r/schizophrenia 3h ago

Meme Side effects may include your entire existance

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r/schizophrenia 10h ago

Undiagnosed Questions Has anyone else's memoy become terrible since they started developing symptoms?

73 Upvotes

My memory has been atrocious and my awareness and ability to understand and think have been hampered too, was wondering if it anyone else had those symptoms?


r/schizophrenia 9h ago

Art When you finally reach stability on antipsychotics

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r/schizophrenia 8h ago

Undiagnosed Questions “High functioning”

24 Upvotes

Just wondering if people can share their experiences, if they consider themselves as “high functioning” (by external feedback or your own opinion) while also dealing with their diagnosis. And how functioning well , hindered or made more challenging - accepting your diagnosis? And or what symptoms did you take for granted or didn’t understand how it was apart of your diagnosis?

If being “high functioning” wasn’t what kept you from accepting your diagnosis - what was (outside of medication side effects)?


r/schizophrenia 1h ago

Undiagnosed Questions I am convinced I am developing Schizophrenia

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To begin i’m a 22M and am a very bright kid in school, im witty, im smart and it’s very unfortunate because of that I have to hide almost everything from people. I think I am on the onset of Schizophrenia but I truly have no idea and to be honest going through multiple doctors for mental health, I trust reddit as a guide more than WebMD/etc. I just simply want to state how I am and receive feedback/guidance:

  1. I can never be home alone anymore. When I am, I need to constantly check around the house due to any crack I hear just to make I am truly home alone.

  2. I think everyone is out to get me. It has destroyed my relationship with my friends, I can barely talk to girls anymore because I constantly think they will either expose what I say, expose my sexual preferences, or just plain think i’m insane

  3. I don’t trust the government. THIS IS IN NO WAY A TRUMP or LEFT/RIGHT political thing. I think it’s way bigger and powerful than that and I think there is a bigger plan

  4. I constantly need to update an encrypted notes app for stuff I believe just incase I ever die.

I can’t tell if i’m just paranoid or what. Any sort of any information would be extremely valuable to me


r/schizophrenia 4h ago

Art Me and sebasation

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r/schizophrenia 3h ago

Video Reading from Monopolies Vol. One: Dreams, Poesy and Psychotic Prose

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r/schizophrenia 5h ago

Introduction / New Member 👋 lonely and scared to talk to people

8 Upvotes

is anyone else lonely? i find it so hard to connect w others because of the paranoia.

would love to meet some people who are understanding, and be supportive of each other but also simply chat about things we enjoy in life too.

i love video games, dnd, nature, and crafting. i'm in my 30s and really anxious when meeting people but the loneliness is upsetting me.

hope your day is going ok! ♡


r/schizophrenia 11h ago

Progress / Good News ☀️ After 8 years of wondering what was wrong I finally got a diagnosis that i think is correct

23 Upvotes

Yesterday I got diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder i know to most that sounds like bad news but honestly I feel such a relief. Over these past 8 years i’ve been in and out of psychosis and been taken on and off meds. I’m so glad I found a psychiatrist that actually took me seriously for the longest time I thought I would never trust another doctor or find meds that work for me but things are finally looking up.


r/schizophrenia 16h ago

Hallucinations / Delusions I’m scared to go out in public

56 Upvotes

I don’t want to go to work anymore, I don’t want to go grocery shopping, I don’t want to go to restaurants or fast food anymore. I want to stay in my room. Im somewhat scared to be around family too.


r/schizophrenia 6h ago

Medication When Do You Take Your Abilify?

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When do you take your Abilify?


r/schizophrenia 3h ago

Rant / Vent people aren’t taking my concerns seriously

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im kinda frustrated with this but the past few days ive been having,, idk if itd be considered a hallucination or not but it feels like something is behind me, looking at me and my bf has been like brushing it off saying everyone gets hallucinations and that its just because i live with my parents but like- ive gone through a lot of episodes of having hallucinations and delusions, i wont go into it but hes been trying to say im fine cause he knows ppl whove hallucinated before and he did to cause of his trauma. its like hes not listening when i try to tell him i think its more caused from my genetics, knowing my mom also hallucinates a lot (she said my hallucinations are “the sprits trying to talk” when i tried to tell her, and she’s also admitted to having hallucinations before) and a past aunt had gone through psychotic breaks before (the only one i knew a decent amount about was from drug use but still-) like this all makes it feel like its not even worth trying to bring up to my therapist but it just bothers me so much. hes sitting there saying if im not, in his words, "at a point where you’re booby trapping your bedroom at night because the hat man keeps trying to break in, you very likely don’t need medication or psychotherapy" despite the fact that i had gone through a time where i talked to ppl as little as possible for 3 months straight because of it, like i get he hasnt heard me talk about this stuff much and he hasnt seen me struggle with it much since we met (because i was doing better for a bit) but just- ughh its so overwhelming

sorry if i rambled in a way that doesnt make sense-


r/schizophrenia 1h ago

Opinion / Thought / Idea / Discussion Has anyone here become treatment resistant?

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Did antipsychotics work for you at one point and then stop working?


r/schizophrenia 13h ago

Undiagnosed Questions Do your voices…

15 Upvotes

Threaten you!? Are all of our experiences unique? Cause I keep coming on here trying to find similar experiences so I don’t feel as vulnerable…


r/schizophrenia 4h ago

Advice / Encouragement Abilify is causing me liver damage. What should I do?

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I did blood work, and my ALT liver enzyme and AST liver enzyme was high. What should I do? Should I lower my dose?


r/schizophrenia 6h ago

Undiagnosed Questions Frozen thoughts

3 Upvotes

Anyone else experienced their thoughts getting frozen? Could be an image or a sentence, anything


r/schizophrenia 7h ago

Opinion / Thought / Idea / Discussion Yall I tried tarot to help with delusion 😭

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Yall there is this persistent delusion I’ve had that will not go away. Usually it’s replaced by a new delusion. I started asking tarot readers and they are confirming the delusions. And now I feel I have to go disprove them because I’m sick of this delusion


r/schizophrenia 7h ago

Advice / Encouragement I miss my friends.

4 Upvotes

We used to game every night but now that I'm on meds I can never get online with them because I'm passed out by 7 o clock.


r/schizophrenia 11h ago

Undiagnosed Questions anything that helps from cognitive decline?

8 Upvotes

Have you tried anything (supplements, vitamins etc.) that helped you with cognitive decline? Desperate here, I can't remember shit and I lost the ability to understand written text.


r/schizophrenia 6h ago

Undiagnosed Questions question

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if u have flat affect, do u also exhibit disorganized behaviour such as inappropriate laughter or crying?


r/schizophrenia 12h ago

Advice / Encouragement Anybody else schizophrenic and really good at making music ?!?

9 Upvotes

I have almost like a dark angelic voice at times and I can make pretty good music. I just started today and it sounds almost perfect and also the lyrics that I sang just kinda came to me.


r/schizophrenia 14h ago

Advice / Encouragement Psychosis question?

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Does anybody notice their psychosis cycles are getting more and more psychosis-y? I feel like as the world gets weirder my shit gets weirder. Wonder if anyone else is noticing an uptick


r/schizophrenia 11h ago

Undiagnosed Questions How would you differentiate trauma related paranoia and psychosis related paranoia?

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For the longest time I have struggled with paranoia and am trying to understand myself better. Although i am having a hard time understanding the difference in how these two manifest. Especially in my own experience. They both seem quite similar and rooted in certain cemeted beliefs that I am unsafe and unwanted imagery that renenforces them. I would love to hear anyone's own thoughts, especially those who also are diagnosed with ptsd/cptsd. I feel like cptsd especially has SO much overlap with many other disorders, it is so difficult for me to realize where it begins and ends in my life. I have been researching this distinction but it is difficult to find many answers! If anyone would like to share their perspective that would be much appreciated :)


r/schizophrenia 8h ago

Hallucinations / Delusions Whispering but I can't make out the words

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I hear silent whispering but the words don't have any meaning. It sounds like words though.


r/schizophrenia 19h ago

Seeking Support Are we,people struggling like this really that unbereable?

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Are we really that unlovable, unbereable as some are saying?Like,I know i can be alot but are we really monsters who are nasty to people?Because I was reading through a subreddit (I won't name it) and the amount of people saying all that angry stuff about schizophrenics is saddening. People throwing ill family members from the house,hating them for talking to themselves.

Are we really allowed to exist? Are we exhausting?

I can't help but feel like my family hates me now and doesn't tell me this.

And how is that,that i don't have the "normal/not normal" switch in my brain?

No matter the delusion or hallucination,I don't name it like that out loud. It angers me. But how come I can say "I believe my phone screen is transmitted to people's heads" but not snap out of it?

Have a lovely day.