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- zephc, on 11/14/2009, -2/+72I had to look up what 'top' meant (thanks, urban dictionary!) - it means to kill. It makes sense in context, but Brits have WAY too many colloquialisms for such a tiny island
- Daedalus000, on 11/14/2009, -0/+54Note: Schizophrenia is not the same condition as Multiple Personality Disorder, or Dissociative Identity Disorder. They are two different afflictions.
- MSUKate, on 11/14/2009, -1/+52Schizophrenia is not "multiple personalities"
"multiple personalities" would be considered Disassociate Identity Disorder (DID) - atlasdugged, on 11/13/2009, -1/+45My heart goes out to Sandy and all those who suffer from Mental illness. I just hope that in the next 10 years the advances in brain research can help these people.
- camilos007, on 11/14/2009, -0/+41Extemenly interesting but why so short? I spent a minute looking for the 'next page' link.
- thorny904, on 11/14/2009, -0/+36I grew up with a schizophrenic mother, who eventually spent all my adult life in a mental institution until her heart gave out and was transferred to a nursing home, where she died about 15 years ago. My heart goes out to all victims of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
- dtele, on 11/13/2009, -0/+32Imagine having to decide to "top myself or eat breakfast?" every morning?
- mikebritton, on 11/14/2009, -0/+30Why don't schizophrenics ever hear calming voices?
- Miamisun, on 11/14/2009, -2/+26So having schizophrenia is like having Bobby Boucher's mama from The Waterboy in your head at all times?
- AndreiSavin, on 11/14/2009, -7/+31FTA : "They say terrible things like, "You are a whore, Satan's whore". Once they told me food and drink was the Devil's food so I fasted for a week."
So that's how religion started... - m3arvk, on 11/14/2009, -2/+23Body thetans.
- GregLoire, on 11/14/2009, -1/+22I visited the comments purely to digg up everyone who pointed this out. One of my biggest pet peeves, right up there with people who think that bipolar disorder means you get mood swings.
- crablabs, on 11/14/2009, -1/+20My dad is schizo, and I can vouch for the religion part. What kind of church was I forced to go to, 3 times a week, growing up? Pentecostal. Yes, my dad believes that god talks to him. He had a breakdown/flip out/tried stabbing me/whatnot a few years ago, which was when we all found out about his problem. He is still convinced that god is talking to him, even though he is on medications and knows he is schizo.
And, yes, I firmly believe this is how religion started, which is why I no longer have any type of faith in any higher power anymore...so I guess not all bad came out of it. Life sure is a lot less stressful when you finally realize there isn't an invisible man watching you jack off. - gratephul, on 11/14/2009, -2/+21What a ***** article. Half a page? I expected much more based on the title.
- stonebear, on 11/14/2009, -2/+19Because we'd rather call those people priests and psychics.
- captininsanity, on 11/14/2009, -0/+16People who have mental abnormalities that make them more happy probably wouldn't want to see a doctor about it...
- Shreder1, on 11/14/2009, -4/+18That's where I saw the Leprechaun. He tells me to burn things!
- joejitsu, on 11/14/2009, -1/+13LSD actually shows some promise in helping people that suffer from schizophrenia.
- m3arvk, on 11/14/2009, -0/+12It's British for "kill myself".
From the movie Trainspotting:
"It seems, however, I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the living dead. But not me. I'm negative. It's official. And once the pain goes away, that's when the real battle starts. Depression, boredom . . . You feel so ***** low, you want to ***** top yourself." - hbyrne, on 11/14/2009, -0/+11It can be a terribly debilitating illness, and takes a toll on both the individual and their family.
- AaronPDX, on 11/14/2009, -3/+14Anyone interested in life with schizophrenia should check out this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Schizophrenic- ...
It's incredibly personal and touching, written by someone who suffered major paranoid schizophrenia for most of their life growing up. It's amazingly easy to put yourself in her shoes. It's a pretty easy read - the second half the book is notes from her psychoanalyst, which if you're a real psych student means "Freudian psychologist", also interchangable with "Not A Real Psychologist"... so take the second half with a grain of salt. But the first half is just a first person accounting of growing up with it, and it's incredible. - magily11, on 11/14/2009, -0/+10I wish there wasn't such a negative stigma around mental illness. I have panic disorder (I'm not saying it was anywhere near as bad as schizophrenia) and it got out that I was getting therapy, and I was avoided like the plague, as though I were a leper or something.
- Aquakitty, on 11/14/2009, -0/+10My Mom also has schizophrenia, albeit a "relatively" mild case. She controls it well now with Clozapine. Her pills stopped working at one point when I was around 13, was a very bad experience to have your Mom go crazy on you. I grew up worrying that I would get it which contributed to my ending up with an anxiety disorder! Ain't the brain grand?
- katana0182, on 11/14/2009, -0/+10ControversedDig: Antipsychotic drugs - probably the single set of medications with the absolutely worst bunch of side effects known to man - do that to the person who takes them - often making them morbidly obese. The most powerful and only extremely effective antipsychotic (clozapine) lists "death" as a side effect, and death does happen to those who take it, occasionally. Yet clozapine is still prescribed, and the other antipsychotics are still used, because even having to tolerate snideness about "the harpoons" and "manning them" is a small price to pay for the victim of this horrific illness regaining some semblance of sanity and dignity and ability to pursue happiness without being terrorized by their mind running on a rampage.
Though the schizophrenic is the victim who's hit the hardest and suffers the most, everyone around them who cares about them is also a victim of schizophrenia as well. One does not recover from schizophrenia or being a loved one of a person so stricken, one survives schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is the neurological equivalent of a weapons of mass destruction. It destroys people, destroys families, destroys lives, destroys communities, destroys health, destroys careers, destroys childhoods, destroys marriages, destroys relationships, destroys happiness, destroys everything and everyone around it.
I would suggest you STFU, lest karmic justice provide you with the experience to walk a mile in the shoes of another who's survived schizophrenia as a direct victim or as collateral damage (a.k.a. a family member or lover). Trust me: you don't want to. - ghuytro, on 11/14/2009, -1/+10They did invent our language so they must be heavily engaged in constant research - along with most English speaking teens and the posters on 4chan - at advancing the language with new and initially indecipherable words and word meanings
- taibo, on 11/14/2009, -1/+9First time I read that, I thought she had farted for a week.
- satanherself, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8There is a lot more to schizophrenia than just hearing voices.
- ftc08, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8I get pissed off whenever I hear anybody get that wrong. My health teacher (I refuse to call her professor... for this reason) spent an entire day talking about schizophrenia and saying it was when people have multiple personalities.
She kicked me out when I told her she was wrong, then sent her a link to the DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia. She's been ignoring me since. - mikebritton, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8Still, hearing voices of any kind -- or any unexplained phenomena -- would be a red flag. Why don't people ever report hearing calming, soothing, pleasant voices? Is it a fixed reality of schizophrenia that voices are malevolent? Is understanding why this is the case a factor in curing the disease?
- Expl0siv0, on 11/14/2009, -2/+9dugg up for bashing Freudian psychology.
- matadata, on 11/14/2009, -1/+8Your joke was tasteless
Schizophrenia is not
Multiple persons - satchthegreat, on 11/14/2009, -1/+8what the hell is "top myself?"
- spworm, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7also dugg for bashing Freudian psychology.
- spworm, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7The trick is to sleep till 12.
I find deciding to eat is an easier choice to make if you're hungry. - jeremymccurdy, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7Being a person with PTSD(among other things) and growing up in family full of mental illness and the horrid things that come from it, I can sympathize with what you must have gone through. I hope life is going well for you now!
- inactive, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7Sounds like she needs a counselor of her own...
- thorny904, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6Actually much of my life has been a disaster, but I think I'm finally coming out of it at age 54.
- mikebritton, on 11/14/2009, -1/+7You're a kid -- this opinion is very juvenile.
- waj5001, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6Because why fix what isn't broken; of those who hear calming voices, some would view that they are better off than people who dont hear any voices at all.
I'll admit that I hear things sometimes, I brush them off as an audible conscience of varying voices though, so it doesn't bother me - and I have enough sense to discern what "They" say as being ridiculous or if they actually have a truthful point. For example, I get the urge in my forum-style class of 300 to get out of my chair screaming and running for the exit cause I feel a tension that isn't necessarily there, but I don't because I've been conditioned NOT to do things like that, even though I really NEED to get out of the room, as if there is some nonexistent logic behind this urge.
Call me crazy, but I have a hunch that "borderline" schizophrenics are everywhere. - darkfate, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5I remember reading a book called The Quiet Room in high school psychology.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446671339/
The women in the book seems to have the same type of Satanic voices in her head telling her to do things. Really interesting read since it's written by the person themselves. - tumatakuru, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5roses are red
violets are blue
some poems rhyme
but not haiku - shinepdx, on 11/14/2009, -1/+6you mean 3?
- snareguy17, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5Albeit a short article, it's definitely worth a read.
- oSallyo, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5It was an article in an Australian newspaper, definitely not a tiny island, lol.
- dojocasino, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5You don't need to have schizophrenia to feel like that in the mornings.
- Expl0siv0, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5I haven't heard that before either but I'm gathering it means killing yourself.
- THELEECH, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4to kill yourself
- lennynumberone, on 11/14/2009, -1/+5If I didn't know someone who suffered with Schizophrenia, I would have thought what you wrote really funny, but it's horrible, and I get tearful thinking of them and their family life struggles every day just by writing about it.
I didn't dig you down, because I think you meant it in all goodness and fun, and we all need to laugh now and then anyway. - orangefly, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4roses are red, violets are blue,
some poems rhyme, this one doesn't - jeremymccurdy, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4People who've never dealt with mental illnesses seem to have a hard time conceptualizing them. This is a sad fact that I've seen time and time again throughout my life. The only thing you can really do is try to educate people when you come across ignorance, if that doesn't work, just cut those people from your life if you can, they aren't worth knowing if they make you feel terrible.
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