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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.

Seeing ghosts, spirits; having premonitions, dreams, visions and signs..

I am 14 and I am seeing things that aren't there! I have always seen ghosts, spirits, signs and premonitions, even since I was a youngster. I see black shadowy figures with smoke around them. Their eyes are either circles of bright white light, hollowed out or sometimes I just can't see their eyes....

by User avatar PremonitionEncounters271318

psychotic symptoms

Hi, my husband told me something that worries me. We were just chit-chatting and we came to the topic of his father. I never met him. He died before we were married. The thing that bothers me is that my father-in-law suffered from some form of psychosis. I have heard somewhere and it had stuck with...

by User avatar zulema31043

Do they have memories of manic/psychotic episodes?

I had watched a lot of movies, and read a lot of books about psychotic persons. I have never took it for serious. But during the last weekend in my building a man with psychotic and manic episodes has murdered his wife and son. It is more terrifying than all those movies I have watched. I am...

by User avatar bing119756380

Dating a guy with schizophrenia and bipolar, it seems that we went too fast

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I started dating a guy with schizophrenia and bipolar. Things were fine at first. He was the best guy I had ever dated. We had so much in common. He is a music producer and I'm a vocalist so it started out being a business thing but our energies must have pushed us together. We only dated for about...

by User avatar Guest

missed periods, diarrhea, negative pregnancy test

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I have missed my period by almost 1 week now, have had severe cramping but no bleeding for almost a few days....then diarrhea for almost 4 days now!Have done a few pregnancy tests but came back negative.   Also feel sick and tired? 

by User avatar tilliemc233119

Both of my parents are schizophrenic. what can I do to prevent the mental illness before it happens?

Alright so both of my parents are schizophrenic and I wanted to know the chance of me becoming like them, and if there is anyway to prevent the mental illness before it happens? Also how do I talk to my mom and dads I live with my grandma and I barley see them and I don't know how to start a conzo...

by User avatar MeraBurley 359530

Pain, shortness of breath and numbness

Answered by a doctor

Hello, I have been having problems since last August 2006. I am not a person to go to the doctors very often with "physical" pain/ailments. I perhaps go once ever few years or so. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia many years ago but now that I am having physical problems, I can't seem to find a...

by User avatar Guest

Hormone Oxytocin Can Help In Schizophrenia Treatment

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New study found that hugs, touches and sharing feelings with loved ones induce so called love hormone (oxytocin) in the brain and this hormone can help patients who are suffering from schizophrenia, social anxiety and similar disorders. Researchers claim that oxytocin can change brain signals...

by User avatar Mayo

Talking to yourself. Is it schizophrenia?

Answered by a doctor

Sometimes I talk to myself, mostly when I'm alone, so no one can hear or see me, but I think it might be something serious, like schizophrenia. I could create a scene in my head and actually bring myself in the scene when I'm not really there, and I imagine people there too. It's kind of hard to...

by User avatar Jello89066

Risperdal damage - No emotions, feeling like a zombie

So out of desperation, here goes: I was prescribed Risperdal, took it a night here and there, hated it, but also hated my depression/racing thoughts, so thought I'd give it a "consistent" try. So I started last week, took it for 4 nights straight (1 mg nightly)   ...and on the 5th day - which was 2...

by User avatar Igork291772