News of Psychotic Disorders

I've had this thought recently about getting a dog. I find it so hard to get accepted by people, most people think I'm crazy. I was thinking a dog might do me some good. I'll feel less lonely but they are a lot of work. Was anyone in a similiar postion and find having a dog helps them?

I found this article explains my schizophrenia perfectly. Lol, even I think some other schizophrenics are crazy. No wonder, ...

http://user.tninet.se/~yge389p/truth.htm

oh and if anyone knows of similar articles or books, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I know theirs quite a bit of anti-psych info out their about nutritional defiencys causing schizophrenia. Like red dyes and glutien and such. But everybody eats bread with glutein in it. So why does 1% of the population get schizophrenia from it. It really dosen't make much sense. Schizophrenia is a mental problem not a nutritional problem, but I could be wrong.

I've been battleing with some sort of psychosis for about a year now. My main problem consists of hearing voices, which then leads to some sort of paranoia or delusion.

I've been overmedicated at psych hospitals. I'm thankful for those people who come on here and enlighten people on World Health Studies done on schizophrenia and the cure rates in thrid world countries. I do believe that time is a great curer. With time comes ...

Hi! I am hoping that someone here can help me...I am writing this in regard to my mother. She is 77 yrs. old & suffers from terrible hallucinations, (she sees mostly people, some good, some bad..) but for the past few months she has been very paranoid when I take her out in the car with me, thinking that these people are following us, "out to get us" so to speak...She suffers from COPD & ...

Someone in this forum had mentioned that Alistair Munro's book Delusional Disorder: Paranoia and Related Illnesses (1991) was available to read online. Does anyone have the website address (URL) for this?

can someone answer be tghis coz i ent got a clue.
i have alot of episodes where i confuse reality with thoughts or dreams. like i think something happened but it turns out it didnt and i truly belived it did. then i go in a freak show wondering if im mad or not.
also,this is mad but under my control. i have behaviour problems and when im in a stress and wanna go mad, ...

Being a fellow schizophrenic, I was just wondering how other schizophrenics deal with apathy. For me I havent felt happiness since I was a little kid. So how do you guys feel about this, and do you ever truly feel as happy as before the illness?

or do they?

Just wondering if any one here is/ has been sectioned under the mental health act? I've been sectioned a fair amount of times in the past and am currently on a 6 month section. I desperately want to get of it when it gets reviewed next year but don't know how to prove that I'm not a danger to myself.

I'm fed up of being made to receive depot injections as I'm anti medication, plus ...