Schizophrenia Support Group

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception of reality and by significant social dysfunction. Untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized by demonstrating disorganized thinking and experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations.

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what do i do?

dancecrazy46
dancecrazy46
i work with alot of mental health people and they said because of my "alternate reality" (as they put it) i have something similer. i cant remember what they called it but it was a cross between this and bipolar. (no suport group for it) its not as common... i dont like my "condition" labled because to me its every day life... my "altrenate world" is my family as well as "normal reality" family is. how do you explain how "lables" make you feel. they keep telling me its not real... but ive seen them sence i was little... i never want to get rid of them.. they are a suport system more then anything.. they help keep my mood stable by giving suport my "real" family cant.... any one felt this way? help!
SwordDancer
SwordDancer
I think the label you are looking for is schizoaffective disorder? Maybe? It's very common for people with hallucinations to find support in them. Sometimes when people go on anti-psychotics and their hallucinatory "friends" go away, people become sad and lonely and need therapy to learn how to adjust to life without them.
dancecrazy46
dancecrazy46
dear SwordDancer thank you and your right schizoaffective disorder is what i was thinking of. do you know this from experence? i have a few friends with an "alternate" life but the thing that makes me so frustrated is they both see it... for me its a whole long and crazy other sociaty involving several species. ( some from other planets ) but im fully in "real" life too.. witch my parents love...
SwordDancer
SwordDancer
No I don't know this from experience, I used to work in the mental health field. You ARE in reality but you also have your "friends". I caution you about your "friends" though. Often people with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder prefer only their hallucinations over reality and begin to isolate which makes the hallucinations stronger. Sometimes new hallucinations will pop up that are not so friendly and can be quite frightening.

I highly recommend seeking treatment and getting into therapy to grieve the loss of your hallucination friends before you experience the negative side to this disease!
arfie
arfie
I, too, seek simpler, more effective explanations of my dislike for the label thing. My current effort runs to the effect of:

My dxes (labels) offer me a vocabulary with which I can better discuss my dilemmas, but they have yet to solve a single dilemma for me. The label can distract me from my personal facts all too easily.

So far, so good. Nobody's threatened to lock me up for it yet... I think it even worked once or twice. Or... At least it got them to change the subject.
deleted_user
deleted_user
when i get delusional I have two alternate universes besides this one. One is governed by an evil orange cat and the other is governed by a benevolent blue cat named October 19. I dont want to go into details but it is a repeating delusion everytime my meds stop working. I have paraoid schizophrenia but schizoaffectives can have the same symptoms.
SwordDancer
SwordDancer
Dance, let me explain further, I do have Schizoaffective disorder but my disorder doesn't come out as pleasant hallucinations. My delusions are of people trying to kill me. Real people trying to kill me. Not so pleasant. I hate my psychosis! I once accused a coworker, another counselor, of trying to kill me. I'm no longer in the mental health field.
dancecrazy46
dancecrazy46
i can see y you changed jobs.. ya mine are like my closest frinds. i have never had a prob with them. the events there r mostly posable in color (term for real world) my mom wonders about the complexity of it. some times im more dealing with the other but its for reasons like one of my friends is sick...to me its n diffident then a parent staying home with a sick kid. they do cause stress but no more then you would have had in a mental hospital.(my "job" in that world is basically a councler / doc/friend / abuse or mental health shelter.) the worst thing in my opinion is some of them try and give me test ancers... lol but im searious. they cause me no prob....
deleted_user
deleted_user
Sounds like your delusions aren't bothering you. I think the only reason you should seek medical intervention is if your delusions affected your life and loved ones in a negative way..
But it sounds like they're friendly and interesting. What's the problem?
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