http://answers.psychcentral.com Questions and advice about relationships, sex, couples, mental health, depression, anxiety, and other issues. Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:28:20 CST en http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-have-schizophrenia-3/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-have-schizophrenia-3/ Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:28:20 CST http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-have-schizophrenia-3/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/schizophrenia-or---1/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/schizophrenia-or---1/ Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:24:48 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/schizophrenia-or---1/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/what-happens-when-your-life-falls-apart/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/what-happens-when-your-life-falls-apart/ Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:17:58 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/what-happens-when-your-life-falls-apart/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/how-to-tell-your-parents-youre-crazy-2/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/how-to-tell-your-parents-youre-crazy-2/ Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:24:43 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/how-to-tell-your-parents-youre-crazy-2/ So since I was 11 (nearly 14 now) I suffered depression and self-harmed. I always had suicidal thoughts and firmly believed no one cared. I tried to stop self-harming by being creative and wrote stories. For some reason characters from my books stuck in my head. I found myself having conversations with them and at the time I thought it was perfectly sane. I didn't evn know schizophrenia existed! I would say for about three years was how long I heard these voices, recently I realised that it's not exactly normal. I still talk to them though, it's like an off/on switch. I tell th

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/am-i-turning-schizophrenic/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/am-i-turning-schizophrenic/ Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:55:50 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/am-i-turning-schizophrenic/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-might-be-schizophrenic--/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-might-be-schizophrenic--/ Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:53:21 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-might-be-schizophrenic--/  I currently live with my dad and step mom, and although they aren't the best parents, they're better than the alternative. 
About two years ago, I was given a psychiatric evaluation and it came back with a result of major depression.
For a while I believed I was misdiagnosed and thought it was bipolar. I had depressive episodes as well as times that I can only describe as the way a person would act if someone put a gun to their head and told them "be happy or

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-with-my-brother/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-with-my-brother/ Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:52:57 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-with-my-brother/ he was on an antidepressent and a sleeping pill and he quit taking them after the first day of the hallucination...

he is now at the va hospital on the 6th floor where the mental patients go..

im scared that he wont get back to normal....

any help/experience with this??

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1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/where-did-she-go/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/where-did-she-go/ Tue, 05 Jun 2012 02:22:35 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/where-did-she-go/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/is-this-schizo/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/is-this-schizo/ Mon, 21 May 2012 19:02:37 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/is-this-schizo/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-am-told-i-am-schizophrenic-/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-am-told-i-am-schizophrenic-/ Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:44 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-am-told-i-am-schizophrenic-/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-i-think-im-ill-1/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-i-think-im-ill-1/ Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:07:14 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-i-think-im-ill-1/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/-im-i-going-insane/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/-im-i-going-insane/ Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:32:36 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/-im-i-going-insane/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/please-can-some-one-give-me-some-advise-im-not-sure-if-i-have-schizophrenia-im-comfused/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/please-can-some-one-give-me-some-advise-im-not-sure-if-i-have-schizophrenia-im-comfused/ Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:25:58 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/please-can-some-one-give-me-some-advise-im-not-sure-if-i-have-schizophrenia-im-comfused/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-have-schizophrenia-but-if-its-really-bad-what-will-happen-to-me-im-really-scared/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-have-schizophrenia-but-if-its-really-bad-what-will-happen-to-me-im-really-scared/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:02:28 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/i-think-i-have-schizophrenia-but-if-its-really-bad-what-will-happen-to-me-im-really-scared/ >i'm only 14.
>iv'e had nightmares for around half a year and now there so bad i'm afraid of sleeping.
>iv'e self-harmed and stuff
>i'm always so sad and depressed even if i'm laughing
>i see and hear things and that scares me so much that i just want to scream and make it go away. and i saw a little girl who looked like me when i was around 6. she laughs at me and tells me to do what she wants or she'll hurt me
>i sometimes like switch of inside and start doing horrible things like maki

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-me-please-9/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-me-please-9/ Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:32:56 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/help-me-please-9/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/does-this-sound-like-schizotypal-personality-disorder/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/does-this-sound-like-schizotypal-personality-disorder/ Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:11:37 CDT http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/does-this-sound-like-schizotypal-personality-disorder/
Okay anways

I understand the majority here arent professionals and even if they were it'd be probably impossible to diangose me online

I just want to know if my ideas are on track here

I found this schizotypal assesment test, basicallly its a guide for psyciatrists to ask to help determine if someone is has SPD or not.

I filled it out here are my responses, give me your opinons please?


Have you ever found that people around you -- who seem to be talking in general -- are actu

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I suppose I'll begin with some history about myself, whether or not the information is relevant or useful : I grew up without a father. I have always been a sickly person. Throughout my childhood I suffered from seizures and anemia. I was also a very shy and nervous child... I played well with my siblings at home, but when it came time to socialize with other children at school I was very closed-mouthed, self-conscious and socially awkward. These social troubles have continued to this day... and intensified. As of right now I socialize with NO ONE, except for my family, my girlfr

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/was-i-about-to-switch-personalities-do-i-have-did/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/was-i-about-to-switch-personalities-do-i-have-did/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:57:55 CST http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/was-i-about-to-switch-personalities-do-i-have-did/
Over the past few days I have had this sensation of appraoching doom. I truly believed I would die within a few months. I have also had the feeling of someone else being 'with me' as in sharing my body. I have 6 people in my mind who will talk to me and such and sometimes even dictate my mood, however this new person I don't know anything about, only that it is a 'her'. I was telling my sister about this feeling, (it isn't u

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/the-use-of-an-iud-when-already-on-abilifyadderall-seroquel-and-zonegran/ http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/the-use-of-an-iud-when-already-on-abilifyadderall-seroquel-and-zonegran/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:16:09 CST http://answers.psychcentral.com/Schizophrenia/the-use-of-an-iud-when-already-on-abilifyadderall-seroquel-and-zonegran/
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