Comments for Schizophrenia Diaries

Comment on Founding Story – 2 Year Diary Of Schizophrenia by Isidro Bolka

Isidro Bolka — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:00:32 +0000

Hello, great day! Your article is extremely uplifting. I never imagined that it was possible to do something like that until after I looked over your article. You certainly offered a great insight on how this kind of whole scheme performs. I’ll always come back for more info. Keep it up!

Comment on Some People Call Me Aftie by Orlando Escalante

Orlando Escalante — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:03:00 +0000

Have you only taken these types of meds? You may want to try a different type of med that is the right one for you. I am sure you know that there are many kinds of psyc meds. Hopefully you will get that motivation to dance again Aftie.

Comment on The Beginning by Jason

Jason — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:11:28 +0000

You are a very courageous kid and have no reason not to be afraid I know exactly what your talking about I hate sitting in a room or house all by myself because of the voices and hallucinations that come to me every so often, but you can get through it and if you need someone to talk to just email me at Krownsk8er69@aol.com

Comment on My Brother by Terry

Terry — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:00:44 +0000

Dear Jenna,
I don’t know when you posted this message but it breaks my heart to read it.
I have a 23 year old son who was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. The disease has progressively taken over our son’s life over the course of the past 10 years but only became obviously debilitating this past year. It was very difficult to get treatment for him because he did not always think he needed help. We are fortunate in that some of the time he did say he wanted help and we tried to use those moments to encourage him to agree to a treatment process, which would include seeing a psychiatrist and taking medication.
Not to go on and on with a million details but it took several months of broken appts, bad doctor appts etc before we realized that the only way this was going to work was to have our son hospitalized.
You are right that this is difficult without probable cause of harm. It was very emotionally draining, challenging and time consuming to do what we did but here it is:
I took our son to the emergency room and signed some forms saying he was incapable of meking his own decisions on treatment. He refused to sign anything himself but at least he didnt’ try to bolt until after I had signed the paperwork and gotten the staff social worker and psychiatrist to sign off.
They were able to develop a case based off of my statements describing past events and bekhaviors which would indicate loss of touch with reality, auditory hallucinations, impulsive behavior, with enough examples to develop a case.
Hope this helps. Once my son was committed (even though it was not because of suicide attempt) the attending psychiatrist kept him im over a week as he said my son was suffering acute paranoid schizophrenic psychosis. He kept my son in the hospictal until results of medication were showing positive improvement. Thank heaven! I am so thankful that we were finally able to get treatment for our son. I can’t tell you how the story develops as we just brought him home a few days ago. But each day it seems like he is regaining some of his cognitive skills.
Our son is in his 5th year of Chemical Engineering and was at one time a very bright kid. For the past year he has been unable to read or concentrate on anything other than escapist things like video games (not even that in more recent montkhs.
I feel bad for your family knowing that this has been going on with your brother for 10 years with no help.
If there is any way to have him hospitalized for initial treatment, I would highly recommend it. You and your family may have to put a lot of effort into developing a case for it but it definitely sounds like it is needed.
Good luck,
Terry

Comment on I miss my brother by Bram

Bram — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:37:28 +0000

Hey, I saw the title of your piece here and had to open it. I was 13 when I found out my older brother was schizophrenic. Wow, that was 17 years ago. Has it gotten easier over the years? No, not really. As you said he was a best friend of mine when we were kids. I Just wanted to say your words struck me hard, and that I understand what you’re feeling.

Comment on schizophrenia – Its a nightmare by Kendalyn

Kendalyn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:18:45 +0000

there is no such thing as crazy

Comment on Haunted by a voice by Kendalyn

Kendalyn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:45:16 +0000

wow this is interesting… im studing to be a Clinical Psycologist

Comment on The Beginning by Karin

Karin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:17:49 +0000

It takes a lot of courage to talk about your problems. It’s okay to be afraid, lots of people are….but it is not the end of the world.
You will be okay.
Keep pushing on, and keep working on your mind and overcome what you are dealing with.
There are plenty of support groups, and people who are going through exactly what you are… it will be okay.

Comment on Some People Call Me Aftie by Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:14:04 +0000

will you please email me your full story because it is really interesting i am doing a project on it and need it ASAP thank you so much

Comment on Floating In Anchorless Reality by mike

mike — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:12:28 +0000

It sounds like this “controller” is like a “knave”.
What they like to do is attempt to divide you on what you do. Try to choose something that you know is good for you and do it. If the controller howls, stick it to him and do it with a smile. He should get none of your time, that’s yours. They try to attack priniples you may have and goingons during the day. He looses time if you can accomplish undivided activities.
Have faith in what you do. Division is division of time. faith keeps time with you. the controller cannot argue with what you have faith in for long. have no regrets after also.
Drink that wine and ENJOY it! Less time for it. MAke a list when you go shopping and stick with it. All your time is the result.