News of Schizophrenia Forum

My brother just told me a few days ago that he sees things that are not quite normal. He didn't go into great detail, so I am a bit vague in my explanation. We were talking about drugs, and he said he had never done any psychedelic drugs because he sees things (similar to what these drugs probably do) without ever having taken anything. He said he started having these experiences when he was in ...

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My long-time boyfriedn (20 yrs) has been sick now for four years. He has not been officially diagnosed. His first trip to the doctor (at my urging) and they said he was paranoid. Then about six months later he tried to commit suicide when I didn't belive something he was telling me. He was observed for 72 hours and released. The dotor told me that since many of the things he was experiences were true, ...

my schizophrenia grew and grew after a few encounters with sexual abuse. it is now eight years after and my partner that i have been with for over a year doesnt understand me at all. he doesnt get that my illness wont just sinply go away and he doesnt realise how it effects my day to day living.

i just had an argument with him and he says he knows that i have had a ...

as a young kid i talked to myself alot, but i would pretend there's an imaginary character right next to me haha, i had a huge imagination

as a young teenager , 12-14 years old, i would hear a wierd noise, then i ran away from the comp room cause thats wher ei heard it, they got more frequent, not too much, like a couple more


then one night sleeping i woke up and heard ...

hey, my name's ali, i'm a guy and i'm 18 (just turned 18)

just recentley i've been starting to take notice that i feal i might have a very slight type of schizophrenia (if there is one)

honestly i don't know much about it i just started reading

well i'll give a brief summary in a way


as a young kid around 13 or so i was really afraid of darkness and $#%^, so there ...

real quick backround, about 2 months and 2 weeks maybe ago i found a website with symptoms for schizophrenia...they matched me and i got real upset so my parents took me to a psychiatrist who just threw risperdol at me, which gave me headaches every day for 3 weeks, then she put me on zyprexa which made me so sleepy i could barely stay awake at school (quit 2 days later) and so i was ...

ok just to give u guys some backround. I am 16 and have been diagnosed with depression and anxiety ive been on different meds but am currently only on lexparo depakote and klonopin. My doc thinks I may have bipolar(which is often misdiagnosed for schizophrenia which raises my apprehension). I was looking at symptons for schizophrenia and i display some of them so i was wondering what you guys think. Ill list the symptons and ...

Now I technically don't have schizophrenia, I have schizoaffective disorder, I just figured more people go to the Schizophrenia forum than Schizoaffective. Plus this applies to both illnesses.

So what do you have most? Delusions, Hallucinations or do you have both frequently?

I personally haven't had a delusioni (that I know about) for 2 years but I have hallucinations a couple times a week (it varies for some weeks) And my hallucinations are mainly auditory ...

I just wanna a know how many schizophrenic do has a belief and how many don't. Thanks