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Anonymous #1
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 Friend is Paranoid Schizo 
#11572184 - 12/02/09 06:34 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Any of y'all got paranoid schizo friends?
I just ran into an old friend, and it turns out that now he's a paranoid schizo. I didn't see it coming, but if there's any personality (besides myself), that the condition would tailor to it would be him.
So I met up with him because I knew he just wanted someone to listen to. SO I did. I can see where he's coming from, making the connections that he does, but he just gets lost in all that horse-shit and is never going to find any answers.
I told him that he has more control than he thinks he does (with what he experiences day to day), and just live life. There's nothing you can do about these so called AI satellites controlling synchronicities and the weather, my friend. Just try to have a good time.
Any way, he's just an old friend. Never were very close, I don't see myself chilling with him a lot, but he does enjoy smoking weed and working out, one of my favourite passed times.
He eventually mentioned that he hears voices and they just follow him around him play with his reality, making synchronicities happen, criticizing what he does, and controlling the people around him for whatever butt-fuck unknown reason, to keep him from warning the world of the truth or something.
Don't get me wrong, I know crazy shit is going on behind the scenes on all sort of levels, but fuck it, you live, you die, time doesn't exist, and neither do we.
Just wondering if any of you are paranoid schizos, or know people/have friends that are. I'm just wondering if there is anyway I can help this guy so he doesn't waste his mind away trying to find an answer for the unanswerable.
For the record, from what I have heard from other people, he has gone on medication and been diagnosed, and also that the therapist took his drivers license because he was talking about those damned satellites. Might I also add that he is still quite composed. He doesn't come off as a paranoid schizo, he seems to be taking it all in good stride, but it seems like all he wants to talk about is the government and how they are controlling his mind and shit.
Edited by Anonymous (12/02/09 06:41 PM)
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Anonymous #2
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You're talking about me, aren't you? How much did Kissinger pay you to write this?! Fucking dinosaurs in disguise, where's a meteor when you need one...
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Anonymous #3
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Well schizophrenia is one of the more severe mental illnesses that you can develop. The medications only temporarily dull the influence of the delusions and hallucinations. It totally fucks your reality up. It's really torturing shit for a good friend of mine.
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Anonymous #4
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If he is in his late teens, early twenties the symptoms might go away when he gets a little older.
My brother is a schizophrenic, had really bad delusions in his late teens, and early twenties, but they seem to have disappeared now that he has gotten a little older (he is 26 now).
He had similar delusions that you described: he was obsessed with the FBI and thought they were watching, following, and purposely irritating him by making tap noises inside the walls of our house.
Like I said, all those symptoms have disappeared now and he is a normal person and does not take medication.
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Anonymous #5
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Your friend sounds just like me! But I'm not paranoid. Just happily delusional.
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Anonymous #6
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I have a friend who started devloping schizophrenia in the past couple of years and sadly I cant even hang out with him anymore. He will accuse me of trying to set him up with the cops and then start talking about how someone is trying to kill him. Its really really really sad, and it breaks my heart when i see him.
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Anonymous #7
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“Today a young man on acid realised that all matter
is just energy condensed to a slow vabration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.” - Bill Hicks
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Anonymous #6
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that has nothing to do with this 
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Anonymous #2
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Quote:
Anonymous #6 said:
that has nothing to do with this
 
THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK
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Anonymous #6
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Quote:
Anonymous #2 said:
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Anonymous #6 said:
that has nothing to do with this
THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK
well played
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Anonymous #7
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OP sounds like a shitty back stabbing shitty friend.
What a fag loser for not being understanding.
fuck you OP you jack off.
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Anonymous #8
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Quote:
Anonymous #7 said:
OP sounds like a shitty back stabbing shitty friend.
What a fag loser for not being understanding.
fuck you OP you jack off.
you are a jerk.
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Anonymous #1
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Anonymous #3 said:
Well schizophrenia is one of the more severe mental illnesses that you can develop. The medications only temporarily dull the influence of the delusions and hallucinations. It totally fucks your reality up. It's really torturing shit for a good friend of mine.
Definitely. Though it seems not to be yet very severe for my friend. Hopefully it doesn't progress toward full blown schizophrenia.
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Anonymous #4 said:
If he is in his late teens, early twenties the symptoms might go away when he gets a little older.
My brother is a schizophrenic, had really bad delusions in his late teens, and early twenties, but they seem to have disappeared now that he has gotten a little older (he is 26 now).
He had similar delusions that you described: he was obsessed with the FBI and thought they were watching, following, and purposely irritating him by making tap noises inside the walls of our house.
Like I said, all those symptoms have disappeared now and he is a normal person and does not take medication.
Early 20's. This is great news to hear. Hopefully it all works out for my friend as well. Currently he is still very composed and although he is adamant about what is happening to him, he can still talk about other things quite normally.
He actually mentioned the tapping noises inside the walls of his house, above and below, and also in his class room. I asked him so don't you think that it's just the people that live below you and above, and also classrooms above yours in school, making noises? And he's like "no."
Even funnier is that although he mentioned t he CIA, he actually was talking about the Canadian counter-part. CSIS.
But seriously, it's not funny. The nature of what is happening to him is not funny. What comes out of his mouth, is, I suppose.
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Anonymous #5 said:
Your friend sounds just like me! But I'm not paranoid. Just happily delusional.
Well... the thing is that he hears voices and is just really paranoid. I also consider myself happy delusional at times, and it's great. It has a liberating effect to believe whatever the fuck you want.
But it's like he's just taken it to the next level. He wanted a friend of ours to build him a time machine.
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Anonymous #6 said:
I have a friend who started devloping schizophrenia in the past couple of years and sadly I cant even hang out with him anymore. He will accuse me of trying to set him up with the cops and then start talking about how someone is trying to kill him. Its really really really sad, and it breaks my heart when i see him.
Sorry to hear. Hopefully it somehow works out in the end.
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Anonymous #7 said:
�Today a young man on acid realised that all matter
is just energy condensed to a slow vabration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.� - Bill Hicks
I feel you. So much in fact that this was pretty much what I was trying to express to him when we met up. We talked for a good hour on the street.
Maybe I should just point him toward some Bill Hicks.
Anything else I could do?
I'm of the idea that if he just looks into the right material, he might just be able to work toward getting better. It's like, he's taking all of this too seriously. I guess it's only natural if he's hearing voices and he's 'researching' all of this advanced technology. It's all but a dream!
Hell, I've heard voices too but that's limited to my sleep paralysis sleep-waking states.
Edited by Anonymous (12/03/09 09:28 PM)
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Anonymous #9
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Anonymous #1 said:
Any of y'all got paranoid schizo friends?
I have a friend who's extremely schizophrenic but not a paranoid schizophrenic. I'm the only person who hangs out with him since the rest of his so-called friends pretty much ditched him when he went insane. I like to have intellectual conversations with people but that's impossible with him. I've had more intelligent conversations with 5-year olds than I do with him. He laughs constantly at absolutely nothing all the time. A lot of the time he will just stare at you and his eyes will roll into the back of his head when you try asking him a question. Then there's the extreme psychotic episodes he has. For instance, one time he drove to a church that was in session and was on the front lawn screaming "the devil is on my back!!! I'm giving the devil a piggy-back ride!!!"
  I feel really bad for him.
Edited by Anonymous (12/04/09 11:35 PM)
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Anonymous #10
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My mom is paranoid schizo; so is one of my best friends.
My mom thought a country music singer bugged our house with cameras and recording devices and people who lived halfway across the country were sneaking in and stealing things when she just misplaced them. She got over the country music singer thing but she still thinks people living halfway across the country break into the house while she is asleep and steal things.
My friend thought he was in the Truman show for real and that all these cameras were focused on him. One night he was found shouting in the middle of the street and he thought he was in the news. He thought the government put LSD in the water when American Idol came to town. He also thought he was batman and smashed a hole in his basement to dig a batcave. Onetime he drove his van around in circles on the lawn and said "I dont need a mower! who needs a mower!?"
He is on meds now and is MUCH better. Completely lucid with NONE of the delusions.
I can see that I have inherited tendencies and while at times I do hear voices I still have enough control to discern my delusions from what is real.
Some of the things Ive thought: aliens were removing parts of my brain to eliminate memories, I was some sorta bizarre hybrid experiment, many humans were actually fakes created by these alien overlords, the food I was given in restaurants was poisoned, people were going to crucify me because I was the messiah, the devil was talking to me, the government had these mind control machines that were genetically engineered huge partially cybernetic brain looking things with all manner of tubes and wires hooked up to them, I got possessed by a demon and people were working malicious magic on me from afar.
It all snowballs once we psyche ourselves up about something. Sometimes I wont be able to sleep when they get really bad, other times I wont have them for months.
Im 24 now and the peak of the delusions was when I was 19-22. I coulda had the short lasting thing you guys were talking about.
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Anonymous #11
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Its kinda a relief to hear you guys talk about this stuff. I had a buddy of mine (whos 21) recently snap and get lost in his schizophrenic delusions  Hes now on medicine and is deppressed as shit. He wont leave the house Im hearing, and everytime I call it just sounds like he's void of emotion and miserable.
Im praying things work out for him, i can tell he is not having a fun time. I have OCD which makes you worry constantly about this stuff, but I have never actually lost contact with reality (excluding strong mushroom trips where I mistake reality for purgatory  )
Its really sad. His delousions involved thinking he was the creator of family guy and spongebob. He thought HE was the sole reason I used drugs in high school and it was his fault I ended up getting arrested
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