Living with Schizophrenia

Pam
3 min readJul 27, 2021
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

Good evening and thank you for reading, If this image came up on your wall you’re in for a treat. I normally, don’t open up to people about my problem but since my case gets worse and worse I thought that, it would be best to open up about how I deal with my Scizophernia. Basically, It’s a disorder that a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation. I was diagnosed with when I was 14 years old. Since then I’ve been under treatment and been taking prescribed medications for the past 11 years. Now you’re probably thinking, “does it get better in due time?” In all honesty It don’t ever since I transitioned moving from California to Texas It’s been a huge transition and It’s just getting worse and worse. Being Schizophrenic Is not the best feeling in the world. It’s like when you hear people telling you commands that you don’t feel comfortable doing to just even getting used to new people.

What sucks the most is that, I got hospitalized last year in California due to my severe episode and I was on hold for almost 72 hours. Luckily, I got out the same night however, being in that room with the other patients of mental health scared me to death. On either…

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Pam

Born and raised in sunny California. Online college Student. A songwriter at heart.