Could someone out there tell me all you know about schizophrenia?

I've done hours of research on the internet, but i would also like some help from a real person. Preferably answer this if you know someone with schizophrenia.

The schizophrenic experience can be a terrifying journey through a world of madness no one can understand, particularly the person traveling through it. It is a journey through a world that is deranged, empty, and devoid of anchors to reality. You feel very much alone. You find it easier to withdraw than cope with a reality that is incongruent with your fantasy world. You feel tormented by distorted perceptions. You cannot distinguish what is real from what is unreal. Schizophrenia affects all aspects of your life. Your thoughts race and you feel fragmented and so very alone with your "craziness鈥?

Whether you decide to reveal or not is a serious personal decision. If you are older, established in a career, particularly in the mental health field, it is probably safer to become open about your condition. Obviously, the closer you are to retirement age the better. But if you are younger, just starting out, you might want to be very careful about becoming too open about being a person with serious mental illness. One important thing to remember is that once you tell others about yourself, you cannot change them. Once you become open, there will be insults, subtle and otherwise. If you decide to reveal, be prepared to do a lot of educating of our "chronically normal" friends.

I know that all my suffering was for a reason and I have tremendous hope for the future. In the limiting condition that I have I still feel very optimistic about things and I found out through one of my doctors about financial aid, and that made a tremendous difference because I was not able to work at the time and having the money coming in allowed me to keep my apartment and I found that very helpful. I have since moved home with my family because I became too lonely spending too much time alone in my apartment watching television, searching the PC, or just looking at walls.

Those diagnosed with schizophrenia are not mentally ill. Their experiences are not hallucinatory. All of their symptoms are of a supernatural origin.

The voices that those diagnosed with schizophrenia hear are the voices of spirits, other people, and God. This ability is colloquially called telepathy. Everyone experiences it, but it is those diagnosed with schizophrenia that recognize it. Example: Think back to a time when you had a verbal argument with another person. When first separated, each person finds that they are continuing the original argument in their own mind. What is happening is that they are still arguing, but it is occurring telepathically. Few realize this as a real phenomena.

Those diagnosed with schizophrenia are just some of the saints that are found in the scriptures.

i have been i soooo many hospitals and units coz of mental illness and i met my best mate in one of them - she has schizophrenia and it's basically where u hear voices, usually telling u to do thing, often harmful things, and u can also have a kind of split personality too...it can come very suddenly, as t did for her, and it isn't really a curable illness, so the only way to lessen it is by medication, but if she doesn't take her meds then she can get very depressed and abgry and paraniod in the space of a day, as schizophrenics often think people are out to ''get them''...hope that helps!!!
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You might check out these websites:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publicati...
http://www.nami.org
http://www.schizophrenia.ca/files/Rays_o...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/schizop...

They have a lot of very good information on schizophrenia. The first three websites have booklets in pdf format that you can download and save for future reference.

You might also check out www.healthcentral.com/schizophrenia it has a blog, forums, and question and answer sections. It is very informative.

There is also an excellent book, "Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients, and Providers" by E. Fuller Torrey, Fifth Edition. I know Barnes & Noble has it. It is very good reading and tells a lot about schizophrenia - what it is, how it's treated, and how to deal with it.