My uncle is a schizophrenic and he always says he thinks his food is leaving him some sort of hidden message, a group of savages are out to get him, etc.
Anyways I wanted to know what do the voices usually tell them. Does it sound like one person or a few people? Can you get schizophrenia later on in life from stress, anger, a traumatic experience or stuff like that?
Sorry for all the questions. If you suffered from schizophrenia I would love to hear your stories.
Thanks in advance
Schizophrenia could be caused by genes (hereditary), prenatal development (prenatal or birth trauma), effects of home environment, and cultural influences.
I also would like to know what the voices say. I know some have claimed it was the voice of god telling them to murder…..
One of my friends is schizophrenic and he says that he hears voices that seem to be after him. During this one time in a church, he viewed the church goers and priest as demons and he flipped the bird to everyone in the middle of a Mass.
I watched a movie about schizophrenia to study his condition. I forgot the name but I can assure you that his situation is better represented by the Max Payne movie.
As for getting it later in life, the movie I saw said that it could manifest until your mid-20’s.
I don’t think there is a general guideline. Just that there are voices… well, you know what I mean.
My uncle is a clinical schizophrenic as well, but he hears voices down water pipes and voices simply in his head tell him that he is the next messiah; he is also utterly convinced his entire marriage had been a scam and that there was no marriage at all (I was there when he got married, mind you) and that his "so-called" wife had slipped him drugs throughout it to keep him thinking he was mostly disabled so that she could cash in on the disability checks…
So I think that the way schizophrenia comes up in those people diagnosed, depends on how they deal with paranoid ideas. It is most likely entirely different from one person to another. Obviously I have no idea myself because I’m not schizophrenic.
I also don’t believe there has been much proof that you could develop schizophrenia in later life due to stress, trauma or anger. There have been studies towards schizophrenia and drug abuse and there is proof that cocaine and schizophrenia are connected. Also that cannabis and schizophrenia are connected. But even here, psychiatrists ask the question whether the drug causes the illness, or people with a latent tendency for this illness are attracted by the drug to surface their illness.
Experiments with mice does show that drug abuse (cocaine or cannabis) at a very young age (before 15 in our case) can cause permanent damage and does actually cause mental diseases like for example schizophrenia. Anyone who uses these drugs after the age of 15 is shown to have no effect from the drug. Hence the question; does the drug cause the illness or does the illness cause the drug?
I stumbled across a video before that simulates what it is like. Below is a article with the same video. Seems terrifying.
well i kno a few ppl who suffered from this
and they said that its kinda sounds like ur own voice, but it really depends on the person
its almost like the voice is u but not really
and its telling u to do something
like how u think but it seems like its coming from some where else
i do not have the disorder but i know someone who did and like you i was curious and i asked. his voice was the voice of a different him. he had another personality in his head that told him what to do in order to be cool like him. it came from being made fun of in school and his despersate attempts to be cool. so his mind made up a personality that was his idea of cool. he heard anything from change your hair to push that kid. it was only one person and it was his own voice. his was from a lot of anxiety, stress and traumatic experiences and a young child e.g. the most crutial developemental years.
There was a lady in my neighborhood with that kind of problem, but I’d move out and bought a house at the edge of the city 12 years ago. All I’ve seen so far was, that her hair is all messed up. I saw her a couple of times walking down the street and all of a sudden she start talking and sit down in the middle of the side walk. She don’t seem to care even if there’s a lot of people out there.
i would ask my cousin who has schizophrenia but he is very uncomfortable about talking about it =( its a part of his past he doesn’t want to remember. i can see why. it made him do bad things.
the voices tell them exactly what they want to hear at the moment. it can scare them to death, but if your mad at someone the voices might of said "get rid of her, do something. your such a wimp for dealing with that" my cousin once slapped me in the face because he was mad at what i told him. his schizophrenia got so bad, that he said he actually saw me morph into a DEMON! and this was before he was treated on. the cops had to come take him away. he made me a bracelet to say he was sorry but i forgave him because even though i dont know what it feels like to have schizophrenia, i do know it is something that can’t go away just when you want it to. schizophrenics hear different things. it can be their own voice, another side of them, voices of dead people, whispers, or a crowd where they cant reconize the voice. sometimes the voice becomes a friend of theres. they talk to them & they feel like they’re walking next to them.
Punkcheeri, what you said is multiple personality disorder
There are 3 types of Schizophrenia: Catatonic, Paranoid, and Undifferentiated. Your uncle probably has Paranoid Schizophrenia. People with paranoid schizophrenia have strong feelings of suspiciousness and persecution. Chances are the voices or hallucinations are telling him that something or someone is after him. Also schizophrenia appears in late adolescence or early adulthood and almost never earlier. About 1% of the population is affected any given year and 1/3 gets better and the remaining 2/3s tend to get worse in some way.
it says "GOT MILK?"
That’s like asking "What kind of thoughts do depressed people have when they’re sad?"
Everyone is unique, so the voices/messages would be very unique, also.
I’m not sure if what I have is schizophrenia or not – my diagnosis has been put on hold.
I do hear voices, but they don’t tell me to do anything.
It’s sort of creepy, though.
Sunday I could have sworn that I heard someone talking in the basement. It was a man’s voice, and it was low and sounded…furtive. There was no one else in the house with me, and I was looking desperately for a source (like the TV or radio or something). I didn’t find a source, and I have this really intense phobia of someone breaking into the house. I was scared to death.
I wasn’t sure if I should find a weapon and go down into the basement just to be sure, or if I should just stay where I was and wait, and another part of me wondered if I was "just hearing voices again".
If it’s nothing like that, then I hear people calling my name or beckoning me to come help them fix something or choose something for them.
it is caused by genes
schizo people can hear, smell, touch, see invisible people. it maybe a friend or foe, a close friend or a stranger.she or he may recover and may develop again after that. try to listen and understand them like seeing someone in the mirror when there is no one beside you. then tell them there is no one outside the mirror but becoz of schizo.be their best friend, understand their difficulty, be in their shoes, win their heart and confidence, then teach them slowly but surely that there is voice of a friend or foe, the touch, smell and vision does not exist,but it does becoz of schizo. tell them to come back to the real world coz we need and love them.