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13 Oct 2015, 5:09 pm

My uncle is schizophrenic. I personally don't see much in common between the two of us. I think he has more in common with my brother who is bipolar.



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13 Oct 2015, 5:56 pm

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14 Oct 2015, 10:23 am

This is kinda off topic but this thread reminds me, I have dx of schizophrenia from one of my hospital visits and am curious. How can I get this dx removed? I have never hallucinated in my life and I just don't feel like I have the symptoms at all. I feel it was unfair to receive this dx, one could argue I am delusional in my social expectations but thats more autism related in my opinion. I have talked to schizophrenics and I can't relate to any of it, I am not paranoid, I am more or less not delusional and I have never hallucinated even on illegal drugs that should have made me hallucinate.

I am confused why I have this dx, I don't want to talk bad about a person, hospital, company. However, honestly the hospital seemed inapt, they admitted me as john doe and had my age as unknown due to the fact they didn't believe I was as old as I was. Making matters worse the hospital was very abusive and handcuffed me to a wall for 20+ hours which I was forced to sleep on the floor. I was originally going to complain about the hospitals care but I just let it go, this happened in January of this year.



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14 Oct 2015, 11:11 am

dcj123 wrote:
This is kinda off topic but this thread reminds me, I have dx of schizophrenia from one of my hospital visits and am curious. How can I get this dx removed? I have never hallucinated in my life and I just don't feel like I have the symptoms at all. I feel it was unfair to receive this dx, one could argue I am delusional in my social expectations but thats more autism related in my opinion. I have talked to schizophrenics and I can't relate to any of it, I am not paranoid, I am more or less not delusional and I have never hallucinated even on illegal drugs that should have made me hallucinate.

I am confused why I have this dx, I don't want to talk bad about a person, hospital, company. However, honestly the hospital seemed inapt, they admitted me as john doe and had my age as unknown due to the fact they didn't believe I was as old as I was. Making matters worse the hospital was very abusive and handcuffed me to a wall for 20+ hours which I was forced to sleep on the floor. I was originally going to complain about the hospitals care but I just let it go, this happened in January of this year.


I'm not sure you can get it removed. To get it removed from your records would involve the hospital falsifying their records, i.e. going back and editing them, which is a no-no. Very likely what happened is that the staff at the hospital viewed that as a "working diagnosis" to be modified as more information was gathered. It's quite possible that the diagnosis on your discharge papers was different than at intake.

They probably have you as John Doe because you did not clearly answer the question "what is your name?" You might have forgotten some of your intake encounter by now.


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14 Oct 2015, 5:41 pm

BeaArthur wrote:
dcj123 wrote:
This is kinda off topic but this thread reminds me, I have dx of schizophrenia from one of my hospital visits and am curious. How can I get this dx removed? I have never hallucinated in my life and I just don't feel like I have the symptoms at all. I feel it was unfair to receive this dx, one could argue I am delusional in my social expectations but thats more autism related in my opinion. I have talked to schizophrenics and I can't relate to any of it, I am not paranoid, I am more or less not delusional and I have never hallucinated even on illegal drugs that should have made me hallucinate.

I am confused why I have this dx, I don't want to talk bad about a person, hospital, company. However, honestly the hospital seemed inapt, they admitted me as john doe and had my age as unknown due to the fact they didn't believe I was as old as I was. Making matters worse the hospital was very abusive and handcuffed me to a wall for 20+ hours which I was forced to sleep on the floor. I was originally going to complain about the hospitals care but I just let it go, this happened in January of this year.


I'm not sure you can get it removed. To get it removed from your records would involve the hospital falsifying their records, i.e. going back and editing them, which is a no-no. Very likely what happened is that the staff at the hospital viewed that as a "working diagnosis" to be modified as more information was gathered. It's quite possible that the diagnosis on your discharge papers was different than at intake.

They probably have you as John Doe because you did not clearly answer the question "what is your name?" You might have forgotten some of your intake encounter by now.


I was heavily confused when I came into the hospital as I was under the influence of a lot of drugs but I gave them my name and date of birth, they seem to doubt everything I said because I look younger than I am nevermind the fact I had ID...

I can't help but feel it was the worse hospital in the world. Honestly if anyone deserves to be fired, its these people. I have an 120 page document now detailing how I was communicating to electronics telepathically through the wall. I was pretty stoned but I remember that didn't happen, it also says I was sexually inappropriate with a male staff member and I am not even gay. The only thing I did that was screwed up in addition to being suicidal was I was having PTSD flashbacks to abuse and I was asking staff members because I was confused if I had been sexually abused (I was as a child). They also wrote that down as a delusion when a quick check in my medical history would have shown that I was in fact sexually abused. While I didn't complain against the hospital, I will never go back there for care.



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15 Oct 2015, 8:23 am

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I was heavily confused when I came into the hospital as I was under the influence of a lot of drugs but I gave them my name and date of birth, they seem to doubt everything I said because I look younger than I am nevermind the fact I had ID...


Instead of focusing on how bad the hospital was (and they can be pretty bad, I agree), why not focus on never getting that messed up on drugs again. That, you at least have some control over.


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