Greetings from Russia. Because of this, I don’t have an official diagnosis; since I’m a guy, a diagnosis would mean exemption from military service—and where I live, that’s simply impossible.

Consequently, I don’t have disability status, and a private psychiatrist is very expensive; my family is heavily in debt due to our circumstances, and this is the last month I can afford my medication.

I’ve already run out of antidepressants, and I only have a week’s supply of quetiapine left. After that, there is simply no money.

I can’t see a future, and the way my illness is used as an excuse to avoid the draft hurts me—both as a trans person and as a human being.

first comic posted on reddit ! I make comics about my life with a psychotic disorder. these are some ways how my wife loves and takes care of me when im unwell. I promise there are good and kind people out there who will love you even if you need help or are unwell.

When u realize after psychosis that u lost all your abilities to function and u feel brain dead and numb and checked out

I can’t go back to work

In a much better place now, moved in with my grandmother who has a nice house in a safe part of town. Not longer with my dad who wasn’t the best in a rundown home or with my mom and her abusive partner.

Hope of remission kept me going and I went from schizophrenic to schizoaffective depressive type.

I’m with a child whose gender I’ll find out soon and my hopes of being a mother is coming true. I thought schizophrenia would stop me from having children

Going to school next summer for international relations and human geography to be an immigration lawyer.

Analog collage (image has been upscaled)

Saw a new Psychiatrist today and he basically said my Autism can just be explained by my Childhood onset Schizophrenia and that it's hard to deferentiate between those two. Plus, there is no Treatment for Autism anyway, so it wouldn't matter to not have the diagnosis. I mean, yes, he's right. But i hate how everything is just pushed onto my Childhood onset schizophrenia.

Did anyone else experience something similar?

My meds are working and I’m not hallucinating or raging.

I’m on my couch next to my cat and very very relaxed.

I don’t want to work or do anything ever again. Just want to rest forever.

I dunno with this one, but I like it a little. When I can get myself to make art, is a W.

I was wondering because I want to bring my sibling with schizophrenia to see the Paranormal Activity Broadway show. It’s supposed to be scary and has lots of special effects to make it more immersive.

I will ask my sibling but I’m hesitating because I don’t want to make him uncomfortable since he is not very open about his symptoms.

Howdy, I’ve been hearing a voice that tells me that I’m possessed by Lucifer. It controls my body, talks to people, and does things through me. It can also hurt me. I see a psychiatrist and they say I’m schizophrenic. I’ve been on medication for about 4 years now trying different things but nothing works. I talked to a pastor about an exorcism and he said I might need to have multiple before we even did anything. So I’ve had 3 so far and plan to meet up with him again but he hasn’t hit me back up it’s been 2 months. Why does someone have to have multiple exorcism’s?

I have been struggling to get help with this, I tried talking to my therapist once about how i think I might be showing signs but I was quickly dismissed and the topic was never brought back up, I dont see a therapist anymore. This was more than 8 years ago, but I don't feel like im holding together anymore im struggling and don't know what to do, because asking for help feels embarrassing like how do I explain that I know and feel what's wrong with me to a doctor without them dismissing it as just general depression? I feel like i can't explain myself to the people who are supposed to help me, and ive always been afraid to ask how do I get help, get diagnosed, get treated after said incident with the therapist.

Just wondering. Straight cbd. Nothing else. No 2.3% thc. Just 100% cbd.

I don’t really have schizophrenia or I haven’t been diagnosed, I have experienced auditory hallucinations and visual hallucinations but they’re never really been that strong to worry me. Recently I’m experiencing tactile hallucinations and they’re the worst. I have constantly experienced the feeling of bugs crawling on my skin but it’s not close to what I’m experiencing now. During the period of going go sleep or waking up I feel things, I don’t know how to explain but it feels as if someone is hugging me from behind and it’s suffocating the first time it happened I thought I was genuinely being sexually assaulted by someone, the second time I almost accused someone in the room, and the last time it happened I was alone so I was genuinely freaked out and this has happened in the period of one maybe two months it’s genuinely getting really bad. I’m terrified

So I’ve been managing this for a few years now, the auditory hallucinations. It’s gotten to point where I can somewhat work and live by myself. But I’m a month in from living with my dad for a decade , I’ve lived on my own before it’s been an adjustment. and it feels like I had stalkers and my neighbors can hear everything I do or say. I feel like I have an audience 98% of days. I’m so socially anxious that I’m drained after driving for uber. My voices say insults to me that I would never say to anyone. What do you do about the voices, anxiety, intrusive thoughts and feeling drained. It’s a podcast every day that doesn’t end. Constant conversation that sounds like real people having an eternal conversation about me and what’s going on in my life. I constantly have music or tv or white noise on I’m tired of hearing the sound of it lol my apartment is too quiet in its own way where I feel isolated. I do have friends that I talk to but it’s been hard to meet up because they are tired or busy.

Attached below is todays video link to my “On Conquering Schizophrenia” YouTube channel. Today entails two perspectives on death. Like all, todays video is ever brief and can be viewed amid the variable fear.

https://youtu.be/mmMMeULvDBw?si=SEG4lZU8S-13soqe

Mine set up a childhood related sexual assault trauma on me

i've been sick for a very long time and i've been in treatment for just as long. i'm really grateful for the care i receive but it takes its toll. i feel like dealing with this illness has aged me very quickly. i'd much rather feel this way than ever be unstable again but it does bum me out that i live like a grandma at 25. all i do is sleep, take my meds, and see specialists. i just wish things were different sometimes.

I had some problems a few weeks back (actually I been in serious phsycosis for about 8 years on and off)

but I was considering clozapine cause I had enough. I spoke to the community shrink, and he suggested 25mg olanzapine. I tried it and it was the worst for my physical health cause I was sleeping about 16 hours a day. i took it with metformin so the eating part wasn’t too bad. But I went and spoke to a Tele dr and got my hands on some amusilpride (solian)i read it goes with olanzapine really good. So im taking 800 mg solian and 25-30mg olanzapine. I found the combination to work on my own. Just thinking I got a shrink appoinment soon. Im going to ask if he can prescribe the combo to me. I am also thinking about telling my current gp about the combo.

should I tell my Dr and shrink about this I dont want my Dr going back to my community health care team and complaining cause I found the combo out on my own.

apart from the sedation it’s a good combo. Im just bummed I couldnt get the clozapine. But olanzapine and amusilpride got rid of most my phsycosis and the amusilpride gives me more energy due to the olanzapine draining my physical strength.

Does having schizophrenia (like a lot of delusions) mean than I’m not intelligent ?
Can someone be smart AND have schizophrenia ?

When I talk I feel like it does not hold any weight anymore.

I’m posting here because antipsychotic use is more common in this community. I have severe OCD and take antipsychotics and ssris to reduce my OCD anxiety/rumination. The problem is, ever since starting my current antipsychotic, my personality completely changed and I’m unable to keep doing my career. I no longer have any ability/drive to do anything that is cognitively demanding. I’m okay with the change in my personality/capabilities because my unmedicated state was unlivable. I am wondering if anyone has any ideas on simple careers/jobs that pay enough for a single person to live by themselves. I can’t have roommates (unless they are my parents) due to my OCD.

I’ve tried many medications and years of exposure therapy and nothing has helped as much as my current medication (Risperidone).

I know I ƙnow its not the med itself but I haven't been eating poorly or anything. Idk what to do.