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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shanese1992 10/05/2013

I of course haven't been on here in awhile I glance at my emails and say I should log back on and then life gets the better of me. I've been busy with my son lately. He is now 8lbs 13oz last I checked and 5 weeks old. He's growing so fast. But as far as symptoms go its not such a love story. Til death do us part I suppose. I have had major episodes and its hard for my spouse to deal because hes not home so its been really rough on our relationship however we have stayed strong and communication has been better than ever. He asks questions to see what if anything he can do for me and I am becoming way more comfortable just opening up to him about everything with the voices, hallucinations and all. I have had mega set backs but because of my son and his father I have held on to reality and I hope that I can keep it up so that my boyfriend will not enforce medication when he returns from deployment.

Thanks for reading, hope you all are well in your lives.
Shanese x

deleted_user 10/05/2013

Great hearing from you. It's a great sign you're building trust up with your partner rather then down. I really do envy you on that. Do you have any support from his or your parents? Maybe try and lean on them a bit more while the symptoms are flaring while he's away especially while raising your new babe?

On the medication as long as your not going over board on self medicating with other things, trust your own common sense.

deleted_user 10/07/2013

I am glad you are back its nice to hear form you and all my DS friends and aquaintencess.

shanese1992 10/12/2013

No not much support from anyone else. My family still think is Schizophrenia is Multiple personality disorder so they continuously talk about other things if I bring it up so I don't ask for much support also do to the fact that they have said they would put me away and take the baby if any symptoms came back. I am very afraid to tell them pretty much anything at this point. But right now its manageable enough that I can handle it.
It's nice hearing from you all as well. :)

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