I recently responded to a request for experience strength and hope in dealing with toxic families who have mental illnesses and possible personality disorders. This is what I said: “I have a fair bit of experience with mental illness as it runs in my family of origin (depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia) plus I have [...]
Archive for the ‘Schizophrenia’ Category
Stay Away from Mentally Ill?
Posted in 12 Step, Addiction, Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, Relationships, Schizophrenia, Self Help/Support Groups, Thoughts, tagged agressive friends, agressive mentally ill, anxiety, bipolar disorder, Borderline personality disorder, depressed person, destructive mental illness, detaching from mentally ill, Disorders, Health, helping mentally ill, how to help mentally ill, major depressive illness, manipulative friends, manipulative mentally ill, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, mentally ill friend, Support group on October 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Schizophrenia Researchers Welcome New Blood
Posted in Mental Health News, Schizophrenia, tagged blood and schizophrenia, mental illness and infants, schizophrenia and infants, schizophrenia and vitamin D, schizophrenia research, scizophrenia and babies on August 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute are set to conduct a world first trial into the link between prenatal vitamin D levels and schizophrenia. Funded by the NHMRC and led by QBI’s Dr Darryl Eyles, a team of four researchers will study blood spots taken from newborn babies who have gone on to develop schizophrenia in [...]
Hallucinations
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, Schizophrenia, tagged auditory hallucinations, bipolar disorder, bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder, dellusions, hallucinations, hypomania, Schizophrenia on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hallucinations may occur in any of the senses: auditory (for example, hearing voices or music), gustatory (for example, unpleasant tastes), olfactory (for example, unpleasant smells), somatic (for example, a feeling of “electricity”), tactile (for example, a sensation of being touched, or “skin crawling” sensations), visual (for example, flashes of light, colors or images). Delusions (fixed, false, [...]
Smoking & Mental Illness
Posted in Schizophrenia, tagged mental illness and smoking, Sane Smokefree Zone Kit, Schizophrenia, smoking on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know about you but I like to have a cigarette once in a while to calm my nerves. Cigarettes bring me up when I am feeling down. But according to Sane Australia, some chemicals in cigarettes may affect the positive and negative symtoms of Schizophrenia and as a consequence, sufferers may need their [...]
