Schizophrenia Diaries » Thank You http://schizophreniadiaries.com True Stories & Diaries of Psychological Torture Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Thanks for sharing http://schizophreniadiaries.com/schizophrenic-stories/thanks-for-sharing/ http://schizophreniadiaries.com/schizophrenic-stories/thanks-for-sharing/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:12:09 +0000 admin http://schizophreniadiaries.com/testWP/?p=177 I hope it is not inappropriate to post a thank you without a story.  I would have wished to respond to so many of these stories one by one.  But as the site provides no forwarding email, all my appreciation must be pooled here on this one entry.  Your stories meant so very much to me in so many ways.  Aspects of my past are finally not alone to dwell on themselves, freeing much of myself the freedom to deal with my life (or what lacked from it), and the clarity to be removed from the longing to understand others experiences  so I could relate and move on with my own.  I am so grateful to have found this resource and wish I had a way to contact some of you.  What I have gained is more than I could have ever asked for.  What had consumed my thoughts about my own past episode(s) was that although I was very alone and ignorant of schizophrenia symptoms at the time I felt a near obsessional belief that it linked a few straggler people together through rogue kinds of life experience.
Hopefully, our journey through healing and the attainment of a life we want won’t have to be compromised by our health, or even the demands to achieve it. Thank you guys for sharing, it meant a  lot to me.

]]> http://schizophreniadiaries.com/schizophrenic-stories/thanks-for-sharing/feed/ 0 My Son Committed Suicide At Age 23 http://schizophreniadiaries.com/suicide/my-son-committed-suicide-at-age-23/ http://schizophreniadiaries.com/suicide/my-son-committed-suicide-at-age-23/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:59:03 +0000 admin http://schizophreniadiaries.com/testWP/?p=75 Name: Linda
A Friend/Family Member\’s Story
email: http://joseph-j-dionisio-jr.memory-of.com/

Please visit my son’s website. His sister Linnie created it for him. My son committed suicide at age 23 on May 9th 2005. He had been diagnosed over the years as bipolar, schizophrenic, etc. they could never make a medical determination of what his mental illness truly was. None of his meds worked, none of his psychiatrists helped…nothing helped him and it was very frustrating, sad and terrible. His mental illness started to destroy him at age 15 and it was relentless. My son, Joseph was a brillant, kind, beautiful person who was in torture all of the time. He tried to fight it, he did the best, the very best he could, but in the end he had to leave. I love my son and miss him greatly.

Email: Lynda579@aol.com

Please visit my sons website. His sister created it in his memory and honor. My son was diagnosed with biopolar, schizophrenia, etc. The mental health community could never give us a clear diagnosis. My son started getting ill at age 15 and through the years, no matter what we did to help him….psychiatrists, battery of very expensive tests, hospitals, threapy, medication…nothing worked or helped. My son took his life at age 23 on May 9, 2005. He fought for 8 years against his foe, mental illness. He was a bright, brillant, beautiful, funny person. I miss him so very much.

Thank you very much. I had hoped to help is some way in my son’s name. I am in profound sadness every day of my life. My daughter, Joseph’s sister Linda has been through so much sorrow and pain over the death of her only brother. We loved him so much and tried so very hard to help him. I would like people to visit his site to see what a beautiful person he was, how much he is loved and how much he is missed. It is my hope that if someone is contemplating suicide he/she will read about my son and how he suffered and how we are now suffering missing him and not do it.

http://joseph-j-dionisio-jr.memory-of.com/

Thank you,

Linda, mom of Joseph

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