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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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poem about schizoaffective/schizophrenia

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my english is not very good, i am german. but i wrote a couple of poems anyway, so i thought i post one of the here:

flying lights all around me,
they call them halluziantions,
i call it a dream,

the TV talking to me,
they call it a delusion,
i call it a secret message,

voices whispering to me,
they call them auditory halluzinations,
i call them friends,

I pop the pills out of the plastic,
swallow them one by one,
they call it a cure,
i call it a curse,

they call it schizophrenia,
i call it a gift.
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I can appreciate it. As long as that's what you feel. It can't control you. I tell my daughter (18) that she must control it. You are gifted and special in your own way. So is everyone. Keep up the poetry.
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sometimes i am just sick of being seen as nothing else as "mentally ill". i have to add, i wrote this poem before i started taking an antipsychotic. since then i understand how important it is to live i reality, not a dream world. i saw the doctors as my enemies, i thought they wanted to take something away from me. anyone else felt that way?
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This is what I mean by controlling your illness. You have to confront and control it. You will be fine. Please take the meds because you need them but be yourself. You are special. No one can take anything from you ever! Good luck!
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my nurse said i had a special gift in my schizophrenia that i had a "unique brain" and could share my gift with others so they would understand my "world" i don't think they would accept me if they knew i heard voices and saw things "falusal" as my caregiver calls it i like your poem schizophrenia is not bad it is good God gave it to me mcate
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I feel the same way about the tv. It drives me nuts to watch the news. I like what you said about voices being friends. I don't know how many times i've tried to make them happy and all they do is torture me most the time. WHy do i do that?

Never let go of your gift.
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You have one thing going for you, your German! So am I, but my great grandpa stowed away in a ship to America and my dad naturally was born here, so here we stay. I've had Sk since I was ninteen and I'm 53 now. It's not so bad when you consider the physical problems some people are having on top of it!
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