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[BohemianChris]

I could hear them just in my head or they would be outside voices, as well.

"A Beautiful Mind" does a wonderful job at portraying schizophrenia. "Me, myself and Irene" does not, that's actually MPD.

Best,
Chris

 

[puppy]

one of jim careys poorer films which ive never seen i dont think, i did see identity though that was good, starring john cussack

thanks for explaining that to me, my friend has a relative recently diagnosed with the illness and i think hes doing ok right now although its still early days, sometimes it can take years to reach a correct diagnosis cant it ? so im glad your doing well and on the road to recovery

*hugs*

xxx

 

[Young405]

Hi, Chris. Thank you for sharing. Our son had an episode late last spring running into mid-summer. I'm afraid we were clueless about what was happening to him. He had dropped out of college at mid-term and was using drugs pretty heavily. Then something snapped. He was very very paranoid. He thought an evil presence was in our attic and it was talking to him! He thought the devil was after him and even saw him standing at our back door. The light bulbs started giving him messages. He thought it was God talking to him. As he became more and more involved with these new "friends", he became less capable of relating to real people. He would carry on a conversation with "someone" and chuckle over something humorous that was said. If confronted about this, he would become extremely angry. He became obsessed with the belief that almost everyone was a homosexual & that because of this Jesus was returning soon. He told me he wanted re-baptised; however, the Sunday he was going to go down, he left church because he brought "a demon" to church with him. The next Sunday, he was re-baptised; however, he looked more like a soldier going to war than delivered. I was not raised in a church that taught much about the spirit world; however, I have an aunt that was. She believed that demons were attacking our son. We prayed and I started studying about the armour of God. Things got worse! Anyway, everything peaked in July and we had to call the police. They took him to the crisis center. He is on respiradol, benzotropine, and lexapro. His diagnosis, at first, was drug induced psychosis; however, now it is schizo-affective. We pray a lot and take things one day at a time. God bless you.