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Q: schizo????????????????
I have a wierd simptom,i don’t know if it is wrong or good but i feel unsecure about it.

The prob is that i feel good all the time (like im high or such) i take omega 3 for 1 year and i don’t know if it is from omega 3 ? could it be ? however at night i seem to see small light flashes trough my eyes but not hallucinations,just small light flashes only in the night.

Anyone with schizophrenia feels this natural high feeling ?

A: you feel good all the time and your complaining about it? heh. Some people just feel good. I’m not really sure why it would be a problem. The flashes of lights on the other hand. do you see them alot? are they bothersome. Do you only see them when your in the dark? do you ever get headaches? they could be a type of migraine? or is it kinda like after you get your picture taken? it could just be that your staring at a computer screen too long. If it happens alot, bothers you, or effects your driving or anything like that, you should talk to your doctor about it. I’m pretty sure your not schizophrenic tho

Q: Whats the difference between schizo-affective and depression with psychotic features?
Just wondering how you differentiate between schizo-affective and depression with psychotic features?

A: Schizo-affective disorder is a mood disorder with schizophrenic tendencies, a person with SAD may hallucinate, have extreme paranoia(schizophrenia symptoms) and have major ups and downs (mood symptoms) for months on end.

A person with psychotic depression is always in a depressive state, but may experience an episode of psychosis, they could be hallucinating one day and be perfectly fine the next (but still have depression, of course). But a person with schizo-affective disorder will experience psychosis for a longer period of time.

Q: What is the difference between Schizophrenia and Schizo Effective?
I have heard of Schizophrenia, but now I recently heard about another disorder called Schizo Effective.
What is the difference in them?

A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoaffective_disorder

Sorry I can’t be of more help.

Q: Has anyone ever tried Vegepa for Schizophrenia or Schizo affective disorder?
I would like to know if anyone has tried Vegepa for Schizophrenia or Schizo affective disorder, and if there is anything that you can tell me about how well it has worked for them. Please help!

A: I buy my VegEPA from supplements-for-health.co.uk as i have M.E. and i have found it really useful.

I was talking to the owner of the site when i placed an order a few months ago and he said that a lot of his customers were from Australia and that they used it for Schizophrenia over there and found it very good at reducing the associated symptoms.

I hope this helps

Q: What do schizophrenic people feel/say/think when they see a schizo related movie?
I was wondering what does a person with schizophrenia say or what’s their opinion about schizo related movies (say ‘fight club’, ’shine’, ‘a beautiful mind’, etc.)? Are they accurate describing what that people live/feel/see?
[Also applies with other mental illnesses]
Thanks

A: I think that the nature of true mental illness would prevent them from even caring about the movie, or the characters in it. This is only my opinion, but I think schizophrenics are just trapped in their own brains, and aren’t concerned about much in our reality.

Q: How does heredity play a role in schizo affective disorder or can it be inherited?
specifically schizo affective disorder and not schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. also how long should a person be on medication if suffered from atleast 10 years of age to 30 years of age without medication.

A: The word “schizo-affective disorder” is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a “mental illness”, and promotes it as a “disease” that requires “treatment”.

It is not a “disease”, despite claims made in certain peoples answers here. There is NO credible scientific evidence that shows the existence of what constitutes “schizo-affecive disorder”, “schizophrenia” or ANY mental illness, as a genetic, biological/neurological disorder, brain abnormality or “chemical imbalance”.

“For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a ‘mental disorder’ is a physical disease. Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry’s orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign.” Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD (Neurologist, Pediatric Neurology), & Fellow at the American Academy of Neurology.

“Chemical imbalance…it’s a shorthand term really, it’s probably drug industry derived… We don’t have tests because to do it, you’d probably have to take a chunk of brain out of someone – not a good idea.” Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of the Committee of Public Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. July, 2005.

Symptoms that psychiatry labels as “schizo-affective disorder” (or it’s related disorders), can stem from any number of variable sources. Many people have overcome disorders such as “bipolar” and “schizo affective disorder” through effective megavitamin therapy and effective nutrition. A growing wealth of evidence supports that underlying nutritional deficiencies can cause even the most severe mental disorders, including “schizophrenia”. [1,2,3,4,5,6]

You may also be interested to know that the work undertaken by pioneers such as Dr. Lars Martensson and the late Dr. Loren Mosher show that there is also another way – far safer and more effective than psychiatric restraint, drugs and electro-shocks. For over a decade Loren R Mosher, MD, held a central position in American psychiatric research. He was the first Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health, 1969-1980. He founded the Schizophrenia Bulletin and for ten years he was its Editor-in-Chief. He also led the Soteria Project, which demonstrated that effective rehabilitation is possible without harmful antipsychotic drugs. Soteria provided a safe and sane environment where schizophrenic patients could stay, medication-free, with a young, nonprofessional staff trained to listen to and understand them and provide companionship. The idea was that schizophrenia or related disorders can often be overcome with the help of meaningful relationships, rather than with drugs, and that such treatment would eventually lead to unquestionably healthier lives. The results were fantastic. Over just 6 weeks, patients recovered as quickly as those treated with medication in hospitals. [7,8]

Bottom line? Psychiatry is a belief-system, a “faith”, not a science. Despite the huge marketing strategies, the so-called “research” and all the propaganda thrown at the world, there is not one iota of scientific evidence that proves that “schizophrenia” or ANY mental illness, in fact, exists as an actual –medical disease–.

If you have been told differently then know this: You have been lied to.

For more information, please visit:

http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters
Decoding Psychiatric Propaganda

See also http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/default.htm#S and http://www.webcom.com/thrive/schizo/

Q: What would a schizo, whose split thinks the same as the normal be called as?Are there any such?
Most movies, I havent met a real life schizo (or rather both sides of them) show a 2 different personalities.. mostly contrasting in thoughts.. ,
What would a person with like minded schizo – dual behave?

A: A person with schizophrenia doesn’t have dual personalities.

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations.

Despite its etymology, schizophrenia is not synonymous with dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder or “split personality”; in popular culture the two are often confused.

My husband’s ex-wife suffers from it and she is delusional. She accused my husband of sleeping around on her and fathering at least 100 children.

Q: What exactly is schizo effective disorder?
What are the symptoms in detail, and how is it diagnosed?

A: Schizoaffective disorder is a condition in which a person experiences a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations or delusions, and of mood disorder symptoms, such as mania or depression.

The symptoms of schizoaffective disorder vary from person to person. Generally, people who have the condition experience psychotic symptoms — such as hallucinations, disorganized thinking and paranoid thoughts — as well as a mood disturbance, such as depressed or manic mood. They tend to be very antisocial and shunned by the people around them.

Psychotic features and mood disturbances may occur at the same time or may appear on and off interchangeably. The course of the schizoaffective disorder usually features cycles of severe symptoms followed by an improved outlook. To establish a diagnosis, a person must have demonstrated, at some point, delusions or hallucinations for at least two weeks without evidence of mood disorder symptoms.

Most commonly, the mood disorder accompanying the schizophrenic features is either bipolar disorder (bipolar-type schizoaffective) or depression (depressive-type schizoaffective).

Signs and symptoms of schizoaffective disorder may include:

Strange or unusual thoughts or perceptions
Paranoid thoughts and ideas
Delusions — having false, fixed beliefs
Hallucinations, such as hearing voices
Unclear or confused thoughts (disorganized thinking)
Bouts of depression
Manic mood or a sudden increase in energy and behavioral displays that are out of character
Irritability and poor temper control
Thoughts of suicide or homicide
Irrelevant or incoherent speech
Catatonic behavior — lack of response, sometimes with an extreme agitation that’s not influenced by the environment
Deficits in attention and memory
Lack of concern about hygiene and physical appearance
Changes in energy and appetite
Sleep disturbances, such as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep

A diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder should be made only when both definite schizophrenic and definite affective symptoms are prominent simultaneously, or within a few days of each other, within the same episode of illness, and when, as a consequence of this, the episode of illness does not meet criteria for either schizophrenia or a depressive or manic episode.

The term should not be applied to patients who exhibit schizophrenic symptoms and affective symptoms only in different episodes of illness. It is common, for example, for a schizophrenic patient to present with depressive symptoms in the aftermath of a psychotic episode (see post-schizophrenic depression).

Some patients have recurrent schizoaffective episodes, which may be of the manic or depressive type or a mixture of the two. Others have one or two schizoaffective episodes interspersed between typical episodes of mania or depression. In the former case, schizoaffective disorder is the appropriate diagnosis. In the latter, the occurrence of an occasional schizoaffective episode does not invalidate a diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder or recurrent depressive disorder if the clinical picture is typical in other respects.

Q: how do you know the difference between extreme mood swings and being schizo?
i have this friend. one second she wants everything clean and organized then the other she simply doesnt care!

and sometimes, she seems so quiet and other times she’s louder than a megaphone.

some of her traits doesn’t have much consistency. does she have a problem?

A: It sounds like she’s bi-polar.

Being a schizo means you are completely out of touch with reality.

Encourage her to seek medical help.

Your friend does not have OCD.

Q: If a same person using different avatars engaging in chats forums, provided he is not schizo, how to uncover ?
Provided a person does not have split personality but involve himself in different aliases in chat forums, are there any common grounds, similar traits, obvious written hhabitsthat we can look for to unmask this person. There must be some logic or psychological guidelines that we can use to decipher these imitators. Any clues ?

A: That would be very hard to do. I know for a fact that a friend of mine has two names in Yahoo! Answers and both are now in Level 5. He is so precocious that if he has used only one name, he could probably be in Level 6 or 7 already. But he say that he enjoys Yahoo! Answers so much that he is sort of competing the two names against each other. There’s nothing wrong about it, he says. Idk, but it could be a time consuming process to maintain two names and reach a high level. But my friend is already retired and has many hours to spend his time in good pursuits.

Q: What causes an individual to develop schizo-affective disorder?

A: It is genetic in some cases, but that other answerer is right – researchers are looking into other possible causes. But in any case, it is a combo of genetics and environment. A history of severe trauma as a child greatly increases your chance of getting any serious mental disorder, and also makes the disorder more severe and more resistent to treatment. Apperantly, severe stress as a child can turn OFF genes that previously were turned ON, so they no longer code for certain proteins in the brain, and then your brain doesn’t work right, and these genetic problems can actually be passed on to your kids. This is totally new genetics research – i think it is called epigenetics, and was not believed this could happen even 5 years ago, or so.

Q: How can you tell the difference between being ‘a sensitive’ and being mildly ’schizo’?
I don’t actually SEE things but I get the feeling that someone invisible is there. I believe in ghosts so it’s kind of exciting to think I might be able to understand metaphysics a little better someday but I’m a little scared that I could lose my sanity over this.

A: Just to give you some background on schizophrenia. Most people that are schizophrenic don’t see things, their hallucinations are usually auditory in nature.

There are three major areas that can contribute to having schizophrenia.
1. Biological Influences
-If you have schizophrenic people in your family will raise your likelihood of developing the disease
-prenatal/birth complications increase possibility of developing the disease.
-Brain chemistry (abnormality the dopamine and glutamate systems)
-Brain Structure (enlarged ventricles this maybe a side effect of the disease or a precursor not sure)
2. Social influences
-Environment (early family experiences can trigger onset.
-Culture influences
3. Emotional and cognitive influences
-interaction styles that are high in criticism, hostility, and emotional over involvement can trigger a relapse

Symptoms
Delusions-a persistent belief(s) contrary to reality
Hallucinations – usually auditory but may be visual or tactile
disorganized speech- jumping subject to subject and not able to stay on one train of though.

Schizophrenia is a rare condition only actively occurring in about 1% of the population. However, if you are concerned I would recommend seeing a clinical psychologist.

Q: If a same person using different avatars engaging in chat forums, provided he is not schizo, how to uncover ?
Provided a person does not have split personality but involve himself in different aliases in chat forums, are there any common grounds, similar traits, obvious written habits that we can look for to unmask this person. There must be some logic or psychological guidelines that we can use to decipher these imitators. Any clues ?

A: Sometimes there are no ways to tell. But if they stay on the forum long enough, eventually they will get caught in a lie or post something that will allow you to know who they really are…. Most moderators and Admins on a forum don’t all allow duplicate memberships. I know we don’t at theflirtingshack. Although, I’m sure computer literate people can and do get around rules. Just be careful

Q: Can a behavioral health therapist rehabilitate a schizo affective individual?
Like make them act more socially acceptable?

A: I interned at a mental health facility for a few months. Medication helps to soften the symptoms. It would be best to see a therapist in order for you to receive an official diagnosis. For instance, there are a lot of people out there who think they have bi-polar when really it’s something completely different.

I hope everything works out for you.

Q: what can i do with a 31 year old daughter who is heavily addicted to pain medication and is paranoid schizo?
She has already been Baker Acted 3 or 4 times and always released to me. I don’t have the tools to deal with her. She continues to use hydrocodone, somas, percaset, anti anxiety meds. Doctors continue to write perscription after perscription she claims she has back pain. Pain clinics will give her whatever she wants. Living is impossible. She is becomming more insane everyday.

A: First, I would discuss this destructive cycle with her psychiatrist. If she is spinning out of control and abusing medication, he/she may be able to commit her to a psych. hospital. If she has the power to go and get her pain medicines, you have the power to keep her out of your house. She isn’t going to stop until she is ready or dead. I know this sounds tough, but you are allowing her to do whatever she wants. She may seek shelter at a halfway house, or other living facility. You are ‘enabling’ her to use, don’t sign anything to allow her to be released to you again. Contact NA (Narcotics Anonymous, http://www.na.org ) for help. Good luck!

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