I am so bored and my inhibitions are nonexistent right now.
TAKE ADVANTAGE, GO!
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
How many imaginary friends do you have? Have you ever murdered any of them?
None!
I am lucky in that I hear voices only very infrequently, almost all my hallucinations are visual/olfactory.
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
Have any of these voices influenced your actions in any way?
As much as someone making fun of you in your ear occasionally would influence anyone :shrug:
Though during the frenzy of an acute psychotic episode hearing "you're dead" over and over again makes you clutch your weapon a bit more tightly.
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
How old are you, How old were you when you were diagnosed? Considering average onset is around 18, I would guess you are close to that.
24; I was only officially diagnosed about a month ago.
I had slowly snowballing symptoms from about 1.5 years ago, and the first of a couple acute psychotic episodes in mid July.
I'm early in the illness and on medication already, so coping reasonably well.
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
Used to be 250lbs of muscle, now ~200lbs of muscle. I'm 6 feet tall, whatever that counts as. I'll probably eventually be tall and skinny as my motivation to do anything becomes more and more impaired.
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
Do your visual halucinations have a focus. I knew a dude who just saw his childhood dog doing dog things. LIke all the time. So what about you?
Well, more or less constantly I watch objects shift and turn around slightly. Like I can see them shifting in the fabric of space and time (sometimes I think I have special powers because of this).
Less constantly I will see people following me that aren't there, or spiders crawling around on my walls, various other bugs.
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
would you ever take the chance to become a drunken german stripper on not a pole, but a GIRAFFES NECK.
Maybe I already have :mellow.gif:
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
If I may, what is the hardest thing in life to deal with having schizophrenia? Also, if you would not mind answering, how did you first discover that you had the illness?
Used to be 250lbs of muscle, now ~200lbs of muscle. I'm 6 feet tall, whatever that counts as. I'll probably eventually be tall and skinny as my motivation to do anything becomes more and more impaired.
If I may, what is the hardest thing in life to deal with having schizophrenia? Also, if you would not mind answering, how did you first discover that you had the illness?
The hardest part of schizophrenia is the part that never gets the press. There are the "positive symptoms," which are an excess... such as hallucinations, paranoia, suspicion, delusions, etc, but there are also "negative symptoms." Negative symptoms consist of avolition (inability to motivate oneself while still considering the task something important), asociality (in short, social isolation), anhedonia (dampened ability to experience pleasure, almost an inability to anticipate an activity being pleasurable).
Medication treats the positive symptoms well - and they tend to be episodic anyways. They'll show up in the "relapse" cycles of the illness and then be much less active during other periods. The negative symptoms are treatment resistant and with you 100% of the time - showering even every 3 days feels like an insurmountable task... let alone job searching and work. Nothing seems fun or exciting - just "meh" all around. I avoid any kind of human interaction as much as possible - likely as a defense mechanism to minimize the uncomfortable feelings of being watched, thinking people are out for you, etc.
I found out I was sick when I completely lost touch with reality for a few hours - it was still different enough from my normal behavior that I noticed something wasn't right and went to a psychiatrist. If it had been a more gradual slide I probably would never have thought anything was wrong with me - schizophrenia impairs the ability to realize you're sick. Even writing this... I can say that I'm sick, I have these symptoms, whatever... but deep down I have great difficulty believing anything is actually wrong with me.
if you play minecraft with the trippy mod, will it look normal to you?
No, but if I played in on shrooooms maybe :blink.gif:
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Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean - unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights. I'm a thought-o-coaster, I'm the conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler.
TAKE ADVANTAGE, GO!
None!
I am lucky in that I hear voices only very infrequently, almost all my hallucinations are visual/olfactory.
Don't ****ing say 42.
Have any of these voices influenced your actions in any way?
There's no objective purpose, so make it whatever you want :smile.gif:
The mirror starts turning sideways. Just tried it.
As much as someone making fun of you in your ear occasionally would influence anyone :shrug:
Though during the frenzy of an acute psychotic episode hearing "you're dead" over and over again makes you clutch your weapon a bit more tightly.
24; I was only officially diagnosed about a month ago.
I had slowly snowballing symptoms from about 1.5 years ago, and the first of a couple acute psychotic episodes in mid July.
I'm early in the illness and on medication already, so coping reasonably well.
Or a different combination?
Used to be 250lbs of muscle, now ~200lbs of muscle. I'm 6 feet tall, whatever that counts as. I'll probably eventually be tall and skinny as my motivation to do anything becomes more and more impaired.
Now that being said. Ponies.
Well, more or less constantly I watch objects shift and turn around slightly. Like I can see them shifting in the fabric of space and time (sometimes I think I have special powers because of this).
Less constantly I will see people following me that aren't there, or spiders crawling around on my walls, various other bugs.
Maybe I already have :mellow.gif:
Liar.
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The hardest part of schizophrenia is the part that never gets the press. There are the "positive symptoms," which are an excess... such as hallucinations, paranoia, suspicion, delusions, etc, but there are also "negative symptoms." Negative symptoms consist of avolition (inability to motivate oneself while still considering the task something important), asociality (in short, social isolation), anhedonia (dampened ability to experience pleasure, almost an inability to anticipate an activity being pleasurable).
Medication treats the positive symptoms well - and they tend to be episodic anyways. They'll show up in the "relapse" cycles of the illness and then be much less active during other periods. The negative symptoms are treatment resistant and with you 100% of the time - showering even every 3 days feels like an insurmountable task... let alone job searching and work. Nothing seems fun or exciting - just "meh" all around. I avoid any kind of human interaction as much as possible - likely as a defense mechanism to minimize the uncomfortable feelings of being watched, thinking people are out for you, etc.
I found out I was sick when I completely lost touch with reality for a few hours - it was still different enough from my normal behavior that I noticed something wasn't right and went to a psychiatrist. If it had been a more gradual slide I probably would never have thought anything was wrong with me - schizophrenia impairs the ability to realize you're sick. Even writing this... I can say that I'm sick, I have these symptoms, whatever... but deep down I have great difficulty believing anything is actually wrong with me.
I have pics to prove it, so that won't really work :smile.gif:
No, but if I played in on shrooooms maybe :blink.gif: