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My roommate might be turning schizophrenic..
#19085325 - 11/04/13 01:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Or some other mental illness. Since coming back for this school year hes been a lot different. He was always a space case, like had no common sense type of kid. But hes never been difficult to talk to. Now it is painful for me to hold a conversation with him, like its insanely hard to get his attention to start the conversation, I have to try to get his attention multiple times. And when we do start conversing he goes out to space in like 30 seconds.
He'll just sit there staring into space when we are chilling in the living room, occasionally laughing out of no where. Sometimes he makes weird grunt like sounds from no where.
A few weeks ago he said something like " You know what keeps popping into my head? Shut up you dirty negroe ( the more vulgar alternative" And hes never been rascist before and I dont think he is now.. He said that phrase often for like a week and just laughed at it.
Last night he came out to smoke a cig with us, walked in and out three seperate times before finally lighting his cig, i have no idea why.
He's 20, a lot different from last year and I am starting to get concerned.
Thoughts?
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: TheMovement]
#19085343 - 11/04/13 01:13 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ask him about it, and print some literature off to maybe convince him to go see a doctor. This a time in life where young men are prone to start showing latent mental illness. I don't think it's schizophrenia, but it could be something else. Does he do drugs?
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: TheMovement]
#19085346 - 11/04/13 01:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Kill him before he rapes you.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: mellowparty]
#19085435 - 11/04/13 01:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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sounds like Toxoplasma gondii infection to me
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: Mush4Brains]
#19085451 - 11/04/13 01:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Depends on what you define as drugs.
Last year we smoked a lot of weed together, in fact i remember him asking me one time after getting stoned " Do I get too fucked up by weed? IDK i just feel like i get more fucked up than other people" and I didnt think anything of it. Did acid once a few years ago, tripped on 1.7g of shrooms last year, bad trip. Did adderal to help with school frequently last year and this year. But thats it, never really was too into them.
Smoked a lot this year until 2 weeks ago when his parents staged an intervention type thing to get him off 'drugs' and weed once they noticed that he was off. He's been clean of everything but alc coffee and cigs since.
I brought it up with him yesterday telling him hes a lot different than last year and im concerned. He said that hes still the same person, same old derd. He also said something simlar to " THemovement dont you know? Know how to read people?" then later in the conversation " Do you know about selling your soul to people? like when you give your heart to them.
I asked him if he would be willing to go talk to someone about it, asked 4 times before i got a reply " no." when I asked him why he said he was " too proud"
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: TheMovement]
#19085598 - 11/04/13 02:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Really tough situation OP. A friend of mine is going through a similar thing right now. He's normal to talk to, except sometimes he'll laugh out loud for no reason, and sometimes he casually drops into conversation that he talks to angels. Once we were walking down an empty street and he asked if I saw that girls hair, when there was absolutely no one around. Shit like that. I've raised the possibility of him getting some sort of help, but he's completely against it. He thinks it's all real and that he's enlightened etc. It seems like it'd be easy for the schizophrenic person to see taking medication as all part of some larger conspiracy. It's a pretty hard position to argue against without them thinking you're part of "it" too. Anyway, to get to my point, I don't think there's much you can do if they don't think they have a problem. Let me know if you find a solution, I'd like to know too.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: user1837483975]
#19085676 - 11/04/13 02:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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maybe he is drinking way more than you think.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: mindgnome]
#19085688 - 11/04/13 02:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hes not.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: TheMovement]
#19085719 - 11/04/13 02:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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hmm i've seen this before. i know sometimes i'll laugh out loud out of no where because i'll get a bunch of funny ideas/situations in my head. i can understand that, but the other part about him making no sense doesn't seem healthy. maybe he is taking a drug you dont know about, or weed/psyches flashbacks, could even be that he isn't getting enough sleep. i know this is irrelevant but does he listen to death metal?..
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: zZZz]
#19085742 - 11/04/13 02:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Doesn't listen to music much other than what I put on. I know he gets enough sleep, and im almost positive hes not taking any other drugs
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: TheMovement]
#19085773 - 11/04/13 02:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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how social is he?, could be he's been spending too much time by himself and got stuck in his own head. you should definitely have a serious talk with him if it really as bad a you say.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: zZZz]
#19086323 - 11/04/13 05:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Im in a similar situation. I wouldnt write your friend off totally as schizophrenic yet. But I know it can be hard to get him to open up about that kind of thing. Just when he says something very odd try to press him gently to open up about it. Find out more what he means, why he said that, etc.
My friend it would be too much to type up. He gradually became more distant, extremely monotone, showing no emotion, and would always repeat the same thing in conversation. He still only seems to want to talk about the same thing, or atleast does that as a means to ground himself. He was one of my really close friends for years, over the past month he went from calling me every day to now never calling. This has been going on for the past few years, and over the past year I did get him to open up about some of the more internal things going on. Whispering, interpreting everything as being outside of his control and under the control of a master who was in charge of his life. I have tried for the past year and still probably understand a small part of the picture.
Anyways man, I know hes your friend. Try your best to get him to open up when he seems off the best you can. Also try to find out if he has a family history of anything. But just continue to be there for him and dont beat yourself up over how he develops.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: weshroom]
#19086396 - 11/04/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My roommate might be turning schizophrenic
maybe you should fuck him
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: NWlight] 2
#19086449 - 11/04/13 05:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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mellowparty said: Kill him before he rapes you.
QFT
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NWlight said:
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My roommate might be turning schizophrenic
maybe you should fuck him
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19086493 - 11/04/13 05:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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schizophrenics just see links where they don't belong, very superstitous people that don't use comparisons when they get lost in thought for what seems like a second a whole minute will go buy
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: Konyap]
#19086540 - 11/04/13 05:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i think the term is bankrupt. because based on what i am reading here, if you space out a bunch and get overly lost in a mental world, that is being schizo. well, that can happen to anybody. and especially psychonautically inclined people will want to investigate their own minds and see the numerous wonders it has to offer.
as for the kid in the OP he doesn't sound too bad, maybe he should meditate on compassion so that he doesn't always think in vulgarities.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: Konyap]
#19086545 - 11/04/13 05:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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leave the kid alone, jeez. he'll straighten out if he buys into the plan and becomes incredibly busy trying to make as much money as possible.
schizophrenia is when ur tweaked out on like speed all the time and hear those loud chirping sounds from the shadows and from inside your pillow. you can do that to yourself if you take too many caffeine pills and jerk off over and over and over. you can't sleep after a while, u just zone out and startle back awake hearing chirping sounds n feeling like ur falling but can't move. totally sucks.
EDIT: for the record, for as therapeutic as adderall is supposed to be, adderall CAUSED these kind of symptoms in me really bad. that shit is fuckn hardcore.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: stimpson]
#19086556 - 11/04/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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stimpson said: leave the kid alone, jeez. he'll straighten out if he buys into the plan and becomes incredibly busy trying to make as much money as possible.
schizophrenia is when ur tweaked out on like speed all the time and hear those loud chirping sounds from the shadows and from inside your pillow. you can do that to yourself if you take too many caffeine pills and jerk off over and over and over. you can't sleep after a while, u just zone out and startle back awake hearing chirping sounds n feeling like ur falling but can't move. totally sucks.
I would love to get a beer with you and hear ur theories on life
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: NWlight]
#19086563 - 11/04/13 05:59 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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NWlight said:
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stimpson said: leave the kid alone, jeez. he'll straighten out if he buys into the plan and becomes incredibly busy trying to make as much money as possible.
schizophrenia is when ur tweaked out on like speed all the time and hear those loud chirping sounds from the shadows and from inside your pillow. you can do that to yourself if you take too many caffeine pills and jerk off over and over and over. you can't sleep after a while, u just zone out and startle back awake hearing chirping sounds n feeling like ur falling but can't move. totally sucks.
I would love to get a beer with you and hear ur theories on life
can't! i'm a gangstar mang. u wanna move sum shit n make sum money, or u got a gurl that needs a pussy lickin U CALL ME. otherwise i'm goin' back to bed.
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Re: My roommate might be turning schizophrenic.. [Re: TheMovement] 1
#19086624 - 11/04/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow man, I'm sorry to hear that. I had a friend who started acting EXACTLY the same way, and he ended up getting diagnosed with schizophrenia. After a few years of trying different meds, he finally found something that made him 'normal' again. Btw, the ages 19, 20 are typically when schizophrenia symptoms come into fruition. I've read that one in 200 people develop schizophrenia, but I've also read that one in every 100 people do.
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