Schizophrenia Articles

Is My Husband Mentally Ill?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 17th, 2012
I think my husband is suffering from a mental disorder or schizophrenia. We have been married for 3 years and have 3children 2 being 8 month old twins. We got into a fight and the first time in 5 years i walked out and lefted. ...
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Do I Have Dissociative/Multiple Personality Disorder?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
I have recently become concerned with my mental health. I am twenty-one, and I realize that this is an age where people begin to often experience their psychosis, so I need to ask, am I losing it? As far as my history goes, my father ...
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Does Psychosis Go Away on its Own?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, February 4th, 2012
About 8mths ago, my husband woke one day and said he was hearing voice, he complained of headaches; he wasn’t sleeping and became very religious. He said my family had tried to poison him or something spiritual- he also was paranoid. He was very cold, ...
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Hearing Voices

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Uhh. I'm 13 and I I will sound crazy, but I'm serious here. You know the phrase 'train of thought'? Well, it needs a track if it's a train. So my whole life there were two tracks of thought, mine & a narrator (stupid things ...
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Family Thinks I Am Schizophrenic

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, January 26th, 2012
I have lived with depression/social anxiety and selective-mutism for the past 4-5 years. I recently had my sister express her concern for my mental health. She begged me to seek help. I engage in cutting, overdosing, starvation. I have cut since the age of 14 and ...
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Frightening Sleep Disturbances

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, January 21st, 2012
This is a new problem that has just happened to me twice in the last week. What it is that I wake up and can't move. It's like my brain and body aren't connected. And during this state I feel someone climbing up on ...
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Problems with Girlfriend

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, January 20th, 2012
I dont know what to tell you really but saw your articles and needed to speak to you. I have been WEIRD since I was a kid. Never had a friend always been alone, only just got a woman at 50 an only then cos she is ...
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Frustrated — Does This Sound Like Psychosis?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
I have a complicated history of childhood abuse and mental illness. I take antipsychotic medication and am diagnosed with Borderline PD with some contention as to whether my psychosis(?) is more psychological or biological. I don't hallucinate, my problem is mainly surrounding delusions(?) I ...
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Schizophrenia Diagnosis But is it Something Else?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, January 6th, 2012
In 2007 I was diagnosed with schizophrenia. It was a very fast diagnosis based mainly on genetical factors, my mother and my sister having had problems in the past. I was a fresh graduate at the time, with no job for a few months, ...
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Think I Have Mild Schizophrenia

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Okay well I'm a very paranoid person when it comes to phone calls, For example if i get a call (unknown number or known) Ill look at my phone and wont answer because i feel as if the person on the other line either knows ...
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Needing Help and May Be Schizophrenic

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, December 29th, 2011
I have very violent mood swings everyday. When stress comes, I just snap. It's been this way all my life. I suffer from delusions of grandeur and the next moment I think about inflicting pain on someone. I'm afraid of snapping and doing something ...
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Concerned About Isolation?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, December 24th, 2011
I am a twenty three year old college student who has recently transferred to a different school were I live on campus. I currently have a therapist and take medication for a psychotic disorder. I know I've always been a bit different, but after moving ...
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