I don’t believe that people with sz are brainwashed or conditioned to be crazy. You get a lot of really crazy people out there. A person with sz do not deserve the label “crazy” since it is caused by factors out of our control such as dopamine levels and other reasons. The actions done by sz people as a result of halucinations, paranoia and delusions are labeled as crazy but should not be imo. It should be called something else.
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Yea, there’s defos a difference between mentally ill and mentally disturbed (the latter being used to describe people who have the “crazies.”)
Unfortunately, the media (and a lot of people, as a result) do not understand the two terms are not interchangeable.
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sz can be a catch all term for bad mental illness
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I like your explanation on the subject. Well said! @Schztuna
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Nobody is formally calling it crazy anymore. Does the news say the person went crazy? Maybe when the interview the man on the street he says it. You’re not going to stop opinions that people with sz are crazy. Crazy can be used to describe the best and coolest thing too.
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Once my nurse from psykiatri department told me that sometimes I stigmatise myself. So I am trying to measure my words when I talk about myself as a me. Like the whole me. I have as well to be aware of whom I am talking with. I have/had a bed tendency to over share and resulting I got rejected or gosted.
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Nobody can tell I have it unless I tell them. A lot of us are like this, many more than your average person would expect.
I do get annoyed when people use “schizophrenic” or “schizo” jokingly to refer to being scatterbrained or having multiple personalities in social media or whatever. Very inaccurate usage.
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When i tell someone I have schizophrenia they say no you dont.. then they say bi polar yeah. One of my friends who said im not schizophrenic came and seen me mentally ill in the psych ward then hes like ya you have schizophrenia
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It was kind of weird the other day. The maintenance guy was fixing the electrical outlet in my studio and he mentioned that a guy down the hall in another studio went crazy a few days before and had to be taken to the psyche ward. It was just weird because he had no idea I had a mental illness. I should be used to it, I act and sound normal but it was a little weird getting treated so normal and him talking about how crazy another person was.
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That has happened to me before. My next door neighbor talks about crazy people in the town not knowing at that time im fresh out the psych hospital.
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In 2010 I was getting on the greyhound bus in calgary and this punk teenager is like I hope some schizo isent gonna cut my head off when we are driving in greyhound.. I gave him a dirty look and when the bus was driving he always kept looking at the back of the bus where I was sitting
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I rode greyhound /coaches too much in my life. I rode from toronto to calgary once when psychotic
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yea i think theres a lot more diseases of the mind/personality than people realize. SZ is just one, but when people have personality disorders or are just straight up demented sometimes we all get lumped together. For example a karen imo is just someone who was never told “no” as a child and was spoiled and so has a sense of entitlement. Yet often times people will call them “crazy” lol btw no shade to people with personality disorders, i wasn’t insulting anyone just saying mental problems often get oversimplified into one group.
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