Could I Have Schizophrenia?

Most likely you won't turn schizophrenic, believet his.
I got dp/dr cannabis induced 2months ago, it was 24/7, I got obsessed with me having schizophrenia too, and my dad was diagnosed schizophrenic, so imagine how frighten I am.
What worked for me was diversion, now i'm starting to get better...
When you think about it all the time it stays, if you don't think about it you'll eventually let the feeling go.
It's like when your angry, if you just think "omg I hate this so bad" you'll feel that way 'til you start concentrating on different things...

Hope it works=)

I hope you are right..

I do notice that the more I think about it the more I suffer from dr/dp.

If I am doing something and my mind is totally occupied I feel fine..


Anyone else have any insight?

Thanks!

Angela :lol:

Anybody can get symptoms of schizophrenia. Most of the time, it goes away. You can make it close in getting symptoms if you continue being negative.

Don't worry so much about it. What you need to concentrate on is being positive. For example, should I stop driving my car because I might get into an accident. This is what you are doing, looking at things negatively. Why are you doing that? Life is short. Enjoy it.

Anyone else have any thoughts?


Thanks
-angela 8)

Archive the bad though and put it into the trash can. Then delete it with a thought. Never to touch the topic again.

U must be strong by your own thought. This mental thing is all about your self-control.

Hey countrygal

i'd had dr/dp for more than a year in the past, also induced by cannabis. Nowadays, I don't even have a trace of it left, but i'm still occasionally prone to anxiety attacks and even brief moments of mild dr/dp.

I'm 23, and as far as I can tell i'm not a schizophrenic (or maybe i'm too busy to notice with my college senior year workload, lol jk)

feel free to discuss your symptoms here, if that will make you feel more "real" =)

and yes, you have to stop to constantly think about it and notice it.

I have never done any drugs, not even weed.. So.. Just to let you all know.



-angela

Cannabis is not the cause of dp/dr, however it trigger it for people who is prone to develope it anyway.

The only sad part is that anyone working in mentalhealth proffesionally, if you come to them like "i got 24/7 dp/dr, it all started last time I smoked" they go all like "dont do drugs".
I think everyone who have experienced hardcore dp/dr believed at somepoint they were goin crazy ( schizophrenic ), cus the symptoms are a lot alike

So, should I not worry about schizophrenia?

You shouldn't worry. If you want more replies, post it in this site. Psychforums.Com

I can't tell you whether or not you should worry about it, but you definitely must seek meedical attention regarding this condition. They are mental disorders (i.E. Not physical), and have to be cured with medication. Your dr/dp most probably won't go away on its own.

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Well there is no medication developed that fix dp/dr, so getting hooked on valium or whatever would really be a stepbackwards.

Hi,
i am 26 and I suffer from anxiety and dp. I hate feeling like this. I have paranoid thoughts sometimes too though. Like I think that I am going crazy if I can't find someone I went to a store with or what if I leave my daughter in her sunday school class and she isn' there when I go back to get her?! It is really bothering me because I know these thoughts and feelings are completely irrational, but they are like an obsession for me. I am seeing a counselor and she says I am not schizophrenic, but I am still afraid I am! I have never used drugs or anything. I am really scared.
I have these thoughts more when I am alone. If I am at work or busy, I am fine too. I have also become very obsessed with reading about mental disorders on the internet. My counselor told me to stop, but it is hard!

Hey I need someones help. When I was in eight grade I smoked marijuana for the first time and till this day I carry that feeling around with me that I got. Im 21 now and that feeling I got was almost like being disembodied from myself. Like I was there but I wasn't, its almost as if if felt like there were somebody sitting in the room with you even though there definitely wasn't. I did smoke a few times after the first time, but I do not smoke anymore because of what I feel it did to me. As I sit here and type this I feel as if im almost dissociated from myself, like I am in complete control of everything I do, but I just dont feel like im doing it for myself. This was so hard for me to describe to a psychiatrist once. I really just feel as if im watching myself from another state, just completely disembodied. I never get depressed but I also am occasionally obessive. More my thoughts then them being physical. Like I constantly think I have schizeprenia bc of the feeling I got from what I think is smoking. So then I think im going crazy and then I get anxious, its like a little cycle. In the back of my mind I feel like theres another personality forming itself, and one day im just going to lose it. And I know people say just dont think about it, but I mean theres only so many hours you in the day u can keep busy your always going to have time to think about things. Someone please help me with that first feeling and tell me if you think I have signs of schizeprenia.

Hey I got a question.. What is dp/dr? And about the weed smoking thing,i used to have panic and anxiety attacks all the time (even to this day)and I had been having them way before I started smoking weed.I remember being a young boy and sitting in my room at night trying to go to bed and start feeling like I couldnt breath because there was no light in my room and it felt like everything was right up on me.Im not saying that weed doesnt induce it because as many times as it hasnt happened to me while smoking,it has happened. The latest time I can remember it happening while I was smoking was when I was with my friends and I started feeling like I couldnt breath(which is normal when I panic on weed)and I must have been acting weird or saying weird things cause my friends kept lookin at me and sayin that I was crazy and stuff like that.Then I started getting this overwelming feeling take over my body.I remember thinking to myself that if I had to go on in life feeling this way that I would rather kill myself because it felt so terrible.I dont remember all I was saying but I kept feeling like I should be institutionalized.I got the shakes real bad I couldnt even role up another joint lol.But like all my other attacks I just waited it out till I was calm again.

Its disgusting and just think what your inners smell like,
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh grose ,half the people in the world are paranoid about something,its how u deal with things,and it aint smoking weeds.Pack it in.Smoking is for losers.

Your anxiety will not turn into somthing worse, panic disorders are only a type of anxiety and that is it, no one has gone crazy from this. The reason why you feel like this is because of your amygdama in your brain, your conscious mind is telling you that your ok and its just anxiety, but your unconscious mind is putting these horrible thoughts into your mind. You need to check out the linden methed, www.Lindenmethed.Com and it will explain everything( go to the video of the amygdama)... You might even want to buy the program...