Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions?

Jagercola asks: "My sister was recently diagnosed with Schizophrenia. It's a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease that we don't know a lot about. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, paints an accurate picture of how the disease affects someone in a best case scenario. I would like the vast audience here to help me understand the disease through experiences and that it might help me aid my sister. If you know someone how has the disease, how has it affected your and their life? How have you been able to cope with it? What are the long term implications for quality of life?"

Comments

Asking for psychiatric advice on Slashdot?

[tweakt]

Reminds me of: Lucy

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PS: lameness filter sucks.

Re:Asking for psychiatric advice on Slashdot?

[JHromadka]

Ironic that you are asking about schizophrenia in a place where people lambast each other for having different views about subjects like Linux, Apple, etc.

Re:Asking for psychiatric advice on Slashdot?

[AmmitBeast]

Well... after reading the forums for a while, Jagercola concluded that many Slashdotters are schizophrenic. Eve1: No, we're not. Eve2: Yes, we are! (Sorry, low fruit. And yes, the joke plays to the obvious misconception about multiple personality disorder being the same as schizophrenia, which it is not. Eve2: Yes it is!)

Re:Asking for psychiatric advice on Slashdot?

[Chalybeous]

Reminds me of: Lucy

The troll is [in]. Advice: 1 mod point.

What would be really ironic

[Anonymous Coward]

is if Slashdot posts this again tomorrow. :P

Do you post linux questions on WebMD?

[Anonymous Coward]

no, you don't.

Re:Do you post linux questions on WebMD?

[blair1q]

I send them linux questions.

They don't post them.

Schizo... what?

[AnonymousTravis]

That reminds me of the time I...

What? Who said that?

MAKE THE VOICES STOP!

It wouldn't be so bad if they would just stop yelling at me... ::Cries in the corner::

Re:News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

[Anonymous Coward]

I think Cliffs been watching "A Beautiful mind" too much.

They told him to post it....

Re:Just Remember...

[untaken_name]

Too many people confuse Schizophrenia with Multiple Personality Disorder. The two are related, but are not the same thing.

I agree totally with you.

I, however, don't.

Re:it's my fault

[Raul654]

Ah, you speak of that rarest of posts, the +5 troll

Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot?

[One Louder]

Because, in addition to being legal experts and marketing geniuses, we're all also highly qualified psychologists and medical doctors.

Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot?

[sunking2]

Because the people who keep chasing him threatened his life if he didn't get something posted on Slashdot.

Strange

[Anonymous Coward]

I asked slashdot for ideas on how to create a portable server room, that got rejected, but suddenly, hey, WebMD slashdot edition.

I guess I forgot to ask medical advice with my computer question.

Ask Slashdot:

A friend of mine had the clap, which linux distro should she use?

Re:Take the medication

[Anonymous Coward]

he would start thinking the medicine was just there to control his mind

I'd say:

Dude, you're -schizophrenic-, OF COURSE they're there to control your mind...

Scary

[Raul654]

Linux on the pacemaker - gives "kill -9" a whole new context

Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot?

[cloudmaster]

I'm not a marketing genius.

Here's my opinion of schizophrenia

[Anonymous Coward]

Generally speaking, as I am a liberal, I am against it.

Re:Schizophrenia

[Anonymous Coward]

who are you replying to?

Re:Remind yourself and your family

[corbettw]

I always cheer myself by reminding me that at least I don't have a brain the size of a planet.

Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot?

[hesiod]

> I'm not a marketing genius.

The classic ploy of undermarketing yourself to make people curious. You ARE a marketing genius!!!

Re:Just Remember...

[I'm not god any more]

I used to have Schizophrenia, but we're cured now.

Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot?

[Ateryx]

I've gotta disagree with you here. While Schizophrenia may be "more common than you think" that's a pretty lame reason to include it as an "ask slashdot". AIDS is probbably more common than you think, is that the next Ask Slashdot?

"I've gotta[sic] disagree with you here." This IS slashdot... so Schizophrenia *is* more common than anything transmitted by another person... especially sexually.

My son think he owns Linux

[ArcticCelt]

My son recently started to manifest some signs of schizophrenia. Last Year he suddenly announced that he owns Linux and that every body should pay him to use it. At first we where thinking that this was just a premature April fools day but then we realized that he really was meaning it. Thousands of people tried to explain him the ridicule of is claim but unfortunately he was each day more and more in denial.

In one of his crisis, thinking that he was now some kind of Dr Evil he asked a ransom of 3 billion dollars to IBM. He have a friend, who I don't know if he is a pimp or sell drugs or something but the fact is that the guy named Bill have a lot of money and gave him some 30 millions to encourage him to continue to live in is fantasy. Shame on him!

Each day he is getting more delusional and I really start to worry that he hurt himself by doing something stupid or just annoys to much people until is ass get seriously kicked.

Should we check him in a psychiatric institution?

Mrs Macneil

Re:commonly seen

[cayenne8]

"Schizophrenia usually pops up in the late teens/early twenties in most men (and women get it a few years later than that, but usually before age 40)..."

Hmm....that explains most of the women I've been seeing lately....

MAY YOUR PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS BURN IN HELL

[polished look 2]

The advice to "take your meds, take your meds," is utter and complete garbage. The only time I began to become better was when I stopped believing in meds and thrust my salvation and deliverance into the hands of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Re:MAY YOUR PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS BURN IN HELL

[ThisIsFred]

The only time I began to become better was when I stopped believing in meds and thrust my salvation and deliverance into the hands of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I just checked, my HMO doesn't cover prescriptions for that, even as a co-pay.

Re:MAY YOUR PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS BURN IN HELL

[polished look 2]

I don't believe it is in bad taste - modern psychiatry stands in opposistion to Christ-centered recovery and rehabilitation. In fact it is safe to say that psychiatry is of the devil as is their evil psychotropic medication and God help those that come under the evil influence of psychiatrists or their drugs.

Re:MAY YOUR PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS BURN IN HELL

[dubl-u]

The only time I began to become better was when I stopped believing in meds and thrust my salvation and deliverance into the hands of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Who, conveniently, turned out to be living in the same hospital ward as you.

Re:Are you a Scientologist?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait... there's too much cynicism and passive-aggressive angst here. You're not a scientologist... you must be goth.