Recovery in schizophrenia: The value of lived experience | Andrew Dugmore | TEDxNantymoel

[@fernandovega5855]

Unless you have personally dealt with the debilitating symptoms of some of those truly heavy mental health conditions it’s nearly impossible to know what it takes to overcome them and thrive in recovery. There is a healthier, more stable version of yourself waiting in the future. Have faith and never lose sight of the effort you put into your recovery. People who have been through it know how hard you work and the strength and grit needed to go from one day to the next. Everyone who has recovered is waiting in spirit beside your future self at the finish line of the marathon that you will one day reach. Keep moving forward. We are waiting and cheering for you.

[@dugmorea]

Thank you for your encouraging and insightful comments. This is inspiration for all.

[@fernandovega5855]

@@dugmorea you’re welcome and thank you for this too.

[@lankwon2345]

If you repent of your sins to God and ask him to heal you, he will heal you. I got healed of schizophrenia this way.

[@VICTIASHEA]

@@lankwon2345 can you tell your testimony on youtube sometime?

[@mygirldarby]

@@lankwon2345 no it doesn't work like that.

[@dyrefate]

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia over 9 years ago and I've also recovered. It's so comforting to hear others and their journey.

[@somebody3852]

If you don’t mind me asking. How did you recover

[@dyrefate]

@@somebody3852 got a lot of insight, figured out how to counter my symptoms and addressed the underlying issues

[@CassietheK]

@@dyrefate thank you for sharing this. Did you need to rely on medication? How can family members help in recovery?

[@dyrefate]

@@CassietheK nope, only used meds during episodes when the hospitals coerced me into taking them. For me, it would have helped if my family allowed me to speak about my symptoms more openly. It helps to have my feelings validated without actually endorsing the delusions. And continuing to communicate with me when I'm non-verbal. I also get very stir crazy during episodes and it's always an issue bc family members want to keep me inside where they can keep an eye on me. Going out like somewhere in nature is helpful to relax, get some of that anxious energy out, and get my mind off the symptoms. Also giving me a choice about treatment (even while I'm in psychosis) really helps.

[@CassietheK]

@@dyrefate thank you so much for this, this is very helpful.

[@voiceinthewilderness322]

I recovered from severe schizophrenia without any medication. I ignored the hallucinations and refused to believe in them. I changed all of the habits of thought not believing what I was believing. I had to entirely reprogram my mind and way of thinking. I just retired from a high security airport job after working for 30 years. I not only beat the illness, I beat those who seek to treat the illness. The things that we do affect the way that we feel. If there is a problem with the mind, it could be from the choices that you make that result in the way that you feel. If you want to know how to treat the illness, talk to someone who beat it.

[@somiaraza9212]

Hi can you help me please I don't know when this has happened to me but I feel like my life has been a lie and I not sure if I am getting deuisstion or memoeries. I don't know the difference.

[@voiceinthewilderness322]

@@somiaraza9212 It doesn’t sound like schizophrenia. As a general rule. Don’t concern yourself with what might have happened. Make your future something you can be glad about. Keep a clear conscience.

[@alejandrae5605]

Please help me to help my daughter! What kind of technics did you use? She’s 33 years old and she hates meds!

[@voiceinthewilderness322]

@@alejandrae5605 I just stopped believing in the delusions and hallucinations. You can’t believe they are real.

[@hatagohar8575]

@@somiaraza9212 same here. Please help.

[@phillipgriffiths9624]

It takes courage to share one's own experiences of mental illness. Andrew’s truly is an inspiration.

[@britnilackey7279]

My brother suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and hearing success stories of recovery gives me hope for him. He is an addict as well and I worry dearly about him. This story is wonderful and I applaud you!

[@dugmorea]

Thank you for your kind comments Britni, I hope that your brother will find hope and relief

[@lankwon2345]

If you repent of your sins to God and ask him to heal you, he will heal you. I got healed of schizophrenia this way.

[@timepasswithchandrani6204]

Hi britni I am a schryzophrenia patiant can you share me the method through which I can cure parmanently from schryzophrenia

[@roxanetell5933]

Brit Lackey, my brother also is very severely sick with schizophrenia. I can relate.

[@longjohnson6159]

Stopping the drugs is the first step god bless

[@emilymaria9312]

You are fabulous, Andrew! You're a shining example of hope, tenacity and courage. Thank you for sharing your story with the world.

[@JosephChristin-ow5yu]

I have schizo-affected disorder. My wife does too. We've been married for 7 years now. Being able to talk to her when I'm in the throws of my illness has helped me so much. She gets it. She understands when my doctors don't a lot of the time. I hope she feels the same about me. One more thing: to any therapists or doctors out there who may read this I want to say some of the time the best thing you can do is offer a kind word and acknowledge how hard it is to get through the day much of the time. Just be kind and not super clinical. Thank you Andrew Drugmore for posting this and giving people a light at the end of the tunnel. You're a superstar.

[@dugmorea]

Thank you for the comments

[@LUKETHELOG]

I had schizophrenia for 10 years, got over it for about 6 months now and feel peace again, the meds never helped me, I knew the only thing that would help is family, my wife, and kids, it was a tuff ride from the start of our relationship with my wife, but she stuck with me, so I had an outlet, someone to talk to all the time so that got me out of my head, and into the real world, voices and visions are persuasive but just got to keep ignoring and talking to your wife.

[@tamarabradberry9299]

Amazing, Andrew. My 32 year old son is in a hospital right at the moment. We have a long way to go, but I am looking for a happy ending. I love him so much. God bless you.

[@dugmorea]

I hope that he can find the best support and is able to progress well in recovery. It’s a long journey but it can become a great teacher. You sound like a great parent to support him.

[@alejandrae5605]

My daughter is trying to cope without meds...not easy!

[@bhamidipatisrinivas1551]

Please try homeopathy, a good doctor can bring him out of this problem

[@vornamenachname1069]

@@alejandrae5605 If she is still struggling: If you can afford it, do a gene test and look which high-risk genes for Schizophrenia she has and read into studies on them. If she has, for instance, a problem with glutamatic receptors, then cutting out gluten, glutamate, L-glutamine and other "gluten related molecules" from your diet might be a good way. Foods that impact acetylcholine metabolism or receptors also seem to often be implied. In those cases, supplements like Japanese knotweed, extracted Resveratrol, scutellaria baicalensis or Brahmi are quite good. Infections and autoimmunity also are a part of the puzzle. So if your daughter had a sudden onset with other symptoms like lymphadenitis, fevers, back pain, skin manifestations or a food poisioning, specific testing and antibiotic treatment might be good. Infectious diseases often linked to Schizophrenia (or SZP-like presentations) are: Toxoplasmosis, Bartonellosis, Lyme disease, Syphillis, Brucellosis, Yersiniosis with Y. pseudotuberculosis, Salmonellosis, Babesiosis, Covid, Erlichiosis. Some of the drugs for schizophrenia might in themselves be antiinfective without beeing approved for their usage in infections. THis infections can cause autoimmune complications, increase gut permeability and change the gut microbiome thus changing the metabolome (the hormones and other stuff that is produced in your gut and circulates in your blood stream). Schizophrenia correlates with an increased amount of Lactobacilli, espcecially Lactobacillus gasseri and also if the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae against wich there also are elevated antibody levels. Food allergies also seem to be important, especially gluten and lactose. Heavy metals and detoxification pathways or genes are implicated too. The composition of your gut bacteria changes with time/as you age and that might also be one important aspect. For me, a mix of Doxycyline, Scutellaria baicalensis, Japanese knotweed extract and Sida acuta did the trick. But before experimenting with medications, you need to eliminate unneccessary stressors (loneliness, unfulfilling job) and you need a doctor who you trust. (Well, I never was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, but my mother has it and I was at prodromal phase I think. I had a lot of negative symptoms, pain im my lower abdomen, constipation and I had the urge to drink blood or act violent which I never did as I still could control myself. I knew that something with me was not right and that I need to do something. I tried to reach out to a psychologist and my general practitioner, but they didn't had time or took no new patients and knowing a lot about "chronic lyme", I knew that I had to help myself. Perhaps I just had "Bipolare disorder with Clinical Vampirism" I don't know. Unlike my mother, I never had any positive symptoms like hearing voices or laughing maniacally. But I also had dyslexia which I never had before. In fact, I could not even write my mother tongue (German) without making lots of mistakes. I also had a different voice and was speaking slower with less intonation.

[@Fargosportsmassage]

SAME THINKING. I AM IN THE HOSPITAL NOW. ❤

[@popopipi97]

I'm a Schizophrenia person.Iam studying to become a physicists, I'm in 9th standard now, after three years of gap, isolated alone. And I'm getting good grades now.wish me luck and success.I don't care about my diagnosis now, so I'm just going for it. ✌️Peace

[@dugmorea]

Well done to you , yes you can make great progress even when you have a diagnosis. I am studying a PhD un schizophrenia recovery myself now.

[@drmustafachamran4286]

@@dugmorea plzz help me how to recover from cognitive losss due to schizophrenia

[@nithinambalatharanithinamb9735]

Good bro

[@danaitsolomon]

Wow congrats

[@pbyashwanth1654]

Bro could you suggest some points in how to get rid of schizophrenia? As my neighbor is suffering from 2 and half years. Eagerly waiting for your reply.

[@Peace-12230]

I was for 2 days 100% there it was a wonder for me like as if i was 19 Years old and the noises werent there for 8-9 Days. What a wonder today i hear them again but it just proves to me i have the chance to recover fully from it and leave it behind maybe its gonna take me years, months. All big hugs to the ones wo are suffering from schizophrenia i know the struggles very well and how exhausting it can be.

[@summer7529]

I am proud of you Andrew. You are a brave warrior Andrew. I am so proud of you. Way to go Andrew

[@abelieversperspective9595]

For anyone interested, ask me too. I'm a paranoid schizophrenic with the disease since I was a kid, diagnosed at age 19, and still suffering symptoms around once per year at the fourth of July holiday because of loud fireworks, a co-diagnosis of PTSD, and the action of the two diagnoses together. I just got out of Chicago Behavioral Health hospital at the age of 56 and I must say I'm glad times have changed. Hospitalization stays aren't nearly as long but I do take some old school medications though - mainly clorpromazine, better known as thorazine, which helps ease the symptoms that still plague me. At times I've exaggerated my identity such as to enter the realm of fantasy to the point that my friends tell me how crazy it sounds, at least my good friends tell me. I've done some decent things in life however, like enlisting in the United States Army when I was 18 which worked out for the best I guess. I finished with an honorable discharge early because of an injury to my left knee that existed prior to service, but I finished basic training, and as I said, I finished with honors. I've held many jobs but few full time positions since I have difficulty with long term stress or trauma at work. Still I worked in historic homes restoration with a really cool guy named J.B. Heckert (RIP) for more than 10 years back in the '90s and early thousands. Otherwise I've worked a little here and there but I'm also receiving Social Security benefits because schizophrenia is known as a major disability in the United States and our country takes care of its people. If anybody thinks that a diagnosis of schizophrenia means that everything such a person says is wrong or crazy then you are mistaken, and you are doing us a great disservice. For example a study done at Northwestern University in Illinois 2005 by Teplin Et. Al reported that persons with severe mental illnesses like myself are at least 11 times more likely to be the victims of violent crimes than others in the general population. I can attest to this by saying that because I've sometimes walked the streets with a look that says that the lights are on but nobody's home I became a target, and have experienced assault, battery exploitation, robbery and theft too often. An easy victim finds predators or rather, the other way around. So please don't tell me or others like me that I'm making that stuff up - we are often hurt badly and in objective reality.

[@Jo-eh7ux]

Thank you for sharing your story 🤗

[@praveenkumar-yo1xg]

How did u recover I am suffering

[@Bikerack2]

Amazing recovery!!!! Gives me hope for my loved one. People need to understand this illness better so that the stigma will go away in the society. Also more research in this will help. There aren't enough treatment centers or counselors for this illness. I'm so glad you beat the illness and are symptom and med free now. Praise God.

[@dugmorea]

Thank you for your positive comment. I’m now researching a PhD in schizophrenia recovery

[@praveenkumar-yo1xg]

​@@dugmoreawhat is the cause it has destroyed our family - me and my brother have been suffering

[@georgianewsome1946]

Thank you for having the courage to share and help begin the de stigmatization of mental illness and helping others find their path to recovery.

[@Beautyful60]

Thank you for sharing your story. This gives me hope for my son, who suffers with this disease.

[@alejandrae5605]

Same here! My daughter is 33 is trying to cope with this disease without meds...not easy!

[@visitfishguardgoodwick5113]

Thank you Andrew for sharing this very important story of yours. I applaud you and value you now even more highly.

[@hellodoppler701]

I could hug you 🤗 thank you for this talk I was diagnosed with a psychosis in 2007 which has since been reclassified as schizophrenia, I too have made a full recovery without medication and have recently started opening up about it but I hid it for years. I still find it difficult to explain to others and keep quiet to protect myself. I loved your story it gives me great hope and I will talk more about my experience to unlock others from the shame and pain and help spread light as you have ✨🙏 bless you and your family

[@dugmorea]

I am so pleased to read this, your comment inspires me further. It’s great to hear from other people experiencing full recovery. We should be proud of our achievement, not to hide it but celebrate our success. Well done.

[@whynothej]

Do you have an email or social profile? I could really use your help

[@Alpha-Scythe23]

What symptoms did you have with your schizophrenia did you hear voices? See things out of the ordinary? Or were they just thoughts in your mind.

[@milagrosmendoza9043]

My admiration for your courage is limitless. Thank you for helping me to understand this terrible sickness. God Bless you.

[@schneidersitz]

you're amazing Andrew Dugmore

[@dugmorea]

Thanks for your positive comments, take care.

[@vinitasehgal677]

We applaud u sir.. lots of love and appreciation.. my brother is suffering.. i m doing my best for him to recover.. and need these stories so i have hope.. :)

[@alejandrae5605]

Same here! My daughter is trying to cope without meds...it’s not easy!

[@suvi6997]

@@alejandrae5605 is she okay Now ..my husband doesn't want to take medicine I am tensed

[@dianakarina8080]

@@suvi6997 hope you find this message but my fiance is going thru this horrible illness and won't take meds either. 😢 it's traumatizing. He's a stranger to me now. It hurts so bad. I've been spending all my time trying to read and try to find answers. There needs to be more support groups or something. But I'd love to chat to see if you had any luck trying to support him or if he recovered at all?? Thnks

[@hypnotherapist2211]

I am so glad to see this. As a Hypnotherapist we have our own theories and matches perfectly what you are saying. So happy to se you recovery and stand in your truth now in a Ted X Talk.

[@stefyguereschi]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCE, AND IMPORTANT FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM IT. THAN YOU🤝🤝🤝🤝

[@kimberley45]

Wow thankyou SO much for sharing your personal experience with Schizophrenia, I respect you speaking up and sharing this.

[@iloveshaakah]

Thank you for sharing your story. You have given me hope.❤

[@harriskeetse7868]

I was graduating today with a masters degree in Entomology from Univesity of Pretoria in South Africa and i was diagnosed with the illness in 2015, I am currently working for a multinational company, we will see how it goes but i am excited... i am stable and able to handle stress mostly because of the medication.

[@dugmorea]

Well done - inspiring

[@rmbis3827]

My boyfriend suffering from this illness, my heart breaks , thats why im here to understand what is schizophrenia ,i always there for him and understand his situation, he can't finish his college degree because of he is sick,

[@dugmorea]

I hold out hope that people can get better. For many it is a worthwhile long recovery journey which hopefully I shared in my Ted talk. Follow advice of health professionals but also match this with good peer support and recovery principles if possible. But it’s a long journey and there is the need to think long term, many people do recover but we need to be patient with the process . Take care

[@dianakarina8080]

@@dugmorea Andrew, did you ever regret or find empathy to a loved one you may have hurt while in your psychosis? I'm losing my fiance of 7 yrs to this horrible illness 🤒 😢 😔 my heart breaks, I'm devastated and he just keeps pushing me away, like a stranger. I cry and beg him to consider how bad he's hurting my heart....and he's so mean and hurtful. Like he's vacant. People have said not to take it personally but he just ran away and is throwing away our long term commitment to each other for a girl he just met a week ago in the psych ward!!! You can't make this stuff up, Andrew. Very curious when you finally gained insight... 🤔 when was that "Aha!" 💡 moment??

[@dugmorea]

@@dianakarina8080 Thankyou for message. I can’t regret my experience, in psychosis we can’t help ourselves and we lose insight. I know that I have been left aside by friends and loved ones, so have experienced rejection and loneliness because of illness. Gaining insight and light bulb moment- i have lived with this illness and recovery for 42 years now. I can’t remember a moment changing experience. It was gradual recovery and gaining insight slowly and surely over many years. I hope this answers your question a little. And close relationships can get very tricky as you know. And we can get hurt and we need time to heal from lost relationships.

[@caraj9704]

Well done for being so brave and speaking out. You speak so well! I’m also glad you talk about recovery with medication. I’m reading people going off their meds…that may be fine for them but I know schizophrenics who need their medications at the moment and there’s nothing wrong with taking meds to treat it. (Just like a diabetic might take medication it shouldn’t be frowned upon)

[@akshorts2115]

Is schizophrenia like asthama I can't live without my asthama medication even a single day are we similar

[@juliettepatterson3509]

Such a similar story of my own schizophrenia I’m finally recovering and hoping to study in the future

[@toddm6999]

your a hero...sir..period

[@immanuelgodson7156]

Im recoverd paranoid schizophrenic.....my meds are a miracle cure......God be with those inside.

[@prashantsrivastava1333]

May i know how you get recovered

[@immanuelgodson7156]

@@prashantsrivastava1333 ..i take amisulpride.....it made the psychosis go away.....

[@fionabell1744]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou for sharing your experience strength and hope . X

[@dugmorea]

Thank you Fiona - good health to you

[@Adam-gd6pp]

My right ear really enjoyed this talk

[@zak255]

I’ve had schizophrenia since I was 16ish basically 17 and I spent about 5 to almost 6 years in that place called my mind. I have had a lot of delusions and they lasted about a year each. Well my last delusion I was afraid of touching people being near them. I thought if I touched them i physical assaulted them but that went on for a while and one day I noticed that it was weaker. I decided to touch poke my family members on the arm to get use to it and eventually I got better. I also learned how to control most of the time. Controlling your heartbeat and breathing does wonders. Wish I implemented that sooner.

[@dugmorea]

Thanks for positive message. Well done on your progress. Mindfulness type exercises help some people. Meditation and mindfulness have helped me a lot.

[@hypnotherapist2211]

These two women are immense!

[@bluesteakmanflesh131]

Thanks Andrew, much respected :)

[@SuperAfroGal]

Thank you for sharing. Stories like these are good for the soul and so important to give hope to people who have experienced, work with or love someone struggling with their mental health.

[@MollyWop-yu2pu]

I had to watch this twice.

[@malenamariephillips6574]

This gives me so much hope! Thank you!

[@Amira-z1g9k]

How you doing now?

[@bhanusri3732]

I want to recover completely and say good bye to meds

[@etakdranyam]

Thank you so much for sharing this, you will have helped a lot of people by doing this.

[@kimlampkin3581]

I wish I could recover from this and be free I’m so tired of seeing things and hearing annoying negative talking insulting voices 24/7

[@nithinambalatharanithinamb9735]

Now you recover

[@jennifer_reyes_9490]

I used meth and I started hullicinating it’s only now that I realize I admit to myself I have it and I want help I don’t like medicine because I got treated once for this and I hated what I went thru it luckily I had a cousin who admitted proudly she had it and she so beautiful and so nice she inspires me to have courage to confidently say I have it too I always curves around this conversation I feel I can’t admit to my therapist but yes I am but thru it and I will tell my therapist the truth and if whatever he thinks I need to take I will I know I can drive I can work and I can perform well and I can be happy I love music it’s just hiding the truth to myself and lying to myself is why I know I’m going thru it

[@dugmorea]

Take care Jennifer - take hope. With good support and taking care of yourself you can make progress.

[@helenilindsell5684]

Thank YOU

[@samannasir9026]

The problem is that when the patient has no insight .And ignore that he or she is schizophrenic.

[@harrieta6961]

You are amazing X 👏

[@gusislove]

The solitary confinement and abuse by medical personnel is still happening every day, even so far as targeting mentally ill minors- a vulnerable demographic. If this video hit your heart, I would recommend looking into the Troubled Teen Industry and WWASP Survivors.

[@chili.Hawaii]

I am proud of you.

[@shanehankins616]

I have schizoaffective disorder what is the process I can take anytips?

[@dugmorea]

Hello Shane - you have to be patient, recovery is a long journey but worth it. Develop good habits which can support good mental health and avoid those things which are not good for your mental health. Invest in your social relationships, keep nurturing your friendships, invest time in things you enjoy doing. Follow the Medical professionals advice but if you are finding the meds too strong and life limiting, keep talking with your professional about this and hopefully when the time is right your meds can get reviewed. Have hope that things can get better and slowly but surely as the months and years advance things can get better!

[@zaychosen777]

Let's see if the right side of my brain can retain this info.

[@mattryan3477]

Thanks Andrew 👍

[@Jesus_Saves_J2415]

Jesus helped me recover

[@dugmorea]

Thank you for your comment. Faith helps many people in recovery

[@praveenkumar-yo1xg]

How

[@criticadorauniversal]

No talks needed, but non-antipsychotic solutions

[@wonderwoman7969]

Well done :) very inspirational

[@dugmorea]

Thankyou

[@wonderwoman7969]

Andrew I'd like to get intouch with you for a chat regarding this, my husband is going through something similar. Your advice and experience would be really appreciated.

[@dugmorea]

@@wonderwoman7969 please make contact.

[@sheetalsharma2519]

If yes? Please send detail

[@Morbid_12]

There needs to be more research on this illness the medications out right now don't really work to good this a huge ignored illness theres way to many mentally ill on the street I have a family member who suffers from schizophrenia he's gotten injections and has done pills but both don't really make a big difference to where he can be an independent individual it's sad cause most schizophrenic people can't make it on there own and if they have family taking care of them it's extremely hard living with them this illness has plagued humanity since forever how is it that we haven't made barely any progress I think the funding just isn't there

[@dugmorea]

There are many people who have achieved significant meaningful recovery. Why aren’t these people valued and utilised . We can offer hope insight and “shine light on the path of recovery “. Maybe we are the experts in this illness but we are very rarely asked what works or included. This is the main point of my TED talk.

[@rorycoffey3052]

Hy I was watching this show from the 1990s called the extraordinary on Australian TV. And there was a woman called Julie lumen and she diagnosed this boy with multiple physical problems over the phone. just buy his date of birth and name. And she told him that she did it by meditation and taught. Which is ment to be impossible. And they asked how he felt about it . And he said that it felt like someone was spying on him. And he was being intruded on . That sounds just like schizophrenia to me. Maybe there's bad ones like Julie hew don't use it for good reasons.

[@wesleyjaywade]

Can’t hear the audio well

[@crazyeyes666]

thats excellent m8, i think ive recovered m8, only problem is lost a leg in the process

[@dugmorea]

Glad you feel you have recovered. Be interested to know what were the main factors in your recovery

[@crazyeyes666]

@@dugmorea I dont think theres any recovering to be done,its just the way we are, you just get on with it the best we can,sure it can be disheartining to have your confidence so low and no way of recovering it, but yeah whatever m8 it is what it is

[@marvinlaudinez1518]

Im here.

[@nithinambalatharanithinamb9735]

Iam onthe way

[@candoallthings6748]

Jesus Christ can help you, seek Him with a sincere heart

[@dodonodens8802]

:) May Your God Bless You

[@mitch3419]

What happens when you dont believe you are ill and you think everything going on ( family acting different, friends not understanding you, having the police called on you, going into hospitals continually) is all a conspiracy against you and nothing anyone says is the truth. You believe you arnt sick and the people around you are just treating you like the way they are as a form of punishment. How does someone like that take advise when all they think is that you are trying to sabotage thier life and goals? Or if the Medication gives them terrible side effects like akethisa and they won't take them because of the sides and not believing they are ill?

[@dugmorea]

Hello , your story sounds familiar, people with schizophrenia generally lack insight and don’t believe they are ill, this is common. You must just hope that a turning comes somehow from somewhere. It took me 5 years, 4 hospital admissions to eventually accept that there was something seriously wrong and that I needed help. Learning the hard way eventually hits home for many but it takes time. Hope can come in the form of a mental health professional or perhaps a fellow peer supporter, Have hope, an acceptance and turning will appear.

[@mitch3419]

@@dugmorea I was talking about myself. That was a very small amount of what happen to me. It took me 4 years and roughly 10 hospital stays and then ultimately a 3 month stay in just psych. Hospital with i think 25 different wards all psychiatric that you have to of had many unsuccessful hospital stays to go to and its one of the few places that can decided to put a patient on clozapine. Which in my case gave me multiple bad sides and didn't do much for my paranoia but it is the only antispychotic that is proven to work and affect the nicitinic receptors, clozapine gave me heart failure though and I needed to get taken off of it. Been good now for almost a year and still going strong

[@toddm6999]

@@mitch3419 Be strong and good to hear your doing well...things will get better and when things turn you will have wisdom and insight.

[@mitch3419]

@@toddm6999 I'm living my best life man. Things are great. That illness just a part of my story

[@MrSchnarf]

Try LEAP method: listen emphasize agree partner by Xavier Amador and his book: I’m not sick I don’t need help

[@larryknight6592]

Schizophrenia is the word Angel writing it down 2

[@SreejaCv]

How can the psychosis go if the fear is real? If there is a real threat on your life?

[@framarichardsonmatthew6049]

My heart just keeps thanking you and thanking you Dr Igudia for all you have done for me, you gave me your words that you could heal any sickness or disease, thank you for permanently curing me of my herpes virus you are amazing

[@Sumerian_Tamil]

What a coincidence 1980..but, I was free bird in another sense...I would call it as whole body chemical boiling as one gets out of fear.. didn't have anything else, but there was loss of sleep and I call it resulting in thought stammering...as a lecturer, think when you have a problem not getting proper term... Then I was on psycho analysis talking internal assessing my own thoughts as C, A, P and even a step ahead C of P or so interesting...very rarely even ten years before, I would hear my own teachers voice while writing answers to class room tests..very good gift, only on few occasions... Now at age of 65, say in 2021, though differing from a professor, this S is having a propensity to imagine and has elements of survival. See, why otherwise 100s of genes show up as causative or possibles to this S.. From boyhood, I was meta-cognitive and that had made me to understand this problem in particular way...though people might differ as case the case.. It was nice to watch this talk..

[@sheetalsharma2519]

sizophrenia patient can recover?

[@THeDoMeTB]

"recovered" in a sense that you can live a somewhat "normal" day to day life its still a everyday struggle but you are not "lost" so recover yes, completly heal no

[@themorningmist99]

100%. I suffered for years. I recovered, 100%. No meds, no more symptoms. It most certainly is possible.

[@thc7865]

TheMorningMist99: beyond schizophrenia did you take meds? Im schizo too and i see no hope for myself

[@themorningmist99]

@@thc7865 Hi, TH C. You see no hope for yourself, huh? I've been there too. I've lived in that dark place for years. I almost reached my end living in that land of hopelessness and despair. I know exactly how you feel, my friend. I did take meds! I took various types on and off for years. You see, I'd stop my meds, and then starve myself for at least a month at a time before ending up in emergency: emaciated, hallucinating, filled with fear and paranoia, as well as uncontrollably vomiting up bile. This was my pattern. Also constantly hearing voices. Never given a moments rest from a mind which refused to obey my will, but rebelled from the moment I awoke to until the moment I fell asleep; and then from sleep I would awaken in cold sweat from the terrors which would haunt me in my dreams. There was never an end in sight to the madness which plagued my mind. So again, I know exactly what it means to feel hopeless. Meds didn't cure me, nor did they offer me that hope which I desperately desired: the hope of the full and complete recovery that I wondered the streets at night in tears for. Eventually, however, I found a path FOR ME (I don't recommend anyone stopping their meds) that was possible without the use of medications. So I left it behind, and never looked back. It wasn't easy, and likely would've been impossible without conviction of heart. It's hard to see in a world filled with complete darkness, but there is light. It's feint, and easy to miss, but it's there. Edit: I should add: it's true that recovery means different things to different people. Essentially, it is what we are willing to settle for.

[@xxxxxx-kk7mh]

@@thc7865 im schizophrenic and i see no hope for myself either

[@ghirardellichocolate201]

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[@uv6483]

My left ear is experiencing negative symptoms

[@lankwon2345]

If you repent of your sins to God and ask him to heal you, he will heal you. I got healed of schizophrenia this way.

[@stars19735]

did he restore your mind?

[@ZalewskiKamil]

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[@junjieliu-z5n]

请问，大脑思维是如何保存的

[@junjieliu-z5n]

I'm having a bit of a hard time

[@marlowharris4125]

I have schizophrenia what can I do to recover from it and their productive liars.

[@nithinambalatharanithinamb9735]

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[@praveenkumar-yo1xg]

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[@LarryKnight-un1qx]

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[@robertkeys6873]

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[@lutchieperegil7857]

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that the Movie, the Trending on your community, your dream at night will be happening in the News,or in your town is Connected to your life with matching Telepathic Conversations that many will says they can hear voices, but, it's not. It's your Brains Neurons is talking to you along with what is the Environment, or the Movie you are watching, again I clarified with Transcendence emotions of E= MC2 invaded with your body.

[@robertkeys6873]

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[@dmtdreamz7706]

I want schizophrenia. If you have something that you really want in your life, spend lots of time thinking about it. The more you think the more ideas will pop up the more creative your gonna start to get. Your subconscious mind doesn't care if your vision is crazy. It doesnt care if you dont know how to do it. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower. A different psychedelic from a different planet every nanosecond. All sorts of dreams are possible. The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail. Synthesize "experience," to literally create experience, and control it, in the laboratory of our minds. A vision is a very emotional image, the most powerful image that you can come up with for yourself at this time. This vision will become like a hallucination in other peoples mind and this could be the cause of them creating extraordinary things.

[@rienavoir8250]

I have schizophrenia, and I'm glad the things I obsess about are not real.

[@blackthornss]

I don't want to be mean but. You do not want schizophrenia. I am coping better than some, but I am out of work, a burden on my family, I lost most of my friends (I only have one left, and some people I play dnd with but don't know too well). I can't go out alone (I can't buy my own groceries, I can't go hang out at a bar alone, I can't go to a fun activity like mini golf or the movies alone) because my schizophrenia flares up if I don't have my friend or a family member with me. I can't drink, smoke, or do drugs ever- as these put me at risk for a severe episode. This isn't even mentioning negative symptoms- my brain matter is going to degrade every year for the rest of my life much more significantly than my peers. My memory loss will get worse. I have no energy to clean the house and feed myself and do proper hygiene (I have gone months without bathing or brushing my teeth before- it gets that bad). All of my dreams- of being a historian, or working with animals, or competing in horse riding, or being able to join social groups and make friends or go on dates- indefinitely put on hold, for a recovery that I don't know when it will happen. Every day is spent constantly fighting to stay alive, stay sane, stay normal. Meds, as an aside, triggered extreme weight gain + a week long migraine. Another med made me suicidal + almost hospitalized me. I can't afford psychiatrists or therapists, and my local mental health system is so overloaded with patients that they couldn't fit me in even if I could afford it. But hey, if you still want it, I'm willing to trade :)

[@rienavoir8250]

@@blackthornss I feel you. THIS is schizophrenia. Its not just having strange beliefs or seeing things, it completely affects your life. I wish you so much strength, and if you need someone to talk to, I am here

[@blackthornss]

@@rienavoir8250 exactly! if you want to have a fun psychedelic time, take acid. Schizophrenia... is not like acid. If schizophrenia's one and only symptom was 'u hallucinate' I would be 100% more functioning lol. (and thank you for the kind words!)

[@TakaraoftheElves]

My brother is in the psych ward, freshly diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Shame on you. SHAME on you for wishing this nightmare, not only on yourself, but on your friends and family. Our family has not suffered this much and this intensely since my dad died. Shame on you. Pull yourself together, find a purpose for your life, and never wish this kind of misery on yourself or others again.

[@lutchieperegil7857]

This man has Dementia, in different aspects, not Schizophrenia.

[@dugmorea]

hello Calla, not sure I understand what you are saying. My diagnosis was 100% schizophrenia but I have been in recovery and full remission for many years. Please explain your diagnostic process, I have never been accessed for dementia. Thank you

[@lutchieperegil7857]

@@dugmorea Sir, Be Grateful if you have Schizophrenia, but, I have a Schizophrenia as well. It's a Beautiful Mental Disorder sir, don't get me wrong. But, the way you are telling your Story of Schizophrenia, it's not a Schizophrenia but, Dementia, has it's a Similar with Symptoms and Manifestations.

[@rienavoir8250]

@@lutchieperegil7857 It's not always the same for everyone, and dementia don'ts happen when you're young usually.

[@wonderwoman7969]

Troll.

[@MyNameJeff00]

I have both :) and I'm smiling because I've neutralized them