“Stop what you’re doning, don’t do anything. Stay in your bed all day.”
“Living in the city and having schizophrenia is interesting, just because I do hear voices as I’m walking down the street. So in my head I’m thinking of the person talking to me. But then, I start talking back to the person. And then, maybe I’ll snap out of it, look around, and like five people are staring at me. But mostly I kind of just get plagued.”
“It’s broken down into three separate categories, positive, negative, and cognitive. Positive symptoms don’t mean they’re a good thing. It’s an add-on to your normal behavior, things like hallucinations, delusions, and voices.”
“-You know, I had so many ghosts and shadows inside of my mind. -A demon was perching on the end of my bed. -Negative symptoms take away from your behavior. -I showed no emotion and I was just totally out of it. -Cognitive symptoms make it hard to pay attention and hard to focus. -Your brain is just racing. It can’t stop.”
“People think that just because you’re on medicine that the voices will completely stop. But you just can’t stop the voices.”
“-Who’s gonna win, who’s gonna win. When I take my medicine, the good side wins.”
“And that was like the best thing that ever happened to me, because he got me on the right medication and I feel as good as I can possibly feel right now.”
“I had so many ghosts and shadows inside of my mind.”
“Talk to as many people as you can. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t be judgmental.”
“I see a psychiatrist every other week. And we just kind of talk about things that are going on. Mostly I just share really silly stories with him and we just laugh a lot, when really he’s measuring just my mood. That’s what I know that he’s doing.”
“-It’s more just zoning out. As long as I’m not thinking of negative, horrible things. -My soul was leaking out of my body. -I just saw a human being, empty.”
“I’m good.”
