If a female is schizophrenic?
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You are confusing schizophrenia with Dissociative Identity Disorder (what used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder).  And no, all the personalities wouldn't.  Plus some of the personalities are probably men so they wouldn't PMS at all.
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First off Schizophrenia is a hereditary condition. There is often a trigger for the first episode but your friend could have slipped you stuff every day of your life and if you did not have the genetics for Schitzophenia you would not have developed it. \n\nNor could you choose to develop such a dehabilitating condition. It is in your genetics. Not something you decide to do one day. Somebody blaming you for having episodes is like blaming you for being born with two arms. It just happened, it's not something within your control. \n\nThe military of course had to discharge you. If you were to have an episode while at a machine gun many lives could be lost. Key charactoristics of Schizo behavior is paranoia and hallucinations. Would be quite easy to confuse American troops or Iraqi civillians as insurgents during an episode. \n\nI'm not sure that your community is shunning you for being discharged as much as for you being Schizo. Remember a key defining aspect is paranoia. So many of those who have "shunned" you might have not started out that way but are reacting more to your assumptions about them than anything else. Even in modern society there is a big stigma on Schizophrenics.  While on meds the worst is controlled. Off meds you will be an unpredictable and potentially dangerous disruption. Schizos are notorious for burning down houses, committing random acts of violence and other destructive behavior. Not intentionally but because of paranoid delusions. Schitzos are also well known for getting off their meds because of the severe and frequent side effects of the meds. \n\nI would suggest moving to a more tolerant community and one that's going to help you stay on your meds.  That is the key.  Your life is pretty much over if you wind up getting into the cycle many Schitzos get into with on the meds, then off, then into an institution, then back out strait to the streets. Then eventually back on the meds, then rebuilding something of a life then getting off the meds and destroying that life. Back to an institution to start the whole cycle over again.  \n\nYou qualify for disability and should get on disability. You alway want to build safeguards into your life that enforce you taking your meds. Your meds are your lifeline to society. They are your ability to function and avoid the misery that charactorizes the lives of most Schizos. Most important, your actions when in a state of extreme paranoid delusion may take an innocent life and that will haunt you the rest of your days. So taking your meds is crucial. Staying on them is crucial. You need to build a life that forces you to stay on those meds. That allows for problems which will occasionally come out even while on your meds. Sounds like where you are at right now is a bad place to be. That it will only increase your problems. That is the LAST thing you want.  Low key, low pressure environment is what you want to set up. A certain amount of regimentation. A group empowered to keep you on your meds, get you help when you fall of the meds and watch over your stuff if your locked up for a time. Some folks you can trust even through the paranoia. That will take the effort to make sure your staying on your meds. That you will listen too when they say take your meds. \n\nYou have a hard road ahead of you. I do not envy you. I've watched others go through it. I would not wish it on anyone. Heed my advice and you can save yourself a great deal of sorrow.  The mechanisms of your disease are finally starting to be understood and one day there is hope for a real cure. Until then your meds are your crutch. Your lifeline to the world and a semblence of normalcy and happiness.
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someone who is psychotic is obviously way out of touch with reality. They may be extremely hostile, paranoid, speaking in sentneces that make no sense, agitated, and could possibly become violent, but not always.
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I used to work with people with schizophrenia who were recently discharged from the state hospital and now I am a 4th year clinical psychology grad student.  I would love to give you some interesting (deidentified) cases, but I don't feel comfortable leaving my e-mail here.  You can contact me through my profile.
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I'm a schizophrenic myself; the paranoid type. I'm not a therapist though, so I can't really say if he's schizo or not.\n\nIf he is, then it sounds like he's got issues with women and could potentially dangerous if he doesn't take any medications to combat the symptoms. Meeting him might be a bad idea, if the topic ever comes to pass.
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y dont u take her to some psychiatrist :P
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she needs counseling. go together if you can.
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Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations. Although the disorder is primarily thought to affect cognition, it can also contribute to chronic problems with behavior and emotion. Due to the many possible combinations of symptoms, there is ongoing and heated debate about whether the diagnosis necessarily or adequately describes a disorder, or alternatively whether it might represent a number of disorders. For this reason, Eugen Bleuler deliberately called the disease "the schizophrenias", plural, when he coined the present name.
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There are many different kinds of schizophrenia and I've found everyone is a bit different.  I'm not going to bore everyone with pages of information.  Please go to the NAMI.org website and link to "inform yourself".  Their information on schizophrenia is pretty accurate.  Their emphasis is on "brain disease", and schizophrenia is a brain disease.\n\nAs opposed to personality disorders or disorders caused by abuse or trauma.  Which brings up the cute but clearly ignorant statement someone before said about which one is asking the question.  Schizophrenia is definitely not the same as multiple personality disorder (dissociative identity disorder since the latest DSM was published).  Unfortunately, there are so many people who just can't seem to understand that.  The treatment is very different for those two conditions!
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Ask her about her problem if she has one.
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Be kind to them and be patient with them.  People with schizophrenia are just people who are tormented by hallucinations which are caused by a chemical imbalance.  People with schizophrenia are very rarely violent people, although sadly that's what most people are mislead to think.
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Don't be afraid ,She is nothing but human. \nIf you got any psychiatric problem about opposite sex, Deep breath could be helpful.
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Female......she has brains and can get through childbirth.  Sooner or later she is gonna figure out how to procreate without needing a man.
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Yes.  But only in specific cases with certain illnesses.  I don't want to hear that crap about road rage or whatever the fancy name is nowadays.  Schizophrenia?  Absolutely.  That is a severe mental disorder where your perception of reality is extremely disoriented.  Depression?  Hell no.  Everyone gets depressed.  I was diagnosed with depression (bipolar actually) several years back.  Am I bipolar.  Nope.  It was my life situation that gave me the symtoms. Am I depressed now? Nope.  The only symptom I have is social anxiety.  Is that a reason to commit a crime?  Hell no. I know what is right and what is wrong.   However, when you have schizophrenia, autism, brain damage, or retardation, you don't always understand. Your perception of reality is very skewed, and nine times out of ten, you don't understand the wrongness of your actions, neither the consequnces.
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Her? she is she and she is female.
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Schizophrenia can lead to a lot of things if not medicated...I would worry more if someone was smoking crack than if someone was diagnosed Schizo.  Schizophrenia is a very complex disease and is easily misdiagnosed.  There are lots of great medications that help with some schizoid symptoms.  I don't think murder is high on the list for those suffering from schizophrenia.
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No, she is just mentally ill.