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Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders

Psychotic disorders can be defined as a severe disconnection with reality, including by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized or agitated behavior without insight. Schizophrenia, Delusional Disorder, Brief Psychotic Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder and Shared Psychotic Disorder are some of the psychotic disorders you may encounter. Talk about them on this forum.

Schizophrenia and not wanting to take meds! :(

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I visited my psychiatrist for the last time today (discharged) and I am so happy because I am not very fond of her. I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by her but was diagnosed with schizoaffective by another psychiatrist that I saw privately over a year ago. I told her today that I feel...

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fear of schizophrenia

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Hey I'm a fifteen year old girl who has anxiety for the past couple of months my anxiety is in some what in a pattern . I think that theirs something wrong with me health wise like cancer or a brain tumor then once that clears up I then get fear of some sort of mental disorder and as of right now I...

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my friend has recently been diagnoised with schizophrenia

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my friend has recently been diagnoised with schizophrenia, has was sectioned for 4 weeks a few months ago. few months after he was released he started to accuse me of sleeping with his wife, then more recently he physically punched me and again accused me of sleeping with his wife, ( my friend and...

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Fear of Schizophrenia?!

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So I have been a bad hypochondriac ever since I was little. I remember as early as 6 worrying about diseases I could have. I have really intrusive thoughts about going crazy or losing my mind. I have the Obsession part of OCD. Anyway I'm 21 now and can't seem to shake this fear of developing...

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Mom diagnosed with paraniod schizophrenia

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To make an extremely long story as short as possible, my mom refuses to speak with a Psychiatrist or even a therapist. She refuses any type of treatment, therapy, medication and also refuses to accept that she has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. I got her to go to one therapy session...

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Am I experiencing early symptoms of Schizophrenia? Or is my anxiety "playing tricks"?

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I've been worrying about this for way too long. Since the beginning of this year I've become obsessively scared of schizophrenia. I have a deep fear of it and am terrified of developing it. This all started in the 31st of December. I decided to smoke marijuana to see if it would help with my...

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Boyfriend has schizophrenia/depression and has been sectioned, now he says we are not together....

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After a few weeks of trying to take care of him, endless hospital visits and GPs my boyfriend disappeared and was actually 'missing' for a few days. He eventually walked into a police station and asked for help. He was taken to hospital and detained under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act. I think...

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Hypnagogia/Hypopompia while awake? Or Schizophrenia?

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        I've been worrying about this for way too long. Since the beginning of this year I've become obsessively scared of schizophrenia. I have a deep fear of it and am terrified of developing it. This all started in the 31st of December. I decided to smoke marijuana to see if it would help...

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Am I suffering with schizophrenia

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I am 16 years old and suffer with anxiety lack of motivation feelings of numbness and persecutory delusions the list goes on I mainly have negative symptoms in fact I have every symptom accept hallucinations but I'm really not sure if I have schizophrenia or not :)

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medicaton causing more harm?

Hi, I am a carer for my dad as he suffers from schizophrenia, as well as temporal lobe epilepsy and chronic depression (almost certainly caused by the schizophrenia). He began acting very strangely about two years ago, not in the usual way he does with the schizophrenia, but more...

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