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19 Answers to "I have a mental illness (schizophrenia), how does that make you feel? What do you believe of this illness?"

  1. sonrisa8 - 22-25 years old - female

    Posted by sonrisa8 Jul 27th, 2012 at 8:27AM

    I am a doctor. I worked with a lot of schizophrenic patients during training. I like the statement above where they said "it doesn't define you". That's true. I know it is hard especially with the side effects which frustrate but do not stop taking meds. Have you seen the beautiful mind movie? did you see blind and handicapped poor people surviving so well being functional. Human beings are not perfect. You just have an illness, we all have some bad habits in our characters that stay with us forever. It is also like our illness individually(spiritual piece of mind). I am sure you have support? I am sure you are strong enough to live with your condition. Have some faith. be positive. God bless!

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  2. MsTarantism - female

    Reply by MsTarantism Dec 29th, 2012 at 5:59AM

    I see this a lot with my patients too. Well said.

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  3. MsTarantism - female

    Reply by MsTarantism Dec 29th, 2012 at 6:00AM

    I see this in a lot of that in my patients too..Very well said.

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  4. Zenny123 - 46-50 years old - male

    Posted by Zenny123 Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:02PM

    I think that schizophrenia is like any other illness and it happens at rates of about 1/100 people. It is not your fault or the fault of your family. I think that there is lots of stigma and I find that Pat Deegan is a great advocate. She has a great website called Pat Deegan and associates. I have met her and like her view on “recovery”. I currently teach nurses but in the past have worked in mental health facilities. I wish you well.

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  5. Zenny123 - 46-50 years old - male

    Reply by Zenny123 Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:14PM

    I should add that Pat was diagnosed with schizophrenia herself at about 18 years old. She later got a PHD

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  6. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:40PM

    thanks i'll check the website out. i believe it's possible to recover but, if the claim is it's a lifelong illness it may be a rough road.

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  7. pegasuss - 61-65 years old - male

    Posted by pegasuss Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:02PM

    It's a mental illness that can be treated although meds are likely to be needed permanently, much like deep depression. Had some great conversations with schizoids when in the mental ward myslef for depression. Like you, we can be dangerous if untreated. And will be.

    No big deal, it's just another illness needing treatment. Like cancer is.

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  8. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:39PM

    i think every schizophrenia patient is different and everyone with a mental illness has a difficult life ahead. treatment is different from conventional illness and even bizarre this is the brain and i feel it's important to have it level but, when your not it make things to another vantage point.

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  9. stephaniebis - 56-60 years old - female

    Posted by stephaniebis Apr 13th, 2013 at 1:10PM

    I'm open to hearing about it. (But don't know much about it). Let us know.

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  10. lederman - 51-55 years old - female

    Posted by lederman Feb 2nd, 2013 at 8:26PM

    my sister has it , i think its nasty

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  11. PleaseBeFree - 22-25 years old - female

    Posted by PleaseBeFree Dec 4th, 2012 at 12:49PM

    My big brother is too. And i love every inch of him! He tells me stories that nobody else belives… but i belive :)
    I sometimes think the people that arnet mentaly ill are actually the sick ones…I hope that makes since... lol)

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  12. Steve1127 - 46-50 years old - male

    Posted by Steve1127 Nov 21st, 2012 at 6:47AM

    Schizophrenia aside from other forms of mental illness is so complex that many therapist have to make very certain that this is the cause of the psychosis.

    This is usually done with alot of counseling and specific medications that induce schizoid episodes.

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  13. nebulous123 - 26-30 years old - female

    Posted by nebulous123 Sep 15th, 2012 at 12:33AM

    I feel sorry for any pain it causes you. I believe there's a lot about this illness that people don't understand. I desperately want to understand what causes it and how to fix it.

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  14. JerfoneMnLCBZTE - 16-17 years old - male

    Posted by JerfoneMnLCBZTE Aug 13th, 2012 at 3:41PM

    Annoyed.. I don't know what that means.. or do I..? Maybe. .

    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... .. . . ......


    It makes me feel fine:D I don't care:D

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  15. DreamingZombie - 18-21 years old - female

    Posted by DreamingZombie Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:45PM

    I have no hate towards schizophrenia. YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING JUST LIKE OTHERS ARE, even I am

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  16. lol88 - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by lol88 Nov 24th, 2012 at 4:43PM

    thank you very much

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  17. realityofearth - 26-30 years old - female

    Posted by realityofearth Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:30PM

    Its really aliens/angels talking to u, when u hear ur name or à voice talk back an see what happens, dont move ur mouth use ur mind.

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  18. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:58PM

    i wouldn't know for i've no hallucinations but, i am perceived as though i do have them.

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  19. realityofearth - 26-30 years old - female

    Reply by realityofearth Jul 25th, 2012 at 10:20PM

    If u dont hear voices u aint got it, go to a different dr

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  20. CRIEE - 31-35 years old - female

    Posted by CRIEE Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:15PM

    I'm sorry that you have this illness,however I have a very good friend who also has schizophrenia an he is a wonderful man,but it took a long time for his doc to find a medication that worked for him.
    Now as long as he takes his med's regularly he does great and leads a full life,with friends,family ect.. I wish you the same luck.

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  21. bongus - 41-45 years old - male

    Posted by bongus Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:11PM

    i have a mental illness (bipolar) it makes me feel a bit of a kinship with you even if my diagnosis is different than yours. as far as what i believe of the illness? i think it gives you extra struggles, and i hope you're under care. i finally am, and it's helped.

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  22. AshleyMarie14 - 13-15 years old - female

    Posted by AshleyMarie14 Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:09PM

    My mom has it, and I've had the symptoms..so I understand what you're going through.....

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  23. FloridaLoyalist - 36-40 years old - male

    Posted by FloridaLoyalist Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:08PM

    I'm schizophrenic too. I think schizophrenia can be manageable, but sometimes medication helps. Schizophrenia's kind of a strange illness. I don't know what to make of it.

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  24. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:30PM

    i don't think i've talked to another schizophrenic.. it's a unclear medicated mindset i'm on and very strange i'm not the same person and no one knows that they know little of my illness and i know no facts of it. it's just a day by day pain.

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  25. FloridaLoyalist - 36-40 years old - male

    Reply by FloridaLoyalist Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:37PM

    I'm sorry to hear that the schizophrenia is a pain. There were times in my life when it was quite bad for me, too.

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  26. corbin00 - 31-35 years old - male

    Posted by corbin00 Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:07PM

    If you are just going to a free mental health place, please get another option to insure. Diagnosis's like schizophrenia and many other are all to often misdiagnosis you may be having simple brain seizures that can be corrected. Do not rely on proforma diagnostics to get you the correct answers.

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  27. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:28PM

    thanks for the advice currently i'm at a free clinic and want more better advance treatment i'm working on that. brain seizures you say? i did have a major head injury in the past i could swing either way but i'm already taking prescribed medication that is dangerous if you stop taking and that is the reason i'm need better treatment i don't know how i was diagnosed and i'm searching for the correct being within me not the made up paperwork these health professionals employed onto me.

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  28. corbin00 - 31-35 years old - male

    Reply by corbin00 Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:37PM

    Don't stop taking any psychotropic meds you are on. Head injury?? I would demand a EEG with not just the general interpretations; But also to be read by a neurosurgeon with some background on your mental health. Look all I'm saying if I had a diagnosis like that I would want to know how it came to be and the creditably of the Dr. giving it. That is if you were even seen by a Dr. and not a "Fill in and signed off on"

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  29. Beksinski - 22-25 years old - female

    Posted by Beksinski Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:03PM

    Honestly, I feel sorry for you mostly, that stinks! I feel like with that illness you're trapped between a crazy place or insane medication side effects. I took nursing though and we read articles on Schizophrenia written by a psychiatrist with schizophrenia...she hid her illness to get into medical school without stigma and then started writing to help others understand how difficult it is. So anything's possible I guess.

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  30. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:19PM

    yes the balance is hectic but, it is as any illness really. wow a psychiatrist with schizophrenia.. that is pretty successful, i too have aspirations to do something with my life that will help others understand the tense relationship i have between my mind and myself.

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  31. Beksinski - 22-25 years old - female

    Reply by Beksinski Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:20PM

    Good luck!

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  32. secret81 - 31-35 years old - female

    Posted by secret81 Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:00PM

    it blows snot

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  33. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:32PM

    there couldn't be anymore right to that answer.

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  34. pegasuss - 61-65 years old - male

    Reply by pegasuss Jul 26th, 2012 at 8:25PM

    You are disgusting and should be banned from the internet.

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  35. SilenceEvermore - 18-21 years old

    Posted by SilenceEvermore Jul 25th, 2012 at 8:59PM

    I don't feel anything. I don't believe much, aside from that it can have a serious impact on how you function.

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  36. scenicmind - 22-25 years old - male

    Reply by scenicmind Jul 25th, 2012 at 9:13PM

    true, i now have a lifetime illness that will affect how i can prosper and function.

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