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 ...

I can feel that something is wrong, I don't know if it is something around me or maybe inside me, it is probably something inside me, but something definitely is wrong. I have been going to my sad place again, only I don't even know ...

First of all I want to apologize if my English is bad. I developed extensive fear of having/being on the onset of schizophrenia (and psychosis in general) after I read medical articles on the internet about symptoms of schizophrenia. I noticed that I sometimes hear ...

I took antipsychotic medication until a few months ago, because the medication was killing me for real, I fainted, couldn't breath, and whatnot. Tried to talk to my doctor, but I realized he was trying to kill me, so he did'n want to change the ...

To preface this, I have eidetic memory and therefore can remember large chunks of my early childhood. I grew up in a fairly normal middle-class home, with two parents, a roof over my head and a great education. However, ever since I was young, my ...

Hey, firstly, I have already been diagnosed with having mild Social Anxiety (by a psychiatrist) and am definitely an introverted person anyway. I came across schizotypal personality disorder having seen it mentioned and being curious as to what it was and upon googling, discovered a ...

I met my partner (now ex) we dated for 4 months and in all that time he did not tell me had a been suffering with schizophrenia. I found out recently he has been receiving treatment for the last 4 years. I only found out through ...

First, I always feel like someone is watching me I have felt like that as long as I can remember. I have no self-esteem, I see myself as worthless, ugly, fat, and disgusting. I hear voices in my head, telling me these things. I used ...

Ok well i'm 14 and have been diagnosed with Ocd in the past, but now i have weird symptoms sometimes i feel like something is watching me. Second i hear and see things that are not really there. Lastly sometimes i know when things are ...

My friend had a break down recently. He tried to take his own life, this was done horrifically. In the process, he killed his long owned fish. Specifically said "pain is not real". Blamed his actions on 'aliens'. Said he snapped out of it can ...

I appear to be "normal" yet I still have the desire to do psychopathic actions. I am currently growing up with a supporting, loving, middle class family. I am in the IB program, so i am very educated. On the outside, my life ...

I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts about a situation that involves my children. Their mother sends our boys 8, 13, and 14 to their grandma's house for childcare. Their 30-year-old aunt lives there and she is an untreated schizophrenic. i have urged them to ...