Schizophrenia stresses many aspects of ones life, and family is no different. My disorder has strained many of my family relationships and contributed to my estrangement from many of my relatives. It has also lead me to develop many new relationships outside of my family, for which I am grateful.

Schizophrenic or Person with Schizophrenia, which to use? Personally I use both but prefer Schizophrenic. I respect psychotic people’s choice in the matter, and don’t judge people no matter what type of language they choose to identify with. Here, I discuss my reasoning behind my preferences.

What does growing up with Schizophrenia do to your perception of yourself socially? For me, it made it much more difficult for me to function in the adult social social world, but I’ve been working to overcome the challenges set by my early life. Thanks to my wonderful friends and mentors at school, and I rebuilding social self esteem.

Abusive Staff. Involuntary Medication. Lying Doctor. It was a terrible encounter but experiences like this are part of what has given me the drive to do what I do now. I hope this podcast can shed a light on what can happen behind the closed doors of a mental hospital, and keep in mind what happened to me is fairly minor compared to what a lot of people go through.

How I learned to deal with hearing voices, from my first attempts in adolescence to what I learned in therapy. Also, I misspoke, the music hallucinations were in 10/2018, not 2019. *This is not medical advice, consult your psychiatrist or licensed therapist before trying any mental health advice*

What are religious delusions like? What does hearing blasphemous voices do to a person? Well, I’ll explain. I had religious psychosis for many years and it wasn’t pleasant, as I I describe in this podcast.

I suffered from mania for many years, primarily from my teens to the beginning of my twenties. My manic psychosis has ranged from fantastic and almost fun to nearly deadly. Here I discuss some of my experiences and express my desire for greater support for the Bipolar populations.

Throughout my adolescence I suffered from all of the Big Three: anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. My psychosis interacted with my eating disorders in interesting ways, primarily through paranoia and somatic hallucinations. I hope this podcast can shine a light on a little looked at comorbidity.

Here I recall my experiences with extreme dissociation and dissociative identity disorder with regards to my psychosis. I suffered from extreme dissociation in the past, ranging from derealization and depersonalization to full-on DID, from which I am now recovered. All of these illnesses interacted with my psychosis in unique ways, which I explore in this podcast.

In this episode I discuss how to deal with self esteem issues stemming from a psychotic disorder, both from psychotic symptoms and disability caused by psychosis. I talk about my own experience and what methods worked for me to improve my self esteem surrounding my psychotic disorder.