Comments on: What Its Really Like To Be Schizophrenic

By: shockwave

shockwave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:28:51 +0000

I never had symptoms till starting antipsychotics. Now I have migraines nausea vomiting, I never I repeat never have appetite. I also developed muscle problems like I have had a cramp in my elbow for almost a year. The doctors did a biopsy and genetic testing they found the medication to have caused a cellular dysfunction in my muscles and most likely throughout the rest of my body and organs that is responsible for my symptoms and their is no cure. The genetic testing ruled out all known muscle diseases caused by genetics or genetic mutations, or inheritance, the medication is probably the cause. Basically this medicine is given to people who don��t have good health care it is billed as a cure. All patients are labeled for life with this diagnosis and there is no way to prove you do not have the illness in that respect is not a very scientific diagnosis. In science for a theory to be accepted and it still doesn��t mean it is 100 percent guaranteed to be true, there has to be the possibility to disprove it, this is not the case with schizophrenia.

By: andrew flighty

andrew flighty — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:17:34 +0000

actually looks kinda fun…

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:20:09 +0000

Wow, I hate how so many people make jokes about this type of thing! That’s terrible! From now on, I don’t care WHO they are (well maybe if they’re a teacher I might not say anything). But yeah, if my friends make jokes, I’ll nicely tell them about this. This is some serious, NOT funny stuff! Kudos to whoever made this video!

By: Banana

Banana — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:50:12 +0000

I grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic mother so I can really relate to this video. It’s one of the hardest thing to deal with. She has never been medicated, and still isn’t. Been on and off homeless. It’s definitely an eye-opening experience to live through it with someone.

By: nicole

nicole — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:00:33 +0000

Well, ive been dealing with MDD, PTSD, and BLPD. I just found out that i have Schizophrenia. Just to add on. I am 21 years old. I have been dealing with these’s mental illnesses for 3 years now. And each day gets harder and harder.

Sometimes I feel like my Thoughts are put out there for ever one to here. That every one and every thing is in some devine plan to make me give up and kill myself. I have HORRID paranoia and anxiety. This way of living sucks. I hate it. Everyday I wonder if today is the say I am going to kill myself. But I don’t, bc of my kids.

I walk around with a front, acting calm and collected…but on the inside, my mind is racing, taking everything out of context and twisting it around to make me believe that everything and everyone wants me to fail, and just kill myself. thats it. IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!! I hate it. I wish I could just live a normal 21 year olds life and not be condemned to this hell within my head.

Major prop’s for putting this on here. I hope it gives some insight to others, so they can see No one choices this illness for themselves.

By: Ashleen

Ashleen — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:57:50 +0000

It was never like that for me. That’s why I got off the medication.

By: tm

tm — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:08:48 +0000

so people with schizophrenia only see things in still images? I am confused.

By: Dian

Dian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:47:29 +0000

No One has sayed its terryfing…but what they have sayed is that they feel sympathy for people that have this illness….recently someone has came into were i work having this illness and i was concerned in finding out what it actually was…and this really helped thanks!

Anything that has information or helps people out is usefull!

By: RavenAngelxX

RavenAngelxX — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:56:57 +0000

I watched both of the videos, but the first affected me the most. I don’t know if it’s just me, but throughout the video, I felt really weird. Just imagine how much worse it must be for the people who actually HAVE it. It’d be so irritating and give you some awful headaches on top of everything else. Poor people…

By: Crackhutch

Crackhutch — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:46:53 +0000

I didn’t really find this disturbing at all. Is there something I’m missing here? I understand that it’s supposed to be like having Schizophrenia but everyone keeps saying it’s disturbing or terrifying, and it’s not that way to me. :/

By: Tess

Tess — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:14:51 +0000

I’ve always found Scizophrenia terrifying yet fascinating, (i don’t suffer from it) and I want to do my photography portfolio based upon it. However I would really like it to be accurate and sensitive, so if anybody has any advice or ideas on how to approach this it would be greatly appreciated. This video helped in itself.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:35:24 +0000

My partner who is paranoid schizophrenic watched this so she could help me understand what she goes through. She at this time was hearing voices so I was interested in how she would feel. I was shocked and sickened and had a terrible headache after that five minutes. It is amazing she said that someone could actually get it pretty close to what she feels. Thank you for sharing this I will forward this on to many.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:43:57 +0000

My son suffers from schizophrenia .I asked him to watch the video and give me his opinion. I felt so bad when he told me that the video is a mild view of what he lives. He said if this example was the only thing I had to deal with it would be cool .
This disease a awful , devastating real hell.

I feel so much sympathy for anyone who has to live with this . I feel empathy for the relatives who have to watch their loved ones suffer and feel so helpless.

By: lljames

lljames — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:55:55 +0000

I don’t like marijuana for that reason, but did you know most people DO NOT experience what we do on marijuana and just feel pleasant? – I tried LSD at 17 and I will tell you, the voices came and wouldn’t stop talking to me until the LSD would wear off. I have to say if anyone wants to experience Schitzophrenia, try LDS and be terrified. It is horrible.

By: John P.

John P. — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:00:28 +0000

Jessica,

I’m sorry that your father is experiencing this illness. It is a terrible form of torture for the human mind, but if you understand what he is going through then you can know that he still loves you very much, but he has some personal demons that he struggles with every day.

John

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:03:23 +0000

My dad suffers from Schizophrenia. My mom doesn’t let us contact him anymore, because he got so bad. But now I can halfway understand what he goes through.

I want to cry.

By: Greeneyezz

Greeneyezz — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:27:12 +0000

Interesting post.

It also reminded me of an exercise I had to do while in Grad school.
While in class, our professor wanted to give us an idea of what it feels like to have Schizophrenia. (Currently I’m a Clinical Social Worker in an Out Patient Mental Health Clinic.)
The class was broken up in groups of 4: one person was a therapist, one person was the one suffering from schizophrenia, and the other two were ‘the illness’.
Two of the students (illness) were situated on either side of the ill person whispering into their ear. One of us was told to softly sing ‘Row, Row, Your Boat’ over and over and over again. And while that person was singing in one of her ears, the other person was told to softly repeat (in the other ear) ‘your mother hates you. your mother hates you, your mother hates you’. And while all this was going on the person in the role of the Therapist was to conduct a complete Mental Status Exam.

It was enlightening to say the least. We all had to switch so that all of us experienced this from both the patient and the therapist perspective.

This is very scary for people. Very scary. And even know we ‘non-ill’ people know it’s not real, the person experiencing the auditory hallucinations, it feels VERY, VERY Real to them.

Excellent article. Thank you.

~ZZ

By: Jermaine Pleas

Jermaine Pleas — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:18:34 +0000

This is crazy! Does this kind of stuff really happen to people. Really weird, but sad at the same time.

By: Kamal

Kamal — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:32:51 +0000

This was sooo creepy!..I still got goosebumps from the video..I wish there was something we can do for these people..

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:13:59 +0000

I reccommend that you check on NAMI National Alliance for Mental illness provider course.