bipolar I with psycosis runs in the family, also i have disorganized schizophrenia.
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Q: i have schizophrenia and dont know how i got it. my family has a history of bipolar,not schizophrena
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1/14/10 10:30pm
Hi Kalvie,
It is possible to have schizophrenia when everyone else in your family has bipolar. I know a guy who has schizophrenia whose daughter has bipolar by the way so it can happen the other way around too.
And sometimes a diagnosis can change over time when new symptoms present themselves. Schizoaffective by the way is a combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder like bipolar.
I wouldn't get so hung up over the actual diagnosis.
Like MichelleP said I would find ways to develop coping skills so that you can live well in your recovery. The diagnosis of schizophrenia is not the end of the world.
You can move forward in the future and have a good life.
Recovery takes time and it requires patience and courage and adaptability.
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We will support you in what you're going through.
Best wishes,
Christina
1/14/10 4:16am
I have paranoid schizophrenia and can hear voices. It is not too bad. I use to think my world would end because of it. Through time I adapted to it. It really didn't take that long. I really have a bad memory though. I was trying to think of someone's name from school and a voice that I hear the majority of the time told me it. He wants me to write down his name. His name is John.
My brain has a voice and his name is John. I can hear others too, but John is the primary voice. He can tell the others to shut up and they listen. I really wish they would find more about this illness out because I want to study it.
It seems though the more I do to help myself the less I hear the voices. It really isn't the end of the world.
From what I read anyone can get schizophrenia even if you don't have a history of it in your family. I do. My mom has it, but it is a lower chance if you don't have a history of it and a greater chance if you do have a history of it in your family. But you can still get it.
They don't know much about this illness yet.
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Thank you I am glad you are doing well too Christina. I think for me it was the voices that did it, but now I am in some ways glad I hear voices. That is really a strange thing, but it is true. The voices are not bad and are funny and tell me to go to school and everything else and learn.
I know now that is me now and not people following me and stalking me. At one time I thought it was people. Actually my brain actually made people names up and I even saw people that weren't really there and I would actually hallucinate people talking about me. I hallucinated my family talking about me too. I thought they were trying to kill me. Really they weren't. My brain was making stuff up. Funny though when I confronted my family about the stuff. They knew I was nuts. My brain stopped hallucinating things about them. I really wonder if my brain knows what is real and what isn't, because I think when I hallicinate it knows that stuff isn't real and people are not talking about me and I haven't hallucinated in quite a while. Thanks to my brain.
It showed me once when I was taking my mediation by the way that I can still hallucinate people talking about me even though I am taking the medication. I seen two girls talking the one day and John (one of my voices) said something like you still don't think we could do that because you are on the medicine? And I didn't think my brain could, but it did just to show me that it still could.
That I think was the last time I hallucinated anyone talking about me. My brain once did a remember that and one time had a person talk about me and say stuff that made me scared that I actually knew and then quickly stopped it once I remembered it from months ago when I still thought my schizophrenia was actually real people and that people were after me.
I hope someone reads this and understands just because you hear voices does not mean anything and they can actually make you a better person depending on what those voices say. Mine tell me I should learn and go to school which I will probably end up doing.