Dealing with voices

Every time it gets really bad I end up on way too much of way too strong medication. Already on clozapine but things are escalating. A lot of time I don't know what's real and if I'm at work I can freak out from that. Get really paranoid too and lock myself in the room once I spent an entire week under my bed because I couldn't deal with reality and the "unreality" at the same time, so I shut the reality out so I knew everything was unreality. I really need to keep this job though so I can't do that. Advice?

Take your medication, meditate, attend therapy and maybe avoid using drugs and alcohol. Also, tell your psychiatrist if you feel like your medications are too strong. One thing I do when I'm derealizing/depersonalizing (the terms for when you feel unreal, common in schizophrenic patients) is to pray, or I'd ask my family for help with reality-testing. Just ask for help, you'd be surprised at how many people in this world are understanding. If you really want to keep your job, tell your boss that you have a condition and what to do when you're in that state.