KyeWriting's avatar
My pleasure. May I ask, how long have you had schizophrenia? What kind do you have (paranoid, catatonic...)?
MeltingCORE-NEO's avatar
That's fine. c: I have Paranoid Schizophrenia. I first started showing symptoms around 2004, but I was diagnosed with it in 2008. (The main reason being, from what my close ones have told me, is that they were honestly scared - some of them knew there was something wrong - and they didn't want to think that there was anything wrong with me. They only took me in when I had a massive freakout in 2008 because the people in my head were trying to kill me.) Since I've been educated on what it is, I have a better time telling what's a hallucination and/or delusion. I can't say I can always tell (because I can't - I still freakout sometimes), but I do have a better time with it now.
KyeWriting's avatar
Well, I'm glad you do realize that you have schizophrenia. It's so common that psychotics refuse to understand that they are ill.

I wish you the best :hug:
MeltingCORE-NEO's avatar
>>That is very true. (Something that breaks my heart actually - because I have a friend irl who has what I have and she doesn't know she's sick...)
>>I was like that at first - refusing to believe anything was wrong with me - but I'm very lucky that something clicked inside my head.
>>Thank you so much. :)
KyeWriting's avatar
I've had a psychosis myself so I know how hard it can be. Take care, dear.
MeltingCORE-NEO's avatar
>>I'm sorry to hear that - I hope you are doing well now.
>>I will. :aww:
KyeWriting's avatar
Oh yes, I'm fine now :aww: