien baby. I thought that owls were trying to send me messages, and have smelled hyacinth in the dead of winter, assuming it to be spirits trying to communicate with me. I have had numerous occasions where I believed I was being followed. I have found myself in places having no recolection of how I got there. Now I take abilify and klonopin and have no hallucinations/delusions. I have managed to stay out of hospitals largely because I am introverted, I have tended to keep my delusions to myself. and also because I live in a very rural area where we have no hospitals. Even thought the medication helps remarkably, I am still skeptical of its safety and feel we are all human guinea pigs. Oh well, life in short.
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