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Possible Schizophrenia?

As my summer vacation comes to a close, many things are becoming unclear… Let me start from the top:

I began preschool as normal as any of the other children, not much to it other than that. But when I began 1st grade, things began to change. I started just a little “shy” but this quickly became a very antisocial attitude and eventually a slight hate. I didn’t take part in activities, attempt to make friends, or any of the general things. I had often been quite abnormal now that I think of it, thinking strange things and doing strange things. That continued. I was picked on, spat on, given little respect even by some of the teachers. I had felt segregated from being introduced into probably a 65%-75% Hispanic population at my school with few other Caucasians to associate with. This molded into a slight racism but I have long since grown into a heightened sense of logic.
This was until I began 5th grade, and was given another chance. Although I was of course a little slow (leaving elementary school with few friends)to understanding how the whole social structure worked. I didn’t get into much trouble, but that slight hate I had spoken of earlier worsened a bit into a kind of misanthrope viewing, but with logic. I had taken interest into explosives and weapons of all sorts, this pretty much continued.
Middle school I was completely in the shadows if you will, focusing on only doing what I was told and getting home. Normally I would have spent 7th and 8th that way, but in 8th grade I decided to try out an alternative school, no primary reason. I didn’t like it too much but stress levels were very low and I actually made some very good friends.
After 8th grade at the alternative school, when I began summer, I could tell it was going to be slow and painful. It was otherwise for the most part but extremely boring.
About half way through the summer, a number of things had happened. My logic, turned into philosophy. my philosophy to extreme confusion to depression to illogical blurs of thoughts. While this was happening, I gained a keen interest in the mind. I looked into mental illnesses, schizophrenia catching my eye. Now before I go any further, previous years were extremely stressful, probably self inflicted from excessive unnecessary thought. Even to a point of a manic-need to become insane. This would phase in and out.
Back to schizophrenia, as I continued to research it on the web, I underwent a kind of slow motion, oh **** moment over a long term period. I had always been a hypochondriac, but I realized how many signs and symptoms of schizophrenia I had shown through my life. I realized how I could easily get rid of this, but how much it was in my grasp.
I still do not understand whether my manic-need to obtain schizophrenia is a direct cause or simply a cause of my irrational thinking. Either way, the biggest part of it is the confusion, the extreme confusion over every little thing. To a debilitating extent. I have been relapsing sense, becoming paranoid, undergoing mainly auditory but visual hallucinations as well, very low motivation levels, low interest, etc. I noticed how classical and simply music in general helped calm and sooth me, but that has gone. And although a key part of schizophrenia is oblivion and I obviously lack that, I know for a fact it is imminent.
I believe the reason no one has noticed any of this is because I have always bottled my emotions and actions. I act normal, calm as can be around any other person besides my self, but when alone I become very emotional and my symptoms begin to show. I am beginning to slightly show some symptoms to friends and family on occasion and though they seem slightly abnormal, they cause generally no concern.
Now, my paranoia ensures this, I think to myself that others can not know of what is happening to me or they will retaliate in some harmful way (of course, much more in depth but I am not going to waste your time). I am fairly calm right now, and it is early which is probably why I am allowing myself to write this. To elaborate, my symptoms show the most as it gets later, but these are beginning to show earlier, as each day goes by.
Now looking a bit into the future, I know for a fact during high school and probably around half way through I will indefinitely require psychiatry for this. I can already tell that relapse rates will be through the roof.
This is the hard part to write: I met a girl at the alternative school, she is difficult to explain but she has undergone unimaginable emotional and mental issues during her life. She is possibly my best friend and I have known her the least out of all my friends. I feel I do not need to explain why. She is simply a good person, which is rare especially after all she has gone through, and she is quite pretty. She is not even close to “preppy” or anything of the sort. She is her own category but she is not at all antisocial. She is not in the market for any sort of relationship either.
To get to the point, I am so unimaginably in love with this girl. I would do anything for her. I could go on for hours about how I feel for her, but I can not tell anyone… Especially where I am at with my life I feel she is all that I live for, and how I feel about her is rotting inside me. She is the only thing that can keep me from going insane. The unsure part is I do not know if this emotional outbreak is due to the schizophrenia, or if it is true.
I am optimistic about one thing. If I do go insane, I can point out that the Alternative school is a very low stress environment and is where most of my good friends reside. They will most likely go for this and I will have a chance to tell her how I feel. So in a sense I am depending on going insane, or it may become permanent and depression will sky rocket.

Now that you have been forwarded and viewing that painstakingly long summary of my life with some very personal text (yes you should feel lucky, even I do for having the will to post this) you are still probably wondering the purpose of me posting. I do not necessarily require a diagnosis. I have not spoken to anyone about this and want some simple feedback, suggestions, advisement/advice, etc. I would also appreciate some elaboration or explanation rather than short blunt answers. This is sort of for experimental purposes, advice will be taken into consideration and will be reviewed but I will not go upon it easily, especially due to the schizophrenia.

A few things I would like to note is how under exaggerated this post is. It was, is and will be a lot worse then it is shown. I am not suicidal. I may need to provide a little more emphasis on the depression and how low my motivation is, I can’t convince myself to do anything. Another motive for schizophrenia would be as an escape from this harsh, unpleasant reality with no pay off this far.

Thank you for reading.

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As my summer vacation comes to a close, many things are becoming unclear… Let me start from the top:

I began preschool as normal as any of the other children, not much to it other than that. But when I began 1st grade, things began to change. I started just a little “shy” but this quickly became a very antisocial attitude and eventually a slight hate. I didn’t take part in activities, attempt to make friends, or any of the general things. I had often been quite abnormal now that I think of it, thinking strange things and doing strange things. That continued. I was picked on, spat on, given little respect even by some of the teachers. I had felt segregated from being introduced into probably a 65%-75% Hispanic population at my school with few other Caucasians to associate with. This molded into a slight racism but I have long since grown into a heightened sense of logic.
This was until I began 5th grade, and was given another chance. Although I was of course a little slow (leaving elementary school with few friends)to understanding how the whole social structure worked. I didn’t get into much trouble, but that slight hate I had spoken of earlier worsened a bit into a kind of misanthrope viewing, but with logic. I had taken interest into explosives and weapons of all sorts, this pretty much continued.
Middle school I was completely in the shadows if you will, focusing on only doing what I was told and getting home. Normally I would have spent 7th and 8th that way, but in 8th grade I decided to try out an alternative school, no primary reason. I didn’t like it too much but stress levels were very low and I actually made some very good friends.
After 8th grade at the alternative school, when I began summer, I could tell it was going to be slow and painful. It was otherwise for the most part but extremely boring.
About half way through the summer, a number of things had happened. My logic, turned into philosophy. my philosophy to extreme confusion to depression to illogical blurs of thoughts. While this was happening, I gained a keen interest in the mind. I looked into mental illnesses, schizophrenia catching my eye. Now before I go any further, previous years were extremely stressful, probably self inflicted from excessive unnecessary thought. Even to a point of a manic-need to become insane. This would phase in and out.
Back to schizophrenia, as I continued to research it on the web, I underwent a kind of slow motion, oh **** moment over a long term period. I had always been a hypochondriac, but I realized how many signs and symptoms of schizophrenia I had shown through my life. I realized how I could easily get rid of this, but how much it was in my grasp.
I still do not understand whether my manic-need to obtain schizophrenia is a direct cause or simply a cause of my irrational thinking. Either way, the biggest part of it is the confusion, the extreme confusion over every little thing. To a debilitating extent. I have been relapsing sense, becoming paranoid, undergoing mainly auditory but visual hallucinations as well, very low motivation levels, low interest, etc. I noticed how classical and simply music in general helped calm and sooth me, but that has gone. And although a key part of schizophrenia is oblivion and I obviously lack that, I know for a fact it is imminent.
I believe the reason no one has noticed any of this is because I have always bottled my emotions and actions. I act normal, calm as can be around any other person besides my self, but when alone I become very emotional and my symptoms begin to show. I am beginning to slightly show some symptoms to friends and family on occasion and though they seem slightly abnormal, they cause generally no concern.
Now, my paranoia ensures this, I think to myself that others can not know of what is happening to me or they will retaliate in some harmful way (of course, much more in depth but I am not going to waste your time). I am fairly calm right now, and it is early which is probably why I am allowing myself to write this. To elaborate, my symptoms show the most as it gets later, but these are beginning to show earlier, as each day goes by.
Now looking a bit into the future, I know for a fact during high school and probably around half way through I will indefinitely require psychiatry for this. I can already tell that relapse rates will be through the roof.
This is the hard part to write: I met a girl at the alternative school, she is difficult to explain but she has undergone unimaginable emotional and mental issues during her life. She is possibly my best friend and I have known her the least out of all my friends. I feel I do not need to explain why. She is simply a good person, which is rare especially after all she has gone through, and she is quite pretty. She is not even close to “preppy” or anything of the sort. She is her own category but she is not at all antisocial. She is not in the market for any sort of relationship either.
To get to the point, I am so unimaginably in love with this girl. I would do anything for her. I could go on for hours about how I feel for her, but I can not tell anyone… Especially where I am at with my life I feel she is all that I live for, and how I feel about her is rotting inside me. She is the only thing that can keep me from going insane. The unsure part is I do not know if this emotional outbreak is due to the schizophrenia, or if it is true.
I am optimistic about one thing. If I do go insane, I can point out that the Alternative school is a very low stress environment and is where most of my good friends reside. They will most likely go for this and I will have a chance to tell her how I feel. So in a sense I am depending on going insane, or it may become permanent and depression will sky rocket.



Now that you have been forwarded and viewing that painstakingly long summary of my life with some very personal text (yes you should feel lucky, even I do for having the will to post this) you are still probably wondering the purpose of me posting. I do not necessarily require a diagnosis. I have not spoken to anyone about this and want some simple feedback, suggestions, advisement/advice, etc. I would also appreciate some elaboration or explanation rather than short blunt answers. This is sort of for experimental purposes, advice will be taken into consideration and will be reviewed but I will not go upon it easily, especially due to the schizophrenia.

One thing I would like to note is how under exaggerated this post is. It was, is and will be a lot worse then it is shown.

Thank you for reading.

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Anonymous changed the tags on this post: they were "confusion, insanity, Love, Mind" 3 months ago.

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As my summer vacation comes to a close, many things are becoming unclear… Let me start from the top:

I began preschool as normal as any of the other children, not much to it other than that. But when I began 1st grade, things began to change. I started just a little “shy” but this quickly became a very antisocial attitude and eventually a slight hate. I didn’t take part in activities, attempt to make friends, or any of the general things. I had often been quite abnormal now that I think of it, thinking strange things and doing strange things. That continued. I was picked on, spat on, given little respect even by some of the teachers. I had felt segregated from being introduced into probably a 65%-75% Hispanic population at my school with few other Caucasians to associate with. This molded into a slight racism but I have long since grown into a heightened sense of logic.
This was until I began 5th grade, and was given another chance. Although I was of course a little slow (leaving elementary school with few friends)to understanding how the whole social structure worked. I didn’t get into much trouble, but that slight hate I had spoken of earlier worsened a bit into a kind of misanthrope viewing, but with logic. I had taken interest into explosives and weapons of all sorts, this pretty much continued.
Middle school I was completely in the shadows if you will, focusing on only doing what I was told and getting home. Normally I would have spent 7th and 8th that way, but in 8th grade I decided to try out an alternative school, no primary reason. I didn’t like it too much but stress levels were very low and I actually made some very good friends.
After 8th grade at the alternative school, when I began summer, I could tell it was going to be slow and painful. It was otherwise for the most part but extremely boring.
About half way through the summer, a number of things had happened. My logic, turned into philosophy. my philosophy to extreme confusion to depression to illogical blurs of thoughts. While this was happening, I gained a keen interest in the mind. I looked into mental illnesses, schizophrenia catching my eye. Now before I go any further, previous years were extremely stressful, probably self inflicted from excessive unnecessary thought. Even to a point of a manic-need to become insane. This would phase in and out.
Back to schizophrenia, as I continued to research it on the web, I underwent a kind of slow motion, oh **** moment over a long term period. I had always been a hypochondriac, but I realized how many signs and symptoms of schizophrenia I had shown through my life. I realized how I could easily get rid of this, but how much it was in my grasp.
I still do not understand whether my manic-need to obtain schizophrenia is a direct cause or simply a cause of my irrational thinking. Either way, the biggest part of it is the confusion, the extreme confusion over every little thing. To a debilitating extent. I have been relapsing sense, becoming paranoid, undergoing mainly auditory but visual hallucinations as well, very low motivation levels, low interest, etc. I noticed how classical and simply music in general helped calm and sooth me, but that has gone. And although a key part of schizophrenia is oblivion and I obviously lack that, I know for a fact it is imminent.
I believe the reason no one has noticed any of this is because I have always bottled my emotions and actions. I act normal, calm as can be around any other person besides my self, but when alone I become very emotional and my symptoms begin to show. I am beginning to slightly show some symptoms to friends and family on occasion and though they seem slightly abnormal, they cause generally no concern.
Now, my paranoia ensures this, I think to myself that others can not know of what is happening to me or they will retaliate in some harmful way (of course, much more in depth but I am not going to waste your time). I am fairly calm right now, and it is early which is probably why I am allowing myself to write this. To elaborate, my symptoms show the most as it gets later, but these are beginning to show earlier, as each day goes by.
Now looking a bit into the future, I know for a fact during high school and probably around half way through I will indefinitely require psychiatry for this. I can already tell that relapse rates will be through the roof.
This is the hard part to write: I met a girl at the alternative school, she is difficult to explain but she has undergone unimaginable emotional and mental issues during her life. She is possibly my best friend and I have known her the least out of all my friends. I feel I do not need to explain why. She is simply a good person, which is rare especially after all she has gone through, and she is quite pretty. She is not even close to “preppy” or anything of the sort. She is her own category but she is not at all antisocial. She is not in the market for any sort of relationship either.
To get to the point, I am so unimaginably in love with this girl. I would do anything for her. I could go on for hours about how I feel for her, but I can not tell anyone… Especially where I am at with my life I feel she is all that I live for, and how I feel about her is rotting inside me. She is the only thing that can keep me from going insane. The unsure part is I do not know if this emotional outbreak is due to the schizophrenia, or if it is true.
I am optimistic about one thing. If I do go insane, I can point out that the Alternative school is a very low stress environment and is where most of my good friends reside. They will most likely go for this and I will have a chance to tell her how I feel. So in a sense I am depending on going insane, or it may become permanent and depression will sky rocket.



Now that you have been forwarded and viewing that painstakingly long summary of my life with some very personal text (yes you should feel lucky, even I do for having the will to post this) you are still probably wondering the purpose of me posting. I do not necessarily require a diagnosis. I have not spoken to anyone about this and want some simple feedback, suggestions, advisement/advice, etc. I would also appreciate some elaboration or explanation rather than short blunt answers. This is sort of for experimental purposes, advice will be taken into consideration and will be reviewed but I will not go upon it easily, especially due to the schizophrenia.

One thing I would like to note is how under exaggerated this post is. It was, is and will be a lot worse then it is shown. I am not suicidal.

Thank you for reading.

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An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (13 minutes after post)

Are you really in 8th grade? If so you are extremely intelligent for one your age and much more enlightened on life then probably anyone else you go to school with. My advice would be perhaps you are just bored with the nominal workings of life as an 8th grader and perhaps thats what is making you feel insane.. maybe get involved in some activites involving adults..you sound much too old for your age. maybe it would help to be friends with older people. As for the schizophrenia I would say maybe you are only experiencing said hallucinations because you researched schizophrenia. It’s a mind trick, the only way out of that one is to convince yourself that you dont in fact have schizophrenia. But if you were experiencing these symptoms before the only way to know for certain is to obtain professional help. As for the girl, your feelings seem like once again they belong to an adult. An 8th grade girl probably won’t be capable of reciprocating your feelings to the same extent..

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Makes sense. I really appreciate the reply as well as the compliment. But another thing I’m unsure of is exactly whether I want schizophrenia. I had felt the want for specific symptoms as well as noticing some for quite some time but when I discovered it, it just offered a little more structure and some understanding on the matter. To be completely honest I am sort of hoping for the image insanity will bring as much as I hate to say this.

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Possible Schizophrenia?

As my summer vacation comes to a close, many things are becoming unclear… Let me start from the top:

I began preschool as normal as any of the other children, not much to it other than that. But when I began 1st grade, things began to change. I started just a little “shy” but this quickly became a very antisocial attitude and eventually a slight hate. I didn’t take part in activities, attempt to make friends, or any of the general things. I had often been quite abnormal now that I think of it, thinking strange things and doing strange things. That continued. I was picked on, spat on, given little respect even by some of the teachers. I had felt segregated from being introduced into probably a 65%-75% Hispanic population at my school with few other Caucasians to associate with. This molded into a slight racism but I have long since grown into a heightened sense of logic.
This was until I began 5th grade, and was given another chance. Although I was of course a little slow (leaving elementary school with few friends)to understanding how the whole social structure worked. I didn’t get into much trouble, but that slight hate I had spoken of earlier worsened a bit into a kind of misanthrope viewing, but with logic. I had taken interest into explosives and weapons of all sorts, this pretty much continued.
Middle school I was completely in the shadows if you will, focusing on only doing what I was told and getting home. Normally I would have spent 7th and 8th that way, but in 8th grade I decided to try out an alternative school, no primary reason. I didn’t like it too much but stress levels were very low and I actually made some very good friends.
After 8th grade at the alternative school, when I began summer, I could tell it was going to be slow and painful. It was otherwise for the most part but extremely boring.
About half way through the summer, a number of things had happened. My logic, turned into philosophy. my philosophy to extreme confusion to depression to illogical blurs of thoughts. While this was happening, I gained a keen interest in the mind. I looked into mental illnesses, schizophrenia catching my eye. Now before I go any further, previous years were extremely stressful, probably self inflicted from excessive unnecessary thought. Even to a point of a manic-need to become insane. This would phase in and out.
Back to schizophrenia, as I continued to research it on the web, I underwent a kind of slow motion, oh **** moment over a long term period. I had always been a hypochondriac, but I realized how many signs and symptoms of schizophrenia I had shown through my life. I realized how I could easily get rid of this, but how much it was in my grasp.
I still do not understand whether my manic-need to obtain schizophrenia is a direct cause or simply a cause of my irrational thinking. Either way, the biggest part of it is the confusion, the extreme confusion over every little thing. To a debilitating extent. I have been relapsing sense, becoming paranoid, undergoing mainly auditory but visual hallucinations as well, very low motivation levels, low interest, etc. I noticed how classical and simply music in general helped calm and sooth me, but that has gone. And although a key part of schizophrenia is oblivion and I obviously lack that, I know for a fact it is imminent.
I believe the reason no one has noticed any of this is because I have always bottled my emotions and actions. I act normal, calm as can be around any other person besides my self, but when alone I become very emotional and my symptoms begin to show. I am beginning to slightly show some symptoms to friends and family on occasion and though they seem slightly abnormal, they cause generally no concern.
Now, my paranoia ensures this, I think to myself that others can not know of what is happening to me or they will retaliate in some harmful way (of course, much more in depth but I am not going to waste your time). I am fairly calm right now, and it is early which is probably why I am allowing myself to write this. To elaborate, my symptoms show the most as it gets later, but these are beginning to show earlier, as each day goes by.
Now looking a bit into the future, I know for a fact during high school and probably around half way through I will indefinitely require psychiatry for this. I can already tell that relapse rates will be through the roof.
This is the hard part to write: I met a girl at the alternative school, she is difficult to explain but she has undergone unimaginable emotional and mental issues during her life. She is possibly my best friend and I have known her the least out of all my friends. I feel I do not need to explain why. She is simply a good person, which is rare especially after all she has gone through, and she is quite pretty. She is not even close to “preppy” or anything of the sort. She is her own category but she is not at all antisocial. She is not in the market for any sort of relationship either.
To get to the point, I am so unimaginably in love with this girl. I would do anything for her. I could go on for hours about how I feel for her, but I can not tell anyone… Especially where I am at with my life I feel she is all that I live for, and how I feel about her is rotting inside me. She is the only thing that can keep me from going insane. The unsure part is I do not know if this emotional outbreak is due to the schizophrenia, or if it is true.
I am optimistic about one thing. If I do go insane, I can point out that the Alternative school is a very low stress environment and is where most of my good friends reside. They will most likely go for this and I will have a chance to tell her how I feel. So in a sense I am depending on going insane, or it may become permanent and depression will sky rocket.



Now that you have been forwarded and viewing that painstakingly long summary of my life with some very personal text (yes you should feel lucky, even I do for having the will to post this) you are still probably wondering the purpose of me posting. I do not necessarily require a diagnosis. I have not spoken to anyone about this and want some simple feedback, suggestions, advisement/advice, etc. I would also appreciate some elaboration or explanation rather than short blunt answers. This is sort of for experimental purposes, advice will be taken into consideration and will be reviewed but I will not go upon it easily, especially due to the schizophrenia.

One thing I would like to note is how under exaggerated this post is. It was, is and will be a lot worse then it is shown. I am not suicidal.

Thank you for reading.

Anonymous edited this post 3 months ago. Read the previous text »

Possible Schizophrenia?

As my summer vacation comes to a close, many things are becoming unclear… Let me start from the top:

I began preschool as normal as any of the other children, not much to it other than that. But when I began 1st grade, things began to change. I started just a little “shy” but this quickly became a very antisocial attitude and eventually a slight hate. I didn’t take part in activities, attempt to make friends, or any of the general things. I had often been quite abnormal now that I think of it, thinking strange things and doing strange things. That continued. I was picked on, spat on, given little respect even by some of the teachers. I had felt segregated from being introduced into probably a 65%-75% Hispanic population at my school with few other Caucasians to associate with. This molded into a slight racism but I have long since grown into a heightened sense of logic.
This was until I began 5th grade, and was given another chance. Although I was of course a little slow (leaving elementary school with few friends)to understanding how the whole social structure worked. I didn’t get into much trouble, but that slight hate I had spoken of earlier worsened a bit into a kind of misanthrope viewing, but with logic. I had taken interest into explosives and weapons of all sorts, this pretty much continued.
Middle school I was completely in the shadows if you will, focusing on only doing what I was told and getting home. Normally I would have spent 7th and 8th that way, but in 8th grade I decided to try out an alternative school, no primary reason. I didn’t like it too much but stress levels were very low and I actually made some very good friends.
After 8th grade at the alternative school, when I began summer, I could tell it was going to be slow and painful. It was otherwise for the most part but extremely boring.
About half way through the summer, a number of things had happened. My logic, turned into philosophy. my philosophy to extreme confusion to depression to illogical blurs of thoughts. While this was happening, I gained a keen interest in the mind. I looked into mental illnesses, schizophrenia catching my eye. Now before I go any further, previous years were extremely stressful, probably self inflicted from excessive unnecessary thought. Even to a point of a manic-need to become insane. This would phase in and out.
Back to schizophrenia, as I continued to research it on the web, I underwent a kind of slow motion, oh **** moment over a long term period. I had always been a hypochondriac, but I realized how many signs and symptoms of schizophrenia I had shown through my life. I realized how I could easily get rid of this, but how much it was in my grasp.
I still do not understand whether my manic-need to obtain schizophrenia is a direct cause or simply a cause of my irrational thinking. Either way, the biggest part of it is the confusion, the extreme confusion over every little thing. To a debilitating extent. I have been relapsing sense, becoming paranoid, undergoing mainly auditory but visual hallucinations as well, very low motivation levels, low interest, etc. I noticed how classical and simply music in general helped calm and sooth me, but that has gone. And although a key part of schizophrenia is oblivion and I obviously lack that, I know for a fact it is imminent.
I believe the reason no one has noticed any of this is because I have always bottled my emotions and actions. I act normal, calm as can be around any other person besides my self, but when alone I become very emotional and my symptoms begin to show. I am beginning to slightly show some symptoms to friends and family on occasion and though they seem slightly abnormal, they cause generally no concern.
Now, my paranoia ensures this, I think to myself that others can not know of what is happening to me or they will retaliate in some harmful way (of course, much more in depth but I am not going to waste your time). I am fairly calm right now, and it is early which is probably why I am allowing myself to write this. To elaborate, my symptoms show the most as it gets later, but these are beginning to show earlier, as each day goes by.
Now looking a bit into the future, I know for a fact during high school and probably around half way through I will indefinitely require psychiatry for this. I can already tell that relapse rates will be through the roof.
This is the hard part to write: I met a girl at the alternative school, she is difficult to explain but she has undergone unimaginable emotional and mental issues during her life. She is possibly my best friend and I have known her the least out of all my friends. I feel I do not need to explain why. She is simply a good person, which is rare especially after all she has gone through, and she is quite pretty. She is not even close to “preppy” or anything of the sort. She is her own category but she is not at all antisocial. She is not in the market for any sort of relationship either.
To get to the point, I am so unimaginably in love with this girl. I would do anything for her. I could go on for hours about how I feel for her, but I can not tell anyone… Especially where I am at with my life I feel she is all that I live for, and how I feel about her is rotting inside me. She is the only thing that can keep me from going insane. The unsure part is I do not know if this emotional outbreak is due to the schizophrenia, or if it is true.
I am optimistic about one thing. If I do go insane, I can point out that the Alternative school is a very low stress environment and is where most of my good friends reside. They will most likely go for this and I will have a chance to tell her how I feel. So in a sense I am depending on going insane, or it may become permanent and depression will sky rocket.



Now that you have been forwarded and viewing that painstakingly long summary of my life with some very personal text (yes you should feel lucky, even I do for having the will to post this) you are still probably wondering the purpose of me posting. I do not necessarily require a diagnosis. I have not spoken to anyone about this and want some simple feedback, suggestions, advisement/advice, etc. I would also appreciate some elaboration or explanation rather than short blunt answers. This is sort of for experimental purposes, advice will be taken into consideration and will be reviewed but I will not go upon it easily, especially due to the schizophrenia.

One thing I would like to note is how under exaggerated this post is. It was, is and will be a lot worse then it is shown. I am not suicidal. I may need to provide a little more emphasis on the depression.

Thank you for reading.

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Possible Schizophrenia?

As my summer vacation comes to a close, many things are becoming unclear… Let me start from the top:

I began preschool as normal as any of the other children, not much to it other than that. But when I began 1st grade, things began to change. I started just a little “shy” but this quickly became a very antisocial attitude and eventually a slight hate. I didn’t take part in activities, attempt to make friends, or any of the general things. I had often been quite abnormal now that I think of it, thinking strange things and doing strange things. That continued. I was picked on, spat on, given little respect even by some of the teachers. I had felt segregated from being introduced into probably a 65%-75% Hispanic population at my school with few other Caucasians to associate with. This molded into a slight racism but I have long since grown into a heightened sense of logic.
This was until I began 5th grade, and was given another chance. Although I was of course a little slow (leaving elementary school with few friends)to understanding how the whole social structure worked. I didn’t get into much trouble, but that slight hate I had spoken of earlier worsened a bit into a kind of misanthrope viewing, but with logic. I had taken interest into explosives and weapons of all sorts, this pretty much continued.
Middle school I was completely in the shadows if you will, focusing on only doing what I was told and getting home. Normally I would have spent 7th and 8th that way, but in 8th grade I decided to try out an alternative school, no primary reason. I didn’t like it too much but stress levels were very low and I actually made some very good friends.
After 8th grade at the alternative school, when I began summer, I could tell it was going to be slow and painful. It was otherwise for the most part but extremely boring.
About half way through the summer, a number of things had happened. My logic, turned into philosophy. my philosophy to extreme confusion to depression to illogical blurs of thoughts. While this was happening, I gained a keen interest in the mind. I looked into mental illnesses, schizophrenia catching my eye. Now before I go any further, previous years were extremely stressful, probably self inflicted from excessive unnecessary thought. Even to a point of a manic-need to become insane. This would phase in and out.
Back to schizophrenia, as I continued to research it on the web, I underwent a kind of slow motion, oh **** moment over a long term period. I had always been a hypochondriac, but I realized how many signs and symptoms of schizophrenia I had shown through my life. I realized how I could easily get rid of this, but how much it was in my grasp.
I still do not understand whether my manic-need to obtain schizophrenia is a direct cause or simply a cause of my irrational thinking. Either way, the biggest part of it is the confusion, the extreme confusion over every little thing. To a debilitating extent. I have been relapsing sense, becoming paranoid, undergoing mainly auditory but visual hallucinations as well, very low motivation levels, low interest, etc. I noticed how classical and simply music in general helped calm and sooth me, but that has gone. And although a key part of schizophrenia is oblivion and I obviously lack that, I know for a fact it is imminent.
I believe the reason no one has noticed any of this is because I have always bottled my emotions and actions. I act normal, calm as can be around any other person besides my self, but when alone I become very emotional and my symptoms begin to show. I am beginning to slightly show some symptoms to friends and family on occasion and though they seem slightly abnormal, they cause generally no concern.
Now, my paranoia ensures this, I think to myself that others can not know of what is happening to me or they will retaliate in some harmful way (of course, much more in depth but I am not going to waste your time). I am fairly calm right now, and it is early which is probably why I am allowing myself to write this. To elaborate, my symptoms show the most as it gets later, but these are beginning to show earlier, as each day goes by.
Now looking a bit into the future, I know for a fact during high school and probably around half way through I will indefinitely require psychiatry for this. I can already tell that relapse rates will be through the roof.
This is the hard part to write: I met a girl at the alternative school, she is difficult to explain but she has undergone unimaginable emotional and mental issues during her life. She is possibly my best friend and I have known her the least out of all my friends. I feel I do not need to explain why. She is simply a good person, which is rare especially after all she has gone through, and she is quite pretty. She is not even close to “preppy” or anything of the sort. She is her own category but she is not at all antisocial. She is not in the market for any sort of relationship either.
To get to the point, I am so unimaginably in love with this girl. I would do anything for her. I could go on for hours about how I feel for her, but I can not tell anyone… Especially where I am at with my life I feel she is all that I live for, and how I feel about her is rotting inside me. She is the only thing that can keep me from going insane. The unsure part is I do not know if this emotional outbreak is due to the schizophrenia, or if it is true.
I am optimistic about one thing. If I do go insane, I can point out that the Alternative school is a very low stress environment and is where most of my good friends reside. They will most likely go for this and I will have a chance to tell her how I feel. So in a sense I am depending on going insane, or it may become permanent and depression will sky rocket.



Now that you have been forwarded and viewing that painstakingly long summary of my life with some very personal text (yes you should feel lucky, even I do for having the will to post this) you are still probably wondering the purpose of me posting. I do not necessarily require a diagnosis. I have not spoken to anyone about this and want some simple feedback, suggestions, advisement/advice, etc. I would also appreciate some elaboration or explanation rather than short blunt answers. This is sort of for experimental purposes, advice will be taken into consideration and will be reviewed but I will not go upon it easily, especially due to the schizophrenia.

One thing I would like to note is how under exaggerated this post is. It was, is and will be a lot worse then it is shown. I am not suicidal. I may need to provide a little more emphasis on the depression and how low my motivation is, I can’t convince myself to do anything. Another motive for schizophrenia would be as an escape from this harsh, unpleasant reality with no pay off this far.

Thank you for reading.

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An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (37 minutes after post)

Maybe you don’t want it.. maybe you’re just looking for some substantial thing to attach your problems to. A label makes things a lot less confusing. But that could end up causing more problems if it’s the wrong label. Although i won’t claim to ‘diagnose’ you i do have a degree in psychology and I would say with a certain degree of confidence you probably don’t have full blown schizophrenia, maybe a mild form perhaps like schizoid disorder (not to give you more to research haha..) I would just suggest seeing someone professionally if you want definite answers on the subject

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I’m running out of problems… Yes I do already know what schizoid disorder is, I don’t think I would place that as a primary possible diagnosis but I won’t rule it out. A mild form of schizophrenia sounds appropriate but as I said I have been relapsing and High School won’t necessarily help. I do feel somewhat better about this though.

Now that you’ve already done this much… What can I do to motivate myself once again and bring the joy back in life? The girl seems like the only thing that has that ability right now and I’m not sure how to respond to what you said about her not “capable of reciprocating your feelings to the same extent.. ” you really would have to get to know her. And although it does hurt, I do know how right you probably are but she is an extremely good friend. At this very moment that seems all that is left. Not that I expect you to answer.

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An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (53 minutes after post)

hahah well apparently i have no life just waiting for people to tell me what to do about my own problems so.. of course ill answer! hmm well i said that because although i dont know you personally you seem extremely mature for your age and most 8th grade girls (i was one at one point) are not prepared so have such love as you professed in your post given to them. to be absolutely honest talking to her maybe telling her you like her would be good and if she felt the same way you would both be happier. BUT if i were you i wouldnt use terms like “unimginably in love” to her just yet. move slow even if you dont feel that way because your intense feelings may scare her.

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An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (1 hour, 4 minutes after post)

That sounds good, thanks a lot for the feedback. I was thinking the same general thing, she is pretty intelligent though. Right now the best thing I can think of doing is coping with my own problems the best I can and focusing on our friendship and generally making her happy. That being the case, what do you think the chances are of a future sort of relationship?

Although, as I said before I am sort depending on going insane as a method of transferring back to the alternative school where her education will reside for the next four years (yes, I know there are numerous other methods but it does fit the situation). I’ve noticed how even though a virtual connection may exist between friends, you do distance quickly without physically associating or hanging out in some way. That is one fear, the other is probably a cliche, I have a slight fear the only thing she will always think of me is as a friend and she will find someone else. More confusion presents it’s self here as, when it comes down to it, all I want is for her to be happy.

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An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (1 hour, 9 minutes after post)

honestly…no one can give you the stats on how a potential relationship will do. that is one of the bad things, risk. you will have to decide whether or not you want to risk telling her and risk being rejected. and i dont really know of anyone who has been together since 8th grade so.. i honestly dont know. the only other thing i could suggest is to just be her friend for a few years and confess your love when you’re a little older and a long term relationship would have better chances maybe but thats probably not the best advice. im probably not the person to ask about this as im having more than my fair share of relationship issues at the moment.

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An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (1 hour, 14 minutes after post)

Well, I couldn’t have hoped for better feedback (in all honestly) I try to keep my morals up as best I can, but people tend to make that difficult. I’m going to view this as the result of some saved up karma points as I haven’t redeemed any for a while (not to expect anything) hehe. but I have to go, I couldn’t thank you enough for taking the time to help me out.

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