My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic. I've only seen her off her medication once. It was the most disturbing and scariest time of my life.

I hope you are okay, but please, please, please, make sure you don't loose control of yourself.

Posted by worried on Friday, 07/6/07 - 11:19pm

ya.. just dont lose urself to the voices... =)

Posted by asd on Saturday, 07/7/07 - 9:49pm

I'm sure they're not as bad as everyone thinks
Considered having conversations with them?

Posted by Kat on Friday, 07/20/07 - 1:23am

i have severe adhd and i know how horrible medication can be. When im on my meds, I'm a shadow of myself. It's as if someone put a safesearch on my brain that filters out every thought that isn't "normal". These filtered out crazy thoughts, however, are often the ones laden with creativity. I know that hearing voices is quite differant than an attention disorder, but I still can relate on the level that I hate myself when i'm medicated.

Posted by bella on Saturday, 07/28/07 - 11:37am

I understand completely. Well done =]

Posted by C on Friday, 08/3/07 - 3:43pm

Right on!!!

I have ADHD too, and aderall is nothing but a personality killer. I love playing (and am quite good at) the piano. But when I was on aderall, the piano was nothing but a set of white and black keys.

While everyone is focusing on racial discrimination, mind discrimination is running rampant. I wonder how many brilliant children are "cured" each year because they're brains refuse to concentrate on the meaningless drivel that is public education.

Posted by Dingbat on Saturday, 08/4/07 - 12:49am

good job : )
its always good to feel like yourself.

Posted by on Saturday, 09/8/07 - 9:06pm

I was in the hospital once, I thought I was doing OK. The machines told me what was happening, I could see the cameras they used to spy on me. (One camera must have cost 30 billion dollars!) I could hear the gunshots from the assassins in the hallways. I knew they had already killed my family. The whole situation was on the nightly news. --- When the medicine started working, life became easier. Its been harder to think, but *I'm* in control now and I'm working on becoming a sculptor. My creativity is different, possibly better. I'm so glad I didn't keep the voices.

Posted by Heard voices on Monday, 10/29/07 - 1:39am

Have you seen the movie 'a beautiful mind' ?

Posted by BTS on Thursday, 12/27/07 - 1:39pm

I wish I had friends/voices like that.

Posted by Jealous on Thursday, 02/28/08 - 5:32am

I don't believe in adhd. I had it for a long time. Then I turned off my tv and stopped watching videos although (this includes youtube). Now I can concentrate more. There's a reason why these diseases are new.

I'm all for people being different. You hear voices and like it. Good for you. As long as you're not a threat to yourself or anyone else, why should you be on meds? Who's to say hearing voices is a bad thing. I'm crazy too. More power to crazy people!

Posted by UmNo on Saturday, 04/5/08 - 3:50am

when i was a child my only friend was a pebble.

Posted by leo on Wednesday, 04/9/08 - 11:59pm

when i was a yungen i slapped my ma.pretty much ever day. and im dam proud of it.

Posted by cleatus on Thursday, 04/10/08 - 12:09am

a psych at my university tried to put me on meds for severe depression. I thought it was bullshit, he did it right after the assessment (after two sessions) without even asking me any questions or bothering to find out WHY I'm depressed. Lazy asshole. I told him I was feeling AAAALL better and I dumped him. I've been really depressed and suicidal, since, but I'd rather deal with my insomnia, suicidal tendencies and other low periods than spend my happy moments as a gray, boring, old shoe. I told my friends and parents when the doc wrote me the prescription..all of my friends who cared about me said that they were there for me for my low periods and that I didn't need that junk. My mother wanted me to take them meds so that I'd get along better with my sister (who I tend to avoid, she stresses me out. plus, we live separately in a big city.) My mother later came to her senses and apologized after seeing an article that Prozac (etc) is basically snake oil/can make you feel WORSE. I just try and eat more vitamin B's to keep my mood stable.

So rock on with your voices, just don't cause harm to other people, or yourself (unless you really want to.) (hey, it be hippocritical of me to command you not to hurt yourself.)

Posted by girl on Thursday, 04/10/08 - 6:32am

Well I think you should keep doing that. Whatever makes you happy. It's not like anyone can tell. Personally, I think that you are very lucky. I wish someone would talk to me.

Posted by anonymous on Wednesday, 04/23/08 - 5:27pm

I'm not afraid of my voices or hallucinations. I don't consider them to be dangerous, they are just a part of me. I recognize them as a symptom of my condition, but I do have friends who are terrified by them to the point of being heavily medicated. I like myself better unmedicated, except for when I get depressed. The doctor is in too big a rush to see the next patient to recognize that I'm not telling the truth when she asks me if I hear or see things other people don't. The last med they put me on for that actually made me hallucinate far worse than I ever did before.

Posted by bipolar me on Sunday, 06/22/08 - 10:46pm

I wish I had voices in my head cuz i often times get bored and want someone to talk to but I completely understand.

Posted by joe on Thursday, 07/31/08 - 2:31am

I hear voice sometimes as well. Never got put on meds for them though, because i had the sense not to tell anyone. Sometimes, ill make up my own voices and lose myself somewhere, thinking everything out. Then again, i passed the gifted testing with flying colors, so keep going dude and you could do well in life. hearing voices or feeling down shouldnt drag you down. been there, done that.

Posted by D on Friday, 10/24/08 - 6:01pm