couldn't help to read the mental illness part
here is an easy way to determine if you are doing it right
look at my about me page then think about the character
Or don't explicitly make your character mentally ill since 9/10 times you're likely to get it wrong and/or upset someone, so just dance around it by including several symptoms of potentially several different kinds and let the others make the diagnosis OOC.
but the thing with some of the mental illnesses is that it doesn't always have to be only the positive and negative symptoms together like that.
so its not always, the government is after me, i see dead people, im going try to juggle chainsaw underneath babies kind of thing.
it can mostly be negative symptoms which are Negative symptoms are deficits of normal emotional responses or of other thought processes, and respond less well to medication.[8] They commonly include flat or blunted affect and emotion, poverty of speech (alogia), inability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), lack of desire to form relationships (asociality), and lack of motivation (avolition). Research suggests that negative symptoms contribute more to poor quality of life, functional disability, and the burden on others than do positive symptoms.[20] People with prominent negative symptoms often have a history of poor adjustment before the onset of illness, and response to medication is often limited. from wikipedia Like me they were actually thinking i had depression with psychotic features instead of schizophrenia because i showed so many of only the negative symptoms. but i did have positive symptoms especially in middle school, i thought i had powers given to me from the gods and that i know the TRUE meaning of life, that i was some kind of demigod, stuff like that, paranoia, thinking i could think to people and they could think back to me, but no one ever really knew because i never told anyone. but most of those thoughts just seemed to concede to what little rationality i had, which i still find weird. also i have never abuse any kind of substance
well what im trying to say is that you dont need all the symptoms of schizophrenia to be a schizophrenic just as long as you have maybe 1 positive symptom and negative symptoms you are okay
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I'm pretty mentally ill.
I have a likely chance of having schizophrenia - hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, mumbling, constant talking-to-self, erratic behaviour, disagreements with mind and self...
Although I swing from sad to extremely cheerful within seconds. Positive 'eh?
I really can't figure if such a thing as a "positive trait" exists in things like Scizophrenia. It's part of why it's considered an illness, like ADHD; you don't function properly.
Part of the challenge of a mental illness other than a label is to write around it as if your character lives it. Someone with ADD for instance likely having a lot of incomplete projects if it's severe. Scizophrenics having to deal with all the associations, and trying to live through it; whether or not this requires medication or not.
It's not simply a quirk. It's a life-long issue that effects the character through-and-through.
Schizophrenia also isn't the kind of disease you shrug at and go "Yeah, I probably have it." It's very serious, obviously. And most people who have it don't even know it. Or they deny it. It all depends on severity but Schizophrenia is something that is crippling and very hard to live with, and I think a lot of people underestimate just how bad of a disease it is and apply it to a character as a way to justify weird behavior. Schizophrenia is more than that. It's more than talking to yourself. It's seeing things where there is nothing. It's hearing things in your head that sometimes command you to do things. It's extreme paranoia - ect. It's very severe and a lot of people don't seem to realize it when they apply it to a character. if you want to justify your character talking to himself, or having mood-swings, just say it's a natural thing of his/her, because chances are you won't be able to play a character with Schizophrenia, at least not accurately.
Schizophrenia also isn't the kind of disease you shrug at and go "Yeah, I probably have it." It's very serious, obviously. And most people who have it don't even know it. Or they deny it. It all depends on severity but Schizophrenia is something that is crippling and very hard to live with, and I think a lot of people underestimate just how bad of a disease it is and apply it to a character as a way to justify weird behavior. Schizophrenia is more than that. It's more than talking to yourself. It's seeing things where there is nothing. It's hearing things in your head that sometimes command you to do things. It's extreme paranoia - ect. It's very severe and a lot of people don't seem to realize it when they apply it to a character. if you want to justify your character talking to himself, or having mood-swings, just say it's a natural thing of his/her, because chances are you won't be able to play a character with Schizophrenia, at least not accurately.
if you truly have schizophrenia
that probably isn't a good idea at all
you know why there are so many more older people in the hospital than younger people with schizophrenia? (well this is based on my brief observations of being in the adolescent compared to the adult section)
because it grows,
for me it went from subtle as i said in my last post
to what my about me profile says in a matter of 5 years
it doesn't get any better the longer you avoid it
though the medication does just numb you and any emotion you want to feel in large amounts seems to get suppressed, well maybe thats just me but it hurts my head.
But for me, i dont think im going to need my medication anymore, stopped taking it for a few days already i can feel it all coming back,
i was thinking i would just rip myself open with a knife, or atleast bleed to death with a knife in me no one comes home for 8 hours. I know it will be painful but i feel as if i deserve it.
I have the social skills of a 5 year old, can barely talk to people, can barely do things whats the point? isnt life mostly built around communication
though i did find it strange those 2 actually cared enough to reply on my thread "some thoughts" in the General Off Topic area was not expecting that actually made me feel slightly better for a bit.
oh and the positive symptoms are not actually positive as in happy, its positive in a way similar to being positive for hepatitis, it means you definitely have it.
if you truly have schizophrenia
that probably isn't a good idea at all
you know why there are so many more older people in the hospital than younger people with schizophrenia? (well this is based on my brief observations of being in the adolescent compared to the adult section)
because it grows,
for me it went from subtle as i said in my last post
to what my about me profile says in a matter of 5 years
it doesn't get any better the longer you avoid it
though the medication does just numb you and any emotion you want to feel in large amounts seems to get suppressed, well maybe thats just me but it hurts my head.
But for me, i dont think im going to need my medication anymore, stopped taking it for a few days already i can feel it all coming back,
i was thinking i would just rip myself open with a knife, or atleast bleed to death with a knife in me no one comes home for 8 hours. I know it will be painful but i feel as if i deserve it.
I have the social skills of a 5 year old, can barely talk to people, can barely do things whats the point? isnt life mostly built around communication
though i did find it strange those 2 actually cared enough to reply on my thread "some thoughts" in the General Off Topic area was not expecting that actually made me feel slightly better for a bit.
oh and the positive symptoms are not actually positive as in happy, its positive in a way similar to being positive for hepatitis, it means you definitely have it.
Me too. My mind sometimes tricks me into cutting myself (or at least embarrassing me in front of a crowd). And yeah, I have rather strained social skills (I always seem to offend someone).
Thankfully nobody believes me.
Despite people noticing my rather weird behaviour. Especially around bludgeoning air with a crowbar I found at school (pipe bent into that shape). Also watching me imagine this post several minutes ago before actually posting it.
Besides, the law in NZ is NOT the same as the US'.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD. I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR STAY, MAYNE!
*5 years later*
OK, YOUR PARENTS ARE DIVORCING AND YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE DEAD. DON'T FORGET YOU HAVE SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES AND NO SHELTER NEXT. WE'RE CURRENTLY PLANNING WHETHER FOR YOU TO BE KIDNAPPED OR HAVE NO JOB LATER ON.
THEN YOU DIE FROM A PAINFUL HEART ATTACK. ENJOY YOUR STAY!
OK, YOUR PARENTS ARE DIVORCING AND YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE DEAD. DON'T FORGET YOU HAVE SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES AND NO SHELTER NEXT. WE'RE CURRENTLY PLANNING WHETHER FOR YOU TO BE KIDNAPPED OR HAVE NO JOB LATER ON.
THEN YOU DIE FROM A PAINFUL HEART ATTACK. ENJOY YOUR STAY!
This should be an RP.
Then join the service. They'll fix you right up.
Or at least that's what my dad's been telling me for 16 years.
Suddenly a nuke falls from the sky and everything ceases to exist.
Except the nuke is held up by thrusters.
Now go tell casuals.
here is an easy way to determine if you are doing it right
look at my about me page then think about the character
My DeviantArt, so sexy
so its not always, the government is after me, i see dead people, im going try to juggle chainsaw underneath babies kind of thing.
it can mostly be negative symptoms which are
Negative symptoms are deficits of normal emotional responses or of other thought processes, and respond less well to medication.[8] They commonly include flat or blunted affect and emotion, poverty of speech (alogia), inability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), lack of desire to form relationships (asociality), and lack of motivation (avolition). Research suggests that negative symptoms contribute more to poor quality of life, functional disability, and the burden on others than do positive symptoms.[20] People with prominent negative symptoms often have a history of poor adjustment before the onset of illness, and response to medication is often limited.
from wikipedia
Like me they were actually thinking i had depression with psychotic features instead of schizophrenia
because i showed so many of only the negative symptoms.
but i did have positive symptoms especially in middle school, i thought i had powers given to me from the gods and that i know the TRUE meaning of life, that i was some kind of demigod, stuff like that, paranoia, thinking i could think to people and they could think back to me, but no one ever really knew because i never told anyone.
but most of those thoughts just seemed to concede to what little rationality i had, which i still find weird. also i have never abuse any kind of substance
well what im trying to say is that you dont need all the symptoms of schizophrenia to be a schizophrenic just as long as you have maybe 1 positive symptom and negative symptoms you are okay
I have a likely chance of having schizophrenia - hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, mumbling, constant talking-to-self, erratic behaviour, disagreements with mind and self...
Although I swing from sad to extremely cheerful within seconds. Positive 'eh?
Part of the challenge of a mental illness other than a label is to write around it as if your character lives it. Someone with ADD for instance likely having a lot of incomplete projects if it's severe. Scizophrenics having to deal with all the associations, and trying to live through it; whether or not this requires medication or not.
It's not simply a quirk. It's a life-long issue that effects the character through-and-through.
My DeviantArt, so sexy
I like it that way.
You talking to me?
Med-school taught me Schizophrenia ain't nothin' to mess with.
if you truly have schizophrenia
that probably isn't a good idea at all
you know why there are so many more older people in the hospital than younger people with schizophrenia? (well this is based on my brief observations of being in the adolescent compared to the adult section)
because it grows,
for me it went from subtle as i said in my last post
to what my about me profile says in a matter of 5 years
it doesn't get any better the longer you avoid it
though the medication does just numb you and any emotion you want to feel in large amounts seems to get suppressed, well maybe thats just me but it hurts my head.
But for me, i dont think im going to need my medication anymore, stopped taking it for a few days already i can feel it all coming back,
i was thinking i would just rip myself open with a knife, or atleast bleed to death with a knife in me no one comes home for 8 hours. I know it will be painful but i feel as if i deserve it.
I have the social skills of a 5 year old, can barely talk to people, can barely do things whats the point? isnt life mostly built around communication
though i did find it strange those 2 actually cared enough to reply on my thread "some thoughts" in the General Off Topic area was not expecting that actually made me feel slightly better for a bit.
oh and the positive symptoms are not actually positive as in happy, its positive in a way similar to being positive for hepatitis, it means you definitely have it.
Me too. My mind sometimes tricks me into cutting myself (or at least embarrassing me in front of a crowd). And yeah, I have rather strained social skills (I always seem to offend someone).
Thankfully nobody believes me.
Despite people noticing my rather weird behaviour. Especially around bludgeoning air with a crowbar I found at school (pipe bent into that shape). Also watching me imagine this post several minutes ago before actually posting it.
Besides, the law in NZ is NOT the same as the US'.
Man.
Kindergarten makes the world seem peaceful.
Then suddenly you're shoved in the face with problems within 20 years.
Life is unbalanced. Wonky too.
PICK A DAMN SIDE ALREADY.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD. I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR STAY, MAYNE!
*5 years later*
OK, YOUR PARENTS ARE DIVORCING AND YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE DEAD. DON'T FORGET YOU HAVE SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES AND NO SHELTER NEXT. WE'RE CURRENTLY PLANNING WHETHER FOR YOU TO BE KIDNAPPED OR HAVE NO JOB LATER ON.
THEN YOU DIE FROM A PAINFUL HEART ATTACK. ENJOY YOUR STAY!
This should be an RP.
Then join the service. They'll fix you right up.
Or at least that's what my dad's been telling me for 16 years.