Does anyone else with Schizophrenia use WrongPlanet?

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I think WrongPlanet is a nice forum, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were other users here who had Schizophrenia. I'm asking because it'd be great to meet some others here who have the same condition as me as I don't know anyone in real life who does.

Hi, I think it's great for other people facing other life conditions to join with us here at WP.

I don't have schizophrenia myself, but I do welcome you as a free and equal member.

I have schizophrenia and I read the posts here every day. I also post here every once in a while. A lot of people who post here have some similar issues that I do so I consider it to be a good resource for myself even though it wasn’t made specifically for schizophrenics.

Interesting to hear you say that. I'm autistic, not schizophrenic, but pretty much everything in schizophrenia except actual hallucinations and delusions sounds familiar to me. I think autism is pretty much the same as the 'negative symptoms' of schizophrenia.

I have schizoaffective disorder and autism. Schizoaffective is like schizophrenia but it has a major mood component (bipolar or depression). I have schizoaffective bipolar type. Schizoaffective in its active phase is terrifying. I hear voices and see visions. Terrible. I want out of it. Scary weird and cloudy.

Please tell me what Schizophrenia is like. How are the voices. Give some explanation.

What is Schizophrenia like? Frankly, it's terrifying. The voices I hear tell me to kill myself, kill my family, that my family and friends hate me and are betraying me etc. They scream and shout things, say I'm pathetic and worthless and threaten to hurt me. The visual hallucinations are no better; I've seen giant spiders and demon-like creatures which look so real they've frightened me to tears. Some other things I see aren't so bad though, like moving rocks, rats, cats, dogs and dots. The paranoia and delusions can be pretty dangerous though; it gets so bad that you can think the building you're in is going to explode and believe it, and that people are out to kill you, or that you have superpowers and you can fly. It's a horrible condition to live with really, but it's just one of many that millions of people have to deal with in their day to day lives.

My special interest is pscyhology and I was just watching a film about schizopherenia on youtube. That's good that you are aware it and dealing with it.

I do not have schizopherenia, and as a way of relating, not saying I have any real understanding of what that is possibly like to be you. I often feel crazy because of my anxiety. I feel like everyone is out to get me because I went through a lot of abuse. I don't like to go out alone because I'm worried of what people think about me being alone and quite all the time. Anyways, just trying to relate. Thanks for sharing you thoughts earlier.

Hope you find what your looking for.

Welcome to the forum. Schizophrenia must be a tough condition to deal with. I don't have it, I have bipolar and aspergers, but some of my bipolar symptoms overlap. I get catatonia (or used to before I got medicated for it, these days it rarely happens but it used to happen several times a day), where my body becomes stiff and I physically cannot move anything even though I'm screaming in my head "MOVE MOVE". Sometimes I experience derealization and similar mental states where the external world suddenly doesn't seem real, and I can find this very scary - often I sink to the ground and curl up in a ball because I've lost all sense of connectedness or gravity. Sometimes when I have sudden intense depression it's like all the colours become warped and more grey than they should be, or like I'm falling into blackness inside my head. They happen fast and severe, like hallucinations, because my bipolar is very rapid cycling.

When I'm depressed I can become paranoid and I hear my own voice in a constant stream inside my head telling me negative things like my boyfriend is cheating on me/using me for sex/I've convinced myself I'm in love with him but I'm really not, my friends are using me/aren't really my friends/dislike or don't give a stuff about me, etc. I don't ever tell anybody that I think these things because I know it could really hurt them.

Sure.

The odd audible and somewhat frequent visual hallucinations + paranoia gave me that label on top of the ASD.

Medication helps those "positive symptoms" quite well.