Schizophrenia?

hi! i am a psychiatric nursing student, and i am very interested in all aspects of mental health/illness. i dont want to offend anyone but i feel that although we are thought certain skills such as communication and empathy and so forth, we really cant understand what its acually like to be a sufferer of schizophrenia. i havent really had the chance to ask anyone which is why im asking this question here. its not meant to be a patronizing question its a genuine and heartfelt want to be able to at least get different subjective and pesonal experiences of the illness. looking forward to hearing your answers x

Carl Jung described the symptoms I experienced best as a "waking dream." I wrote a book about my experiences leading up to and during this "waking dream." The content is based on my actual hallucinations. I don't know, if you'd find that interesting, or not, but the book is called The Sublime Detour: My Experience with Madness.

My second psychotic break lasted 6-8 months. I'm not certain. I think I was manic during that time, also (my diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder), as the experience of hearing voices, for me, was quite pleasurable, for the most part. It was like having cartoons playing in your head. All of my voices were of real people, people I knew and a lot of celebrities. I thought I had a satellite receiver planted in my head, and they were beaming images to me from NBC Studios. I thought all of this was happening for some grand reason, such as me being a king or The King of Kings. The book tells the story my hallucinations told to me.

For me, the worst part about having schizoaffective disorder was not the voices, but the deep 3 year depression before my 2 psychotic episodes, and the debilitating paranoia that preceded my voices and that I am still trying to get over 5 years, after the fact.

I would just like to add that mental illnesses are biological brain disorders, and medical treatment works!

While I don't have schizophrenia, My brother in law does and I can trll you it is not easy to live with him. It is like living with several people , you never know how he will react to anything that happens. even from moment to moment.
,,,,,,and your question is ........???
Terrifying...I can feel it coming and it makes me feel like I'm behind a glass wall kind of watching myself, like in a dream or something. It's this horrifying feeling where you have a very detached feeling from reality. The things that happen, the tihngs that happen and the way you react; you have no control over it and you feel like you're completely unable to get through the wall and react and interact the way you know you would.
I am bipolar and have had hallucinations, which I suspect is similar, yet fleeting. It is horrifying and I truly "believed" the hallucinations to be external, as opposed to being figments of my psychotic imagination. Of course at the time, I didn't know I was bipolar. I had a severe religious conflict and a severe bout of sleep deprivation when I heard what I thought was God speaking to me.

I can't imagine an unending onslaught of hallucinations whether auditory or visual.

As far as the causes of my condition, I believe it is a chemical imbalance in my brain that was produced by an imbalanced childhood - meaning extraordinary mood swings of an individual parent. I think he/she caused my brain to react in certain ways to certain stimuli and once I departed the home, my brain took over on its on and continued to go off-balance from time to time.
If your in school, arent you supposed to be learning all that stuff in there? Duhhhh
my mother has schitzopharenia, it was really hard for me watching her have all these hallucinations, she had been so convinced that what she saw and felt was true, and i would have to sit there and listen to her and agree with what she was saying otherwise she would get real angry and upset, it is horrible to see someone that you love suffering like that, I tell you one thing from my experiance mentally ill people need plenty of love and understanding, they are beautifal, artistic and imaginative people with beautifal skills and intelligence!!!!!!!!!!!!

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