Really freaked out been dealing woth odd symptoms for long time website matches my symptoms schitzophrenia?

Question

Ok, I know this sounds a little weid to be asking this time of the night, but I am a bit concerned after reading what I saw on the site. Most of the symptoms that were listed match my symptoms except for daytime hallucination. Symptoms included prolonged feelings of tension

sleeplessness

poor concentration

social withdrawal

personality change

These have always been issues for me and have never made a friend in my life (except for maybe when i was 5 years old playdate) now there aren't any friends except for my parents. Anyway, I am one week off the lexapro and the thinking with verbal communication is a bit improved. However, I am losing touch with my location constantly and forgetting where I am. Also, I am not crazy about disclosing this, but I tend to talk to myself a lot. I have been diagnosed with Aspergers for a long time, but it seems that there is something else to the story. Anyway, this was the one disorder doc never thought of with me, even though I was on risperdall for a short period. Also last thing, I am not getting daytime hallucinations, but there are some whispers at times before I am going to sleep. Not actually seeing an imaginary person in my view. Please help me Any advice would be great. Thank you

Answer 1

Never discontinue any medication without your doctor's approval. About a decade ago I tried to stop taking my tegretol at the time and stelazine because I thought the pills were making me mentally ill. Could not sleep at all. For days. I'd lay down, close my eyes, and lay still. For hour after hour, even 8 hours. Not even get close to sleeping. Made me crazy. So I took them and about 3 or 4 hours was sleeping like a baby. I'm up this late because I'm a night person, but I sleep just fine in the morning...though it takes awhile to fall asleep. Hopefully relating this personal experience to you has some bearing on your current problem.

Sounds like you need to tell your doctor and get back on some medication. There are primarily three times of schizophrenia not counting the hybrids between two types: paranoid, hebephrenic, catatonic. The first one is the most common and symptoms include thought insertion, that you can transmit your thoughts to others so they can read your mind, thought-stealing, and many other symptoms of a paranoid nature. It is the most common mental illness affecting 1% of the population. Second, hebephrenic makes you act and think like a small child of about 5 years of age. Third, you just sit and stare. Without feeding tubes you die of dehydration or starve.