Lets talk about Schizophrenia?

I would like to hear their comments and their life who is schizophrenia or whose family member or friends are schizophrenia

I knew a friend several years ago who broke his back falling off of the 4th story of a building. Apparently he thought he was spiderman and tried climbing the drainpipe down after hours. Anyway, he didn't talk much about it but he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A great book on a personal experience is Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of "Renee" by Marguerite Sechehaye and Frank Conroy. Gave me a good perspective on what this illness might be like. Source(s): www.amazon.com

well, i don't have schizophrenic people in my family, but if you refer to the book or the movie, a beautiful mind, it portrays the mind of a schizophrenic person, john nash. it's really good, ive read and seen it many times. basically, schizophrenia is when you hallicinate. hope that helps:)
This is my story. In the spring and summer of 2001 I noticed people in my office building were looking at me in passing and saying, "Boof." I heard my supervisor utter the strange words, "If you sleep with a prostitute, you might have trouble finding a girlfriend." Frequently I was smoking cannabis in my evenings. When my boss fired me from that job, I took a position in the local tax office. The meanwhile I was becoming intensely paranoid. I read a book on the subject of ESP research and immediately I noticed strangers were reading my thoughts and I was intercepting their thoughts. I was becoming increasing terrified. When I shared my ESP experiences with my general practitioner, she assessed me as having Social Anxiety Disorder and prescribed Paxil, an antidepressant medication. The meanwhile I heard such strange utterances as my boss saying to me, "You rape me." At this point I began avoiding eye contact. My demeanour dismayed my boss to see I was increasingly unemployable for I was staring into space. I had trouble making small talk with the other employees. The delusion occurred to me during a binge of cannabis-smoking that my father had molested me when I was a child and I made this accusation to my parents and to public health. It was very embarrassing for us all. Also I believed I was a famous musician and the subject of much discussion. Characters I saw on television commented on me and celebrities also spoke of me on the television set. A psychiatrist, Dr. Krauss, heard my talk of my ESP experiences and concluded I was psychotic. He prescribed me a second-generation anti psychotic, Risperdal. He instructed me to refrain from alcohol or street drugs or operating a motor vehicle. I gave up my cannabis habit. Risperdal was clearly putting the strength of my bones at jeopardy in the long-term, so Dr. Krauss changed my medication to a treatment with the first-generation anti psychotic, Haloperidol. I enrolled in what was to be a two-year regiment of therapy and my thought disorder improved. I convinced myself the ESP was a delusion and my conduct was better. Unfortunately, Dr. Krauss resigned his job and dismayed I resumed a beer-drinking habit. Now that I have been mentally ill five years, I have been off all medication for many weeks and am functioning perfectly well and living independently. For recreation I drink moderately. A disability pension pays my bills. While no traces of any schizophrenia remains, I have sufficient depressive characteristics to resemble living in a depressive episode, and any number of other personality disorders may be at play in my psychology. Thank you for reading my story.
Schizophrenia is a condition & person suffering from this is called Szhizophrenic. When a person does not think he has some mental problem but he has, the condition becomes irreversible ic Schizophrenia.
my answer is in your other question always up for a chat, a biography on the life of a schizophrenic boy which won a human rights award and was a best seller is "tell me I'm here" by Anne Deveson, it is truly the most amazing book I have read and is all true it details her son's life with schizophrenia and how he died. You can find it on amazon