Questioning schizospec culture is being sort of cotard's but not really. Like I live life assuming I'm dead and get surprised when smth reminds me that I'm not. Also genuinely fully believing I was a vampire for a good few years when I was younger.
waves. iirc you are schizospec. sorry if this is rude but are there any signs/symptoms you could tell me that helped you find out??? just bc i keep having weird stuff happen to me & idk if it's real or not, so i'm looking into different conditions to cover my bases /nf /sorry if this is a bad question
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Ay, it’s alright. Honestly I say this is a good question to be asking.
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For me the major telling sign has been psychosis & delusions, along with really bad paranoia at nearly all times.
Psychosis & delusions have always come for me in the form of being convinced I was being watched by entities or that someone was stalking me. I get super paranoid about it and start checking over my shoulder constantly looking for the thing(s) that is watching me, and I can genuinely feel myself being watched even though nothing is there. Or, like last year, that the government/ICE were gonna come get my ass and that they were monitoring me and my family (which falls under the whole being watched thing but it’s its own brand).
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Here’s some articles on psychosis & delusions just in case ya wanna check em out:
Psychosis refers to symptoms that happen when a person is disconnected from reality. It may involve hallucinations or delusions, and it can
In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant presents the existence of the noumenon (the thing-in-itself) and subsequent phenomenon: the "thing" as
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Also, another thing that I very quickly realized is a symptom is the fact that (usually during psychosis), I feel like something is speaking to me through my thoughts.
Apparently, that is a form of auditory hallucinations (which doesn’t make sense to me because I’m not actually hearing them but we ball).
Quite honestly though I don’t seem to have many other hallucinations besides what seems to be occasional olfactory hallucinations, presence hallucinations, and other types of auditory hallucinations- though that’s likely to change as I get older.
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Here’s some complimentary articles on olfactory & auditory hallucinations too (I can’t find any on presence hallucinations):
Auditory hallucinations happen when you hear voices or noises that aren’t there. They have many possible causes from both temporary and chro
Phantosmia is when you detect smells that aren’t actually there. To get rid of phantosmia, you have to treat the underlying cause.
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I can also direct you to some blogs that would be able to answer questions better if you would like (endo safe ones specifically :))
Also also, don’t take everything I’ve said as 100% accurate. I’m still figuring things out and it’s a complicated subject quite honestly.
Psychotic with depression (& chronic fatigue) culture is getting delusions something you did is bad or that there’s something bad happening that you could fix, but being too tired and depressed to change it bc it takes too much energy. Still scared shitless & im convinced this bad thing is happening/going to happen but fuck i dont have the energy for this. And I just kinda resign myself to the impending doom
[delusion description] has happened multiple times, but for one example… a bit ago i was convinced every single thing i typed or did on a device was being tracked and record by ai and sent to the government, and there were things i could do to try to stop it… but i was just. So tired. Like “fuck it i guess the government knows everything i say and is gonna publicly execute me because im queer. Oh well, sucks but i dont have the energy to stop it. Guess ill die”
schizospec culture is unintentionally clocking something a friend/loved one says/does as a symptom of psychosis and/or delusions, but they seem genuinely unaware & have very little knowledge of psychology in general, and wanting to tell them so that we can work thru it together but being afraid of scaring them or accidentally pushing them away...
schizoaffective culture is being brave enough to change medications but the phone keeps ringing…and ringing… even though the phone is out of the room. Even when I see the blank screen. It won’t stop ringing