• Am I becoming Schizophrenic?
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Dear Facepunch. I'm writing this to you as I'm pondering what has gone wrong with my life. Right now I'm on student exchange, I am super homesick, however I do not want to leave Canada, I'm becoming severely depressed, and I really would want to go home, however I feel like if I do, I will just get worse. Right now everything seems split into two choices: To care because I've got 76 days to go, and to stay, or to not give a shit and go home, and get help. My friends here say that I've changed a lot ever since Christmas, which was when my first onset of homesickness attacked me, and just gone downhill ever since. Now I party every weekend, get wasted and get high from weed, every.single.weekend. Is what I am doing normal for being a 17 year old guy, or should I just go home and seek medical help? Also, I forgot to mention, I used to be on Prozac until I went on exchange, I also used to see a psychiatrist every month, and a psychologist every week, because i was severely depressed. I stopped cold turkey on the Prozac, and I'm not sure how this will help by mentioning but I decided it may.
You are not becoming schizophrenic. If you were you would be hallucinating and thinking people are out to get you and stuff. My guess is that you have severe "homesick-ness". Maybe you should cut down on the partying and just relax every other weekend or so. that might help.
[QUOTE=D0C H.;21439296]You are not becoming schizophrenic.[/QUOTE] Ah, -Snip- Cause you added more info. Thanks Doc. I'd like to add more info, about stuff that recently happened, but I can't because its too personal and i know some friends in school have facepunch, and they would probably be dicky about it.
No, you're not becoming schizophrenic. You aren't displaying any symptoms of schizophrenia. Hell, schizophrenia doesn't even typically manifest itself until you're 19-25. You're just another teenager. Don't self diagnose.
you're not even showing any signs of schizophrenia.
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;21439343]No, you're not becoming schizophrenic. You aren't displaying any symptoms of schizophrenia. Hell, schizophrenia doesn't even typically manifest itself until you're 19-25. You're just another teenager. Don't self diagnose.[/QUOTE] Alright, Cause I've heard that some of these symptoms are due to schizophrenia, I really had no clue. My sister was diagnosed with bi-polarity and mild schizophrenia when she was 14, but I haven't spoken to her for years.
Everybody is bipolar these days. I doubt she was truly schizophrenic at 14.
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;21439446]Everybody is bipolar these days. I doubt she was truly schizophrenic at 14.[/QUOTE] she was put in a psycheward for a month if i recall correctly. at the time it was a "hospital" as my parents called it. She saw "ghosts" and shit and it was quite scary. I dunno if she is ok now. All i know is that she has very bad anxiety to leave the house cause of the "ghosts" that used to be.
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;21439343]No, you're not becoming schizophrenic. You aren't displaying any symptoms of schizophrenia. Hell, schizophrenia doesn't even typically manifest itself until you're 19-25. You're just another teenager. Don't self diagnose.[/QUOTE] Schizophrenic breaks can happen as young as 13. My ex wife has it and that's when it all started for her. Source - 6 years of experience of taking care of a schizophrenic.
[QUOTE=Kakburken;21439267]however I do not want to leave Canada,[/QUOTE] I can explain this. Once you visit Canada we put something in your water to make you want to not leave. That way anything you may or may not have heard/seen stays in our country. We don't want the whole world to know that the [sp]C.N tower is really a nuke aimed at the US [/sp]
Well I'm a paranoid schizophrenic, but, you know what they say...
[QUOTE=Kakburken;21439267]Dear Facepunch. I'm writing this to you as I'm pondering what has gone wrong with my life. Right now I'm on student exchange, I am super homesick, however I do not want to leave Canada, I'm becoming severely depressed, and I really would want to go home, however I feel like if I do, I will just get worse. Right now everything seems split into two choices: To care because I've got 76 days to go, and to stay, or to not give a shit and go home, and get help. My friends here say that I've changed a lot ever since Christmas, which was when my first onset of homesickness attacked me, and just gone downhill ever since. Now I party every weekend, get wasted and get high from weed, every.single.weekend. Is what I am doing normal for being a 17 year old guy, or should I just go home and seek medical help? Also, I forgot to mention, I used to be on Prozac until I went on exchange, I also used to see a psychiatrist every month, and a psychologist every week, because i was severely depressed. I stopped cold turkey on the Prozac, and I'm not sure how this will help by mentioning but I decided it may.[/QUOTE] That's not any form of schizophrenia, don't worry. The closest it is to anything would be mild depression, but I don't think you'd be clinically diagnosed with it. I reckon you're just going through a rough spot. Good luck getting out of it!
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