My Experience of Schizophrenia

I've hummed and ahhed about writing this review, in fact as I write it I don't even know yet if I'll publish it. I have never suffered from schizophrenia, but I have lived very closely to someone who does. The main reason I'm unsure about this review is that I can't give personal direct experience, and very much do not want to ridicule my ex-husband. I also have some very negative and selfish opinions relating to living with a person suffering schizophrenia. I'm not proud of them, but I am human and have a tolerance level. I don't want to offend anyone who may be suffering by writing my experience of living with the person who is diagnosed. I met ...  Read the complete review

Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects just 1% of the population usually between the ages of 15-25. It causes paranoia, delusions and hallucinations. There is no cure for it but it can be controlled by various medications. There is no test to say whether you have actually got schizophrenia, it can only be determined by what the sufferer tells you. I've never suffered from it personally but someone very close to me has. Here is my story. My mum was pregnant with my brother and she and my dad were overjoyed. He came into the world on 6th April 1981 and just 6 weeks later she found out she was pregnant with me. As we grew up we were so close and everyone ...  Read the complete review

After years of watching my mother suffer with this awful disorder i have decided to tell my side of things.. Here i am at the tender age of 8 watching what i thought was my mom just being very happy.Nothing wrong with that i hear you say but when you come across someone who is usually as timid as a mouse and too shy to do anything out in public, You suddenly begin to realise there is something not quite right with the picture. My mother was 28 when she suffered her first breakdown and to be honest at 8 you don't realise the extent of what is actually happening around you. I mean my biggest worry was that my dolly would not fit in my pram!! But for my ...  Read the complete review

I have never been the most normal, but i used to be very happy and live in a dream world. Then as i got older i got very confused with the whole world. I beleive truly that i am a fairy, i still beleive that now i am 16. I beleived that everyone was evil and hated me. What made it even more confusing is that i actually look like a fairy, a fary face and i am very petite and people always call me a doll or fairy because of my appearance, this made me even more certain i am a fairy. I heard people talking to me in my head since i was very young, around 7. The doctors said this is rare but genetical in my family. As i got older i started to see very strange things ...  Read the complete review

What is schizophrenia? It is not Multiple Personality Disorder where a person’s psyche has splintered into other personas, although they are grouped togethor. Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disease with many possible symptoms and extremes. Paranoia: if you can‘t even trust yourself or your senses, do you think you would be trusting anyone else? Delusions which could range from something simple and easily overlooked (like social withdrawal) to loudly proclaiming beliefs that are obviously impossible to everyone else (“Elvis is helping the aliens control us through microwaves“, for example). Sudden ...  Read the complete review