What is your diagnosis?
I’ve a few diagnoses! My ‘big’ diagnosis is schizophrenia but I’ve also been diagnosed with depression and severe arachnophobia. I’ve been told of possible anxiety disorders but I’ve enough official diagnoses for one person!
What is that?
I always liken schizophrenia to having ‘depression with attitude’. Schizophrenia is usually made up of ‘positive’ symptoms and ‘negative’ symptoms. The positive symptoms are things that have been added to a person that shouldn’t be there. These are experiences like hallucinations or delusions. The negative symptoms are things that have been taken away from a person that should be there. These are things like a lack of concentration and motivation, feeling numb and symptoms that are very like depression. That’s why I liken schizophrenia to ‘depression with attitude’!
I’ve a few diagnoses! My ‘big’ diagnosis is schizophrenia but I’ve also been diagnosed with depression and severe arachnophobia. I’ve been told of possible anxiety disorders but I’ve enough official diagnoses for one person!
What is that?
I always liken schizophrenia to having ‘depression with attitude’. Schizophrenia is usually made up of ‘positive’ symptoms and ‘negative’ symptoms. The positive symptoms are things that have been added to a person that shouldn’t be there. These are experiences like hallucinations or delusions. The negative symptoms are things that have been taken away from a person that should be there. These are things like a lack of concentration and motivation, feeling numb and symptoms that are very like depression. That’s why I liken schizophrenia to ‘depression with attitude’!
"The intrusive thoughts would make me ‘see’ myself killing somebody in
my head and make me ‘hear’ them suffering from what I’d done to them"