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Originally posted by Innocence Lost I love my meds, its the only thing keeping me normal.

This is what you call normal?

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery This is what you call normal?

Hell yeah bitch.

Speaking of getting treated like 2nd class citizen. Everytime i'm seriously happy or excited organik like hmm manic phase? like some retard wanna be prof.

Antisocial bitch.

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Originally posted by Innocence Lost Speaking of getting treated like 2nd class citizen. Everytime i'm seriously happy or excited organik like hmm manic phase? like some retard wanna be prof. Antisocial bitch.

You are a lunatic who needs to be locked up. For your own sake.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery You are a lunatic who needs to be locked up. For your own sake.

Your just hating and we all see it. You have have to be blind not to.

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson Damn really? When I did my mental health rotation I saw many. One patient went off his meds and the police had to drag him out of his parents' tool shed where they finally found him. His hair was all full of mats, fingernails overgrown, unshaven, soiled himself, etc etc. Was pretty neat to witness his transition back to "normalcy" over the weeks I did my placement there.

We saw a couple of people suffering from schizophrenia, but not the severe type that they spoke about. Besides, most of those patients were already under medication and in remission so they were pretty calm. We didn´t encounter any problem except some maniac chick who started telling a girl-colleague of mine she´s got "cock sucking lips". She started to cry, everybody started to laugh (including the maniac) and it was good times.

Anyway, we heard some terrifying cases of schizophrenics, but didn´t see the real hardcore treatment resistant cases. Needless to say, one needs to be extremely calm and understanding when dealing with such people. I lost count on the amount of times our courses got interrupted by some patients who just wanted to say ´hi´.

Mentally ill people are extremely stigmatized in society. Probably due to the great amount of fictional movies and unclear understanding of what these diseases mean. I don´t know.

PS. My colleague really had a filling pair of lips.

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Originally posted by Chimney Mentally ill people are extremely stigmatized in society. Probably due to the great amount of fictional movies and unclear understanding of what these diseases mean. I don´t know.

That is unfortunately very true. It also raises the bar for a lot of people to seek help.

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Originally posted by Chimney PS. My colleague really had a filling pair of lips.

We say "full" pair of lips. "Filling" implies that you ate her lips and that they filled you up quickly.

Or maybe you did mean that.

Chimney, do you know if it's possible to be psychotic/have psychotic symptoms without hallucinations, voices, or severe delusions and paranoia? Have you seen people with Social Anxiety occasionally misdiagnosed as psychotic or Schizophrenic/SZA?

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Originally posted by AlphaStarred Chimeny, do you know if it's possible to be psychotic/have psychotic symptoms without hallucinations, voices, or severe delusions and paranoia? Have you seen people with Social Anxiety occasionally misdiagnosed as psychotic or Schizophrenic/SZA?

Well, psychosis pretty much means one is unaware of the difference between reality and non-reality. It is possible for a psychosis episode to be associated with depression as an example. So basically the question, regardless of symptoms, is whether or not the person makes a difference between reality or not.

Social anxiety is a neurosis, which means that the person is aware of what is going on and his/her condition. I doubt that a psychosis episode can happen by default to someone suffering from this.

I guess if the social anxiety would display itself with unrealistic views, it could be possible, but highly improbable.

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Originally posted by Chimney Mentally ill people are extremely stigmatized in society. Probably due to the great amount of fictional movies and unclear understanding of what these diseases mean. I don´t know.

The common idea that all psychopath/sociopath/anti-social sufferers are all one-step away from pulling a Patrick Bateman fantasy has always confused the hell out of me.

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Originally posted by Lews The common idea that all psychopath/sociopath/anti-social sufferers are all one-step away from pulling a Patrick Bateman fantasy has always confused the hell out of me.

Yea, people usually think of the psychopath type like Chistian Bale, handsome, rich and in position of power. The intelligent psychopath, however that is a bit far away from the truth. I actually did a study on this and all ánti-social (psychopaths) were either unemployed or uneducated. A lot of truck drivers :P

Highly educated people are usually those suffering from anankastic personality disorder, the perfectionists which end up either with OCD, depression or both.

EDIT: I read "the Intelligence of psychopaths" two years ago. It was an interesting view, but it was like taking the upper 1% and saying everybody is like that.