Ask A Schizophrenic

[jtb1127]

What will happen if you used LSD while having one of your typical hallucinations?

 

[Virote_Considon]

On the paranoid front...

Does it ever become a problem that "they're all out there on the internet, reading what I wrote?"

Does having consciously put it out there negate the other aspects?

If I write something on the Internet, I generally expect that people can read it, so it doesn't bother me.

What does bother me sometimes is that there could be websites on the Internet which I don't know about which streams the cameras which are planted around me.

What will happen if you used LSD while having one of your typical hallucinations?

I don't really have "typical hallucinations" and I've never tried LSD so I wouldn't know.

 

[jtb1127]

I don't really have "typical hallucinations" and I've never tried LSD so I wouldn't know.

Have you ever used any hallucinogens?

 

[Virote_Considon]

Nope.

 

[Luckymoose]

I recall a passage in one of Freud's books where he refers to a schizophrenic who was always seeing what he termed "divine rays". So i guess it is possible for one to have persistent hallucinations of the same object/entity.

This disorder is clearly the origin of religion! More seriously I've had some of those symptoms before so maybe I should get checked out.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

When did you start thinking that you where ill? Where you the one who took the initiative to go to a psychiatrist or did some one else make you go?

 

[Gary Childress]

What will happen if you used LSD while having one of your typical hallucinations?

Like Virote I've never tried LSD or any illegal drug. So I'm not sure what the result would be.

This disorder is clearly the origin of religion! More seriously I've had some of those symptoms before so maybe I should get checked out.

Most of my episodes did involve religion in one way or another. So I'm tempted to think the same thing, however, one never knows. Are our religions founded by people who had a mental "disorder"? Maybe they just had more positive "dreams" than I do? I wonder what would happen if you took a mystic and put him on an anti-psychotic drug? Would he stop having "mystical" experiences?

I'm tempted to say that if you are in a state where you think you need to get "checked" for schizophrenia, then you are probably not schizophrenic, however, getting checked may not hurt. I certainly wouldn't want everyone who has ever had a little paranoia or something to think that they have schizophrenia. It's a very severe disease, at least in my case. I would think that normal people can have some of the symptoms too once in a while under certain circumstance. Like I said in another post if you end up babbling nonsense, psychologically paralyzed, then there's a good chance you may have schizophrenia or some mental disorder of some kind. If you are cognizant enough to know something doesn't seem right then, sure you might want to get checked, but my guess is that you are not having a schizophrenic episode.

When did you start thinking that you where ill? Where you the one who took the initiative to go to a psychiatrist or did some one else make you go?

Every time so far that I have been ill, once I get deep into the dellusions, I don't recognize that I need help. In fact a couple times when my mother tried to get me to take my medicine during an episode I thought she was trying to get me to take poison. So really the only one who can help me at that point is an outside source. When I'm deep in dellusions I usually am so convinced that I know what is going on that I just don't recognize that I'm dellusional.

The strange thing is I seem to think that my dellusional state is actually an "enlightened" state, that I had it all wrong when I was stabilized on meds. So I don't even try to get back on meds when I'm in an episode.

 

[dannyshenanigan]

I also would like to ask can you drive a car safely as a schizophrenic? What if you have one of your episodes while driving. Would it be fatal? If you can drive are you scared while doing so because of the risk?

My friend's brother has schizophrenia, and during one of his episodes he inexplicable drove from Illinois to Nevada before his car broke down. At least in his case he is able to drive within the rules of the road.

 

[Berzerker]

I was watching "Through the Wormhole" (about the universe) and the subject was time. A researcher into "time" mentioned that schizophrenics seem to have a difference in their brains pertaining to time, or sequences, or keeping track of cause and effect to the point of getting confused by events. The same researcher then said pot can have a similar effect in that a pot user may more easily lose track of time by not committing to short term memory "landmarks" that help define the passage of time. I've heard schizophrenics should avoid pot because it can induce episodes, what do you think about the connection both the condition and pot have to "time" etc ?

 

[Yeekim]

You´ve already answered the question I intended to ask (whether some part of you still recognizes you´re being delusional while you are hallucinating), so I'll just say thanks for the thread, it has been really interesting read.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I was refering to way back. At what point did someone propose the idea that you where ill and why.

 

[Gary Childress]

I was refering to way back. At what point did someone propose the idea that you where ill and why.

I was at work one day and had to be escorted to the agency psychiatrist because I was just gripping a bible mumbling stuff about the next coming of God. I had reached a point in my delusions where I couldn't function at all. All I could do was grip a bible and talk incoherently. It was pretty easy to tell that something was wrong with me.