Posts by slystag43

Larry Lewis said:Who cares about some minor little anxiety—it’s not even worth our breath🙂

Schizophrenia? Please. Try pulling twelve-hour shifts on a construction site in Chicago during a heatwave—then you'll see what real life actually feels like🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9XzTzB2b4Q

Listen, you idiots, get it through your heads once and for all: I don't have F20. 🙂 If you're crazy, that's on you, but I'm not. 🙂 I don't have hallucinations, and I manage my mood swings with Seroquel.

(Seroquel) handles both the lack of hallucinations and stabilizes my mood at the same time. ☕ 🙄

I’m on an F-22 Raptor and currently in remission, taking Seroquel.
I posted extensively on this forum during my acute episodes.
I can recall about 30% of the hallucinations in my posts, but the other 70% feel like I'm reading someone else's words for the first time.
Reading them now, I can hardly believe what I managed to churn out.
It is difficult to face...
Currently, my brain seems incapable of generating that level of hallucination; it's as if the connection to the part of my mind that wrote those erratic posts has been severed. Which is likely for the best.
My point is—I remember the chaos of being on the forum, but I don't remember the content of what I wrote.
So, please accept my apologies to everyone mentioned, if that even matters to you. I suffer from gaps in my memory, which, in my case, is probably a blessing.

I used to think amnesia was just something for trashy Hollywood movies, but it turns out to be quite real.

This might sound like an excuse, and of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
I am simply stating my perspective.
I feel better since my doctor told me—it isn't your fault that you are ill.
However, I still feel responsible for the nonsensical posts on this forum; reading them makes me sick, and there are consequences regarding how people perceive me after reading such things...

I will strive to remain in remission, hopefully for a long period.

driftinggull21 said:That should suffice. It appears Ivushka lacked any ill intent; she simply wasn't acquainted with the condition or the actual potential of someone managing MS while in good remission.
Let us cease this discussion and return to the main topic.

No problem...
I believe that once you have known at least two people with schizophrenia, you can form a legitimate opinion on the disorder. You quickly realize that even with identical diagnoses, individuals are vastly different. Anyone who has dealt with more than two cases knows that generalizations only account for maybe 40% of the reality...
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Fine then, I’m out. My husband thinks this forum is messing with my prognosis, so I'm leaving... see you one day eventually. 👋

Larry Lewis said:So, apparently my luck has finally turned—everything is suddenly coming up roses. Now I’m supposed to believe that some big-shot specialist at one of those fancy clinics is going to fix me right up? And to top it all off, the doctor is supposedly stunning... and here's the kicker—she actually *likes* me, precisely because of this gut—this "extra padding" I've been carrying around lately. Honestly, it feels like a bad joke.🙂

Go ahead and perform your own self-analysis; you have plenty of damn room to do it...
Technically, a psychiatrist isn't permitted to practice psychotherapy until they have completed their own training in it...

Sigmund Freud was a pioneer of psychoanalysis, fundamentally altering how we perceive the human subconscious... his theories remain both controversial and foundational to modern psychology.

Nice.

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Define virtue...

Larry Lewis said:Look, let’s be real here—my situation isn't likely to change overnight, but money buys you one thing above all else: autonomy. I don't need a fleet of three Mercedes-Benzes parked in my driveway; what I actually need is the freedom to exist without anyone breathing down my neck or dictating my every move. It's hard enough dealing with schizophrenia as it is—honestly, it feels like a full-time job just staying afloat—so why would I want to deal with some toxic manager at work who treats me like an outcast or whispers behind my back? Dealing with people who judge or push you away just because of your diagnosis... it's exhausting.
u the past.

You're wasting your breath. You know the world is headed toward a Star Trek future where love won't even be necessary... 🙂

Henry Garcia9 said:Whatever. I don't get why you're even bothering to dig through an encyclopedia that’s basically a relic from forty years ago—it's just a goldmine of outdated junk. Besides, at the end of the day, everyone walks into this world alone and leaves it alone, whether they're sick or healthy. We all have our own baggage to deal with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...o%3ATra%C5%BEi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizoaffective_disorder

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Karen Garcia4 said:Oh, wonderful. For years now, my entire family, doctors, and everyone close to me have been telling me to just accept the diagnosis—that by denying it, I'm only making things harder. And then, once I finally decide to face it,
someone actually tells me that's not what I have. To make matters even more ironic, it's coming from someone else dealing with schizophrenia...

Medical Encyclopedia, Washington, D.C., 1970, Vol. 5, SHIZOPHRENIA:
Schizophrenia refers to a large group of common mental disorders (psychosis), with insufficiently understood etiology and pathogenesis; these disorders are characterized by specific psychological symptoms, and in most cases, they involve a disorganization (split) of the personality. The symptomatology and course of the disease vary significantly among different groups and in individual cases............................................recovery can occur at any stage of the illness........................schizophrenia combined with manic-depressive psychosis (my case) ............ and that spans 11 large pages of tiny print...

My favorite part is the section on how physical build either favors or hinders the prognosis and outcome.😂🤣

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I believe that even if you visit an alternative healer, they might help, but you are still on your own. When a psychiatrist prescribes medication, you are still on your own. A million pieces of advice, yet in the end, a person remains alone with themselves.

Personally, my soul is at peace, and that is what feeds my recovery.

Where are those links where friends and family members were describing how much they can't stand the schizophrenics or the crazies living nearby, and just how difficult and unbearable they are? Can I get a link 😍?

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Has anyone else here spiraled into total madness besides me? ☕

To be fair, schizoaffective disorder 🤷☕

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoaffective_disorder

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Back in high school, I actually thought my philosophy teacher, Tomislav Reškovac—who’s quite the media figure now—was basically Jesus 🤣🤣🤣
But I was wrong. He really caught my interest when he lectured on Thomas Aquinas, much like how my grandfather, Tom, used to captivate me—may God rest his soul... though, am I just having another hallucination? 🤷☕

I convinced myself I had some spiritual connection to the Bible because of a mark on my right hip—some kind of sign from Revelation, though I can't recall the chapter... It’s a heavy hallucination that haunted me for quite a while. When I told my first husband and my brother, they just looked at me like I’d lost it. My brother was just like, "So what?" and my ex asked who else I had told, but I just told my brother...
I suspect it will be difficult to hold the Bible again, though I hope I can eventually read it without thinking that the mark on my hip means something more than it does 🙄

What a heavy hallucination 🙄🙄🙄☕🙄

Horrible ☕

Not all intelligent people are created equal.
Not all beautiful people are created equal.
Not all eloquent people are created equal.
Not all atheists are created equal.
Not all madmen are created equal.
Not all sane people are created equal.
Not all forum users are created equal.😉☕