Schizophrenia???!


Question: i was just wondering. i have been hearing a little girl's voice saying my name since i was about six. i was wondering if it was a mild case of schizophrenia?


Answers: i was just wondering. i have been hearing a little girl's voice saying my name since i was about six. i was wondering if it was a mild case of schizophrenia?

Between all the things you have brought up on this answers forum I strongly believe that you need to stop asking us armchair experts and see a Dr. This is said with caring not to be mean. There are just too may things going for us laymen to help with. Please seek professional help. I can't help but believe you will be glad you did. Best of luck.

Not necessarily. Auditory hallucinations can be a symptom of a number of mental disorders, only one of which is paranoid schizophrenia.

Before you go to a psychiatrist to get this checked out, I would suggest that you get a referral to a neurologist to make sure that there is no neurological basis for what you're hearing. He will probably do a brain scan (painless) to see if the electrical impulses in your brain are firing properly and to see if there are any other organic problems. Then if that's clear, then you may want to go to a psychiatrist to get checked out. Best wishes.

don't even joke that you have scitzohrenia..my grandmother has it and you hear things and you believe they are real...Like these people will tell you to do stuff and than that person will go out and do it...Also for the most part anyone with scitzophrenia doesn't realize they have it they think that they are perfecctly fine

Maybe its a ghost? Have you lived in the same house since you were little?

My sister is schizophrenia and when she does hear voices, there are allot of them.

i,m not sure but why haven,t you seen a doctor tell some one now get help

you better go to a psychiatrist. sometimes people mistaken schizophrenia for a brain tumor...talk to a psych first and see what they think.

Schizophrenia GENERALLY does not develop until later in life, unless it was brought on by head trauma.

The problem is, and the nerm responses don't help, is that schizophrenia starts to "re-draw" your memories going backwards. It will place situations, feelings, and events in your past that simply don't exist.

The problem, as with most hallucinations, is there is no person you can go to that can verify the nature of any of these perceptions.SZ does NOT always come on suddenly, it is often a degenerative condition.

Now back to the actual question. Is this voice tied to your emotional state, or is it just your name that is said? Do you have the other "basic" symptons: attention span issues (i mean ones that cause you to end up lost or not know where you live, etc), belief that you are blessed or cursed, inability to respond to people in a reasonable (in their opinion) manner, fear of things you never had a reason for, belief that you are cosmically tied in to others, etc. (and before you people go off on traditional 13 symptoms, most of those are IMPOSSIBLE for the patient to see...)

"Mild" schizophrenia is life-affecting. If you are having trouble with basic things, hygiene, keeping a job, maintaing friendships (i mean at all...), then you should consider at least seeing a pdoc as a consultation.

SZ is not a single symptom, but a lot of the symptoms can be hidden to the person who suffers from it. If it is just your name, and the severity and/or the frequency isn't really changing(and isn't very frequent already), it is more likely to be something else..

Have you tried asking what it is she wants or told her to leave you alone?

It may well be a schizotypal disorder, but it requires expert diagnosis. Because it doesn't appear to have a major impact on your life, so far, I'd avoid prescription medications, at first, using the alternative treatments, in sections 10, 40, or 2, of http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris depending on that diagnosis, to see if you can cope, without the risks, and side effects attendant to psychopharmaceuticals. (FROM: http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/a... ):

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Some research suggests that if you put a rubber band around your wrist and snap it each time the distressing voices start, they will decrease in intensity and/or frequency.

Some people have found it particularly helpful to use "I statements". For instance, if a voice begins to tell me I am a whore, worthless, no good, etc. I can say out loud, "Right now I feel worthless, I feel like I am not good, I feel I am a whore", etc. This is very different than saying "the voices say I'm no good, a whore, worthless" etc. In this strategy I say what I am hearing and own it as my thought and when I do this the voices don't have to keep reminding me of it and they quiet down.

Keep a record. Some people have found it helpful to keep a record of the time, place, day and what they were doing just before the voices start up. By keeping a record for a few weeks you may begin to see a pattern. For instance you may begin to notice that your voices start up after visits to your family, after being in crowds, just before work, only when you use alcohol, etc. Once you notice a pattern you can avoid those situations and thereby eliminate the voices related to those situations.

Try some music. Research has shown that for some people using a Walkman? and listening to your favorite music can help diminish the intensity of voices. Interestingly, it's not that loud volume "drowns out the voices". Rather, what seems important is that your attention is focused on music you like. Thus, if you really like Metallica but only have a Brahms concerto to play on your walkman, no matter how loud you listen to Brahms it probably won't diminish your voices. So make sure you are listening to music that engages your attention and that you really like!

Don't forget that physical factors can effect the voice hearing experience. For instance, some people find that they hear voices that are particularly distressing when they have a fever or when they are pre-menstrual. Others find voice hearing gets worse after using alcohol, street drugs or over-the-counter drugs such as caffeine, sugar, antihistamines (cold medicines that cause drowsiness, such as Contact, Drixoral), etc. Knowing your body's reaction to fever, PMS, over-the-counter drugs, street drugs and other physical conditions can help you both predict when voices may be most distressing and help you eliminate these factors or at least be able to predict the length of time you will feel acutely distressed. For instance you could say "each time I drink alcohol my voices get worse, so I will stop drinking alcohol" or you might say "each time I am pre-menstrual my voices get worse so I know this will only last for several days and I will arrange for extra support from my friends each month during this time".





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