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Hi UH. Can you call your providers UH? I don't think your medication
is working all that well. They really should be notified. Did you talk to your mom? I'm a mom too, and she'd rather know than let you suffer in silence. Let us know how this goes too. You have a great many fans on here. But see first if you can call someone about those meds.
posted by
KlaraRoberts
on December 27, 2004 at 11:43 AM
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void
About the voices being real: They have argued with me on many occasions that they are indeed real despite what I think, and in one sense they’re right; they are obviously real to me because I can hear them. However, what makes them unreal is the fact that what I hear is not coming from any external source. It’s really my senses playing tricks on me, telling me something is there when the room is empty. I keep a log of every time I hallucinate to help track my progress, but what bothers me so much is not that I’m losing my grip on reality, although that certainly does disturb me, but rather the fact that my senses flat out lie to me and I can’t trust them at all. I know that everyone’s senses play tricks on them, but I’m talking about lies, deceitful, hurtful lies.
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on December 27, 2004 at 10:33 AM
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Hacker, I'm not a therapist, so please take what I say...
with a grain of salt, since I could be totally off base.
I think that a large part of the pain of schizophrenia is generated by the feeling that one loses touch with what is 'real' and what is not. To be sure, what one might hear is perhaps not heard by others, but that in itself does not make the 'experience' unreal.
I am wondering, do you engage in dialogue with the voices you hear? Could you write them down? It seems worthwhile to do so, because that brings them into the realm of the 'real', even if only on paper.
We still don't know what schizophrenia is. But throughout history, there have been many people, both blessed and cursed, who have engaged these voices and given them a run for their money. Some of it has come down to us as poetry, excerpts from the Bible, fiction...
Take care, and keep us posted...
posted by
void-is
on December 27, 2004 at 10:18 AM
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