The Voices!

[Premmy]

I have been thinking about it and I believe that I could
live with being crazy (in fact sometimes I think I am)
I have an okay knowledge of the sypmtoms of Schizophrenia,
and I think I could suspend disbelief when confronted
with the obvious "I must be crazy" when I start hearing voices,
plus, I could get a freind to veriy my auditory or visual
hallucination, what say you? how do you think
you would deal with insanity?

[bredofchaos]

I don't think you can technically deal with insanity....wouldn't that just make you sane?

[Premmy]

what I mean is you wouldn't turn into a crazy homelss person
you'd hear the voices, see whatever but you would'nt let it rule you

[Deathosaurus Wrecks]

well, a big part of Schizophrenia is the inability to tell whats real or not. so these people who hear voices arn't able to discern between thier halucinations (both visual and audio) and things that are really happening. another symptom is paranoia, so if you had a freind there to verify things, you probably wouln't trust thier judgement.

[Premmy]

yeah thats true, I guess it was just the "scary movie"

thign when I said that.

[Baily]

I'm schizophrenic.

Well, when I don't get enough sleep, I am. They say that's what really makes schizos go crazy, not enough sleep, their minds don't get enough rest, they think too much, and stuff. I've had a haluccination or two in my time. I can actually create temporary worlds with my mind. (inadvertently, mind you) I just get snapped back to the "real world." I sometimes go around touching people to make sure they're real, but sometimes even that isn't enough. I think, "My mind could be tricking itself into thinking my hand is touching someone, and it's sending the stimuli to my hand" But then I think, "Get real, moron. You're thinking too much." So I think about other things, such as things in the tangible world. Well, not that, but things like how people are doing, and things like that. That's why I used to do so many drugs, to keep me from thinking. I quit smoking and stuff and now I don't have anything to deaden my mind. But oh well. I'm starting to learn how to "deal" with it. Even if things aren't real, and this is all a figment of my imagination, who cares? I think it's real, so it is, y'know?

[RaiRai]

I guess that depends. There are different levels of insanity, and it also depends on what classes as being insane.

I often think myself a little crazy when I go through depressed stages as I often zone out and then awake wondering what on earth I had just been doing. Not really like blackouts, but I'm unable to stop myself doing whatever it is I am doing. Like watching bubbles in my glass of limeade, I sat for ages and then realised what I was doing and felt rather stupid. Or yesterday while talking to someone, I just stood there and it wasn't until she shook me that I realised I was stood there slightly stunned, having just been intent on listening to the buzz of the air conditioning machine above my head. Just little things which trigger a reaction of my senses and keep me trapped until I find a way to pull out. That, I believe, makes me insane - or at least to myself.

I wouldn't change it for the world, though. It makes me realise how human I am.

If I did become really out of my head, unlike myself and possibly a threat to myself or other people - I'd hope that someone had the sense to put me in a straightjacket and lock me up.

[Premmy]

That happens to me that's how they diagnosed me With ADD
the overthinking and the "spacing out" are signs of disorganized thoughts
and something else I forgot