Schizophrenia Articles

I Am Dreaming The Future

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, February 4th, 2013
About a year or two ago, I started to perceive what I thought to be speculation on my part as to what the future would hold in my dreams. Like conversations that I would have with my friends. But then they started to happen. I ...

Random Thoughts Cause Concern

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, January 21st, 2013
I've been diagnosed with purely O OCD last month but I don't know if my thoughts are obsessions or already delusions. I don't know if I'm losing my grip on reality but just a good few hours ago, a random thought popped into my head: ...

Depression, Bipolar & Bad Thoughts or Interests

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
I am 20 years old and since the age of 12 I've changed from curious to strange. I dropped out of high school at 11th grade, never worked a day in my life, and have zero friends. I've always been depressed for as long as ...

Friend’s Strange Behavior

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
I am very very concerned about my friend. She has a family history of Schizophrenia, and I am beginning to question whether she might be beginning to develop symptoms of it herself.. She is in her early 40s and in the last 8 months, her ...

Continuing Symptoms Despite Treatment

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, December 22nd, 2012
Thank you. A month ago (or so) Dr. Kristina Randle helped me answering my question. (Misperceiving reality without medication). After reading the answer I decided to contact my former psychiatrist (the one I used to trust) and started a treatment with her. I was feeling so ...

Do I Have Schizophrenia?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, December 21st, 2012
I have noticed an increase in many symptoms associated with Schizophrenia over the last year of my life. Hello, I'm a third year university student (age 20) and have noticed that I experience an unnervingly large amount of symptoms attributed to schizophrenia on a day ...

Best Friend Went “Crazy”

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Hi, I came here to this site because I really don't know what else to do. I guess I will try to explain as best I can and sincerely hope I hear back soon. So last night my best friend of 5 years claimed that ...

Sociopath?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Thursday, December 13th, 2012
I was subjected to repeated abuse and trauma from age 2 until about 5. I've had several other traumatic experiences both physical and mental since then. In school I never fit in with others (fighting, manipulation, terrorize) finding them to be mindless robots that have ...

Can’t Figure Out What’s Wrong with Me

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
I'm 19, I don't know what's wrong with me. I almost always avoid social situations, or any situation where I feel like I won't have a way to leave if I start feeling overwhelmed. I don't feel comfortable being around more than one person at ...

Not Sure What I May Have

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, November 18th, 2012
For the past year or two, everything has seemed fake (buildings, people...) I did not know why but everyday I tried questioning it and it seemed to have gotten worse. I am at the point now where I rarely feel any emotion towards anything, and ...

Can I Get The Disorders My Mother Has?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, November 16th, 2012
My mother Has Schizophrenia, Manic Depressive, and Bipolar and I was wondering if I would contract any of these mental illnesses. She has been coping with this for many years now. She was diagnosed before I was born and now she is 51 years ...

How to Help Daughter with Multiple Problems?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, November 9th, 2012
How do I help her? My family has a history of schizophrenia. I grew up with both a grandaddy and aunt who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, so I know just what it looks like. By the time my daughter was showing symptoms she ...