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schizophrenia
is anyone here schizophrenic? it was one of my vocab words and the definition is "a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements." what do they mean by different elements? like you're living in two different worlds? i once saw a movie associated with someone who is schizophrenic, but what is life like?
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grapesnredroses is my old account i lost the password to, but im schizophrenic and if you read my status you can tell how great of a life i have. with the right meds and doctors it makes life perfect like no other im the happiest iv ever been.
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for one i cant even believe that someone would say that ppl with schizo cant use a computer. well im schizophrenic and i hallucinate alott wich means you hear an see stuff that other people dont. also its like your body can be over there living an talking an all but your spirit wich you are is somewhere else watching your body wich i do not know how to explain. most people with schizophrenia like to be alone but i am the oppasite i am out with friends every single day an i have to be. we are not in control of their movements or thoughts and is so hard to talk in a conversation. it is like you cant talk no matter how hard you try, your mind just will not let you. schizophrenia means like split person, people think it is like split personality disorder but it is not schizo is like you are not in control of yourself, an easy way to put it is that like say bob and joe are two totally different people and your body can be acting like bob but your mind will be as joe watchin bob and in derealization(you dont believe andything as real because it doesnt feel like it is) or depersonalization(you feel like your mind and body are separated and talks to eachother) its also said that they cant have good relationships as in family trust or partner love or friendship. i have many hard things i go through along with schizo but i have a boyfriend and friends that understand me pretty well, im a social so i am the oppasite of a hermit kind of schizophrenic wich makes it alot easier for me. i say schizophrenics can do anything they set their mind to like an average person if they do not go around haveing people feel sorry for them, anythings possible.
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Ok so my cousin and two of my aunts are schitzophrenic and just to clear something extremely STUPID up that somebody said, they can use computers. there not retarded
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This doesn't answer your question, but that's the definition of neurosis, not schizophrenia.
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Mentally, if you have schizophrenia, it's like you are here, but there is a second part of you that is in some imaginary dream land made up by your brain. You are unable to respond to most things going on in the real world, because you don't realize that it's even there. Imagine living in your own alternate reality, all alone, but everyone is watching you live it, they just aren't part of it.
Asking if anyone on here is schizophrenic is an easy question to answer because any one with this disease would be unable to use a computer at all, let alone even be able to realize they were schizophrenic.
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The definition you were given is NOT for the medical illness. It's for the word as a description of behavior. Behavior isn't a medical condition...
Let me see if I can make this a bit clearer.
The definition you have there is accurate when a sentence like this is said:
"Both the ex-husband and ex-wife exhibited schizophrenia about the possible outcomes of their divorce hearing."
That means that those two people took contrary and incompatible positions about their divorce case (which many couples do).
That is a perfectly valid way to use the word, but it's not the medical use of the word or the way we normally use it.
The medical definition of the word is much more nuanced and detailed, but to paraphrase it a bit, the medical definition is: a biological disorder of the brain characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
As for living with it, it confusing.
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