Do I Have Schizophrenia? Help Please! Posted: 01-11-06 12:30pm
I'm going to try to tell you guys in
detail how i'm feeling, i'm very scared.
About two days ago I have had this...I
don't know exactly how to say this...Heavy
weight on me...An extremely negative
feeling. The negative feeling is sort of
like...Fear. I'm sorry if i'm not making
any sense...But this is how I feel.
I'm 17 years old, i'm homeschooled and in
my senior year. Both my parents work
full time and that leaves me home by
myself all day to do my schoolwork, etc.
I've been doing pretty good with being by
myself for the two and a half months now
that my parents have both been working
full time...But all of a sudden about two
or three days ago I have had a fear of
being alone...An extreme fear. And I
feel very dizzy and I cry several times a
day because i'm so scared. I've been
telling myself that maybe i'm going crazy
or something because this feeling is so
overwhelming I don't feel like I have any
control over myself. It's become so bad
that I pretty much convinced myself that I
might have schizophrenia.
I've had a lot of stress in my life these
past few months. My brother, who i'm
very close to was deployed to iraq. My
boyfriend broke up with me before he was
deployed to iraq. I'm getting ready for
college and still don't know what my
future plans for a career are. I've been
very stressed out these past few
months...But all of a sudden, the stress
sort of stopped and this feeling of being
afraid took over.
I don't see any visions or hear voices or
anything...Although I know that's what
schizophrenics experience and i'm sort
looking out for things now that I think
i'm schizophrenic. Maybe i'm just a
hypochondriac? I don't know...All I know
is i'm very afraid and i'm afraid to be by
myself.
Last year around this time actually,
something sort of similar happened to me.
I was down in north carolina at a
military base and all of a sudden I got
really dizzy and I fealt like I was in a
dream and I could control what I said or
did...But I fealt like I couldn't. The
feeling let up when I left north carolina
to come back home and never happened
again. Now though, the feeling I have
feels similar. I'm dizzy, I sort of feel
like i'm in a dream...But not as bad as
last year...But I have this feeling of
fear that's so bad.
I think the feeling I have started two or
three days ago after I wrote a diary entry
in my journal about how stressed I am and
how I feel depressed...After that, i've
had a feeling of being afraid.
Sorry if i'm going on and on about..But
i'm very scared and I don't know what to
do. Schizophrenia doesn't run in my
family, but nervous breakdowns are pretty
common among my relatives. Could anyone
help me...Maybe tell me what might be
going on with me?
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firefly09
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 45 Location: UK
Posted: 01-12-06 11:16am
Go see you doctor, tell him your symptoms
and ask for an eeg. What your
experiencing could be a number of things,
not just schizophrenia, try not to worry,
it could be something or nothing.
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morningstarrr
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 2
Posted: 01-19-06 18:21pm
firefly09
wrote:
go see you doctor, tell him
your symptoms and ask for an eeg. What
your experiencing could be a number of
things, not just schizophrenia, try not to
worry, it could be something or
nothing.
an eeg cant even detect schizophrenia.
All it does is basically tell you if you
have seizure disorders, brain tumors, and
blood clots. And that has nothing to do
with her.
thats what I have. And it seems like that
to me. It doesnt sound like schizoprenia
at all.
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Jolie_3110
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1755 Location: Essex, England
Posted: 01-19-06 18:27pm
I agree with morning starr it sounds like
you could be experiencing panic attacks.
Have you tried talking about this to your
family it may help, if not, get yourself
to a doctor there you can be better
diagnosed. Good luck. Let me know what
happens.
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firefly09
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 45 Location: UK
Posted: 01-20-06 04:26am
There are certain seizure disorders such
as partial seizures that can cause auras.
During these auras the person will feel a
sense of fear or presence on their back
............... That is why I suggested
it.........But just speak to you dr
