What do you know about schizoprenia and do you know anyone who has it?
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I think it’s depression related…
but I would be interested in knowing about it too
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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it difficult to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences, to think logically, to have normal emotional responses, and to behave normally in social situations.
More on : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001925/
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Many girls probably have this syndrome... lol (:
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My Mamu has had it since his early twenties but it wasnt diagnosed until shortly before he commited an awful crime. He's been in a prison like hospital for the last 11 years.
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What do you know about schizoprenia and do you know anyone who has it?
I dont know anything about it so mairey reply k bharosey per nahi rehna....
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schizophrenia is a dissociative disorder and it's a conglomerate of various symptoms, characterized by feelings of persecution, paranoia, disorganized thought and speech. it can also have symptoms of catatonia (no speech or movement. you're just lying there). the characteristic behavior is what we think of as a "pagal" person. behki behki baatain, acting all crazy etc. in men it usually manifests in their teens and women around their 20's. it has nothing to do with depression. it's a biological disorder and can run in families. there is treatment available for it, but the best cure or well...controlling of it is by medication + therapy
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My Mamu has had it since his early twenties but it wasnt diagnosed until shortly before he commited an awful crime. He's been in a prison like hospital for the last 11 years.
I am sorry to heart that but how was his reaction to life and etc? Plz share...
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boooooooooring docs! u should just watch me myself and irene to find out what it is 
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My mother has had schizophrenia for the past 16 years and people don't get it. Especially our brown community, they think along the lines of "pagal" or "jins". Medication doesn't always work on them, and in my mothers case, she refuses to take her meds therefore has no balance of her thoughts. She has had so many different phases of where she assumes someone is trying to kill her or that we are her enemies. These days she is constantly writing quran ayah's and sticking them on her wall. her wall is covered with papers, with different ayaahs but everyday she throws them out in the garbage and writes new ones. Then she suspects that her quran is wrong, then throws the quran away and gets a new one. Basically she sees someone who she talks to all the time and hears voices and sees things. There is nothing one can say or do to make them think otherwise.
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in the brown community there is no concept of mental health anyways. unless something happens to them personally, they don't get it. even then it's hard to imagine that they don't blame it on anything else but the fact that it's a problem.
i'm so sorry to hear that madinahme. i can't imagine how hard it must be for you. do you have any support groups you can visit sometimes? i assume you're in toronto so maybe you'll be able to find some. as for her medication i assume it's because of the side effects. a lot of the times patients stop taking them because they feel it makes them slow and their thoughts slow. but again, very sorry to hear that =/
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My mother has had schizophrenia for the past 16 years and people don't get it
may allah guide you all on to the right path and give you sabr in this difficult trial....ameen
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I am sorry to heart that but how was his reaction to life and etc? Plz share...
He was very quiet, didnt contribute much to any conversation, didnt like going anywhere. He once told my mum that there was some lady who was following him when he went out somewhere, he told her this had happened before too. He was paranoid. He was very closed off emotionally. His daughter, my cousin, she died when she was 13, and he expressed no emotion after her passing away, he never cried or lamented or seemed upset. Obviously he was, but he was unable to express it. But despite all of this, i have good memories of him. He's very depressed now and talks a lot of wanting to die. It's sad.
And yeah exactly what madinahme said, the desi community has no understanding of mental illness, nor particualrly wishes to it seems. most of my relatives just think of my mamu as being pagal. They just see things in black and white.
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or a beautiful mind.
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My Mamu has had it and it enhanced after my grandfathers death. My mom tells me that she remembers him being/ acting strange when they were young, however, there wasn't much you could doo. For example, when he was about 8, they were having a small dinner party for which my grandfather ordered a cake. He wasn't letting my Mamu eat it so he (my mamu) became angry and locked himself in the kitchen and starting throwing his hands in the cake and screaming at everybody. After my mom became a doctor she realized this was something serious and needed to be dealt with long time ago.
Now fast forward about 25 years, to the death of my grandfather. All hell broke loose with my mamu. He blamed my Khalu for killing my grandfather, when he actually died of a heart attack. He started seeing my grandfathers body in the street. Then he put everything of grandfathers in a trunk and burned it.
Everyone tries to keep him happy, because that is the only way to keep him stable. So the house runs exactly how he wants it. Like he doesn't like locks because he becomes suspicious that someone is hiding something. No loud noises. And he loves toy trains so my mom keeps him busy by sending different parts so he keeps building and building.
My prayers to everyone who faces this within their families.
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i am sorry to hear this but i know someone very close who had schizophrenia and have gone through the worst phase of her life. basiclly everything that all of you guys mentioned happened to her too i am not gona repeat those things.
Her condition was extremely bad but she got treatment and now alhumdolilah she is perfectly fine though still on few meds which she needs to take...
so the point is all of you who are saying that there is no cure and nothing can be done for schizophrenia patients are wrong.
Beside proper treatment, they need care and love and attention...
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It'sjust one of those things that literally take over a persons life along with their families. It's hard to help someone who assumes they are perfectly normal.
My Mum thinks she is some one sent from God and that she sees and knows things and her phases change after sometime.
Beautiful Mind is a great movie to understand this illness
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It is very interesting that across the board, many symptoms are very same. It is a very difficult disease to cure. Early age of onset has worse prognosis.
Main feature is delusion.
Like: "The govt. has planted bug in TV, and watching". :(
At times something triggers like death of a loved one, or an accident.
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thats so true…death triggered many negative emotions within my hubby…
but the kids find it hard to understand,and say you have started to put everything down to this being an illness,and not nature… 
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it's awful. My heart goes out to anyone who has a family member with something like this. I see cancer and disabilities patientsand it's sad but atleast they know they are ill.
I can't believe i'm saying this but sometimes I can't bare it. She refuses to take her medication and by law she can't be forced and then the things she says and does are unbarable. it's not just what she says or does, its how she gets abusive. I can't live with it and I want her out of my life but that makes me feel so guilty because she is my Mum and this is her illness.
I think my problem is that I don't understand or accept her illness because she seems so "normal"
I'm losing my mind