I used to smell thing, taste things and feel things and see things. I heard people talking about me, but I never heard voices. The psychiatric nurse said I was not schizophrenic at first because I never heard voices. I waited so long and suffered for a long time, she said I did not need to see a psychiatrist. When I eventually saw one I had no idea what she was saying. I thought she said something else and I said yes to being on drugs and to hearing voices and she said it was drug induced. I know it could not be as I have always been anti drug. She would not believe when my mother said it was not and said she would not know. People at mental health treat people strangely as if there is something wrong with them. People with mental illness are very clever and creative. They do not get the respect they deserve. I now see a private GP and am ok.