Is there a mental illness for thinking someones watching you and at times speaking with them. Besides Paranoid personality disorder. Just wondering.
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(Paranoid) Schizophrenia
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Dude, you may have a serious psychiatric condition.  Seek help.
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Yes, their was always voices in my head, but then i was diagnosed with schizophrenia.lol
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I talk to myself all the time.  I sometimes do it at stores...you wont believe the odd looks I get from people.  I can't help it though...I just find myself thinking out loud.  I don't know why I do it either.  I have always talked to myself.  I've heard said that if you respond to yourself then you are truly crazy...I'm waiting for them to take me away...it could happen anytime....*looks around worried*
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It doesn't sound like schizophrenia to me.  Sounds like a personality trait that might have been helped by her stress of growing up with an unreliable and unsupportive father (because of his illness).
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You have probably met & befriended several people who had a mental illness but, because you didn't know they had a mental illness, you probably had no problem socializing or being a friend. Because you know this person has a mental illness, you are focusing on that and it is causing your discomfort. \n\nThe thing to remember is that, just like any other illness, it is not something that a person chooses to have.  No one is responsible for the feelings they have - we are only responsible for the way we behave in response to those feelings.  Hopefully this person's therapy at the hospital has given him or her help in coping with the illness and doing a better job of dealing with life.  I would hope that you could give this person the benefit of the doubt and treat him or her just as you would anyone who is recovering from an illness. Don't focus on the issue that it is a "mental" illness.  Just meet this person on the same basis you would meet any one else.  If your SO is truly "significant" to you, you should do all that you can to help the SO and family maintain a loving & supportive relationship with this family member.
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Yes, i've meet a few in my day.  And almost anyone who has gone to jail, is considered to have this disorder.  The personality is that of charisma, slyness, and have the qualities of  a con artist.  They hate rules and think they can get around them, like its the goal in life.  If the light is red, they'll go, if it's raining they'll walk outside kind of stuff.  Everyone and thing is against them and they have to prove them wrong.  Pretty interesting people, but don't turn around long enough so they can stab you in the back.
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Persecution complex, you are thinking of the term "paranoia." \n\nExcessively living in the past could be either obsessive/compulsive or depression.
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I don't think there's a single word for it, because there are any number of reasons why the person could want that, and what it's called depends on that reason.  A few possibilities...\n\nFaking sick or hoping to be sick to get out of doing something (like going to school or work) is called malingering.\n\nThere's a mental illness called Munchausen's syndrome, in which the patient will make herself sick or injured to get attention from doctors.  A person with Munchausen's may also hope that they really will get seriously sick or injured as that would get them the attention they want.  Even if they don't make themselves sick on purpose but hope they'll get sick so they get attention, that could also be considered a symptom of Munchausen's.\n\nIf they're hoping to be sick/injured because they actually enjoy physical pain, that's masochism.\n\nIf they want it to be serious because they want to die, that would be suicidal behavior.  Even if they don't want to die, but just want to kind of self destruct or implode, that could be a sign of depression.\n\nI can't think of any more reasons of the top of my head, but if you can think of any more I could probably come up with diagnoses to go with them :)
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Hihihi... you have paranoia now, right?\nWatch out cause THEY will create your psychological profile from your questions and anwers and chase you down... get you buy up all their stuff!\n\n:-))\n\nHehe, nice theory, anyway! Congrats.\nYou actually have a point, man... I will watch over my answers and questions from now on! Oh-oh-oh!
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Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives. People with this disorder tend to have excessive trust in their own knowledge and abilities and usually avoid close relationships with others. They search for hidden meanings in everything and read hostile intentions into the actions of others. They are quick to challenge the loyalties of friends and loved ones and often appear cold and distant to others. They usually shift blame to others and tend to carry long grudges.
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you do hear voices in your head when you have schizophrenia. My brother has it. You also have a lot of paranoia. It's like a break from reality, it's NOT multiple personality disorder. You might need to see a doctor.
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This is called "body dysmorphic disorder". It basically summarizes a person who obsesses about their appearance for a long period of time.\n\nAlthough this is normal, some of the behavior you describe sounds very severe, and seems to fit the symptons of this disorder.
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It means psychosis.  You need to see a psychiatrist.  There are medications that can help you.
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Yeah, have heard of this before, believe it or not.\n\nThe word you're looking for is co-dependency.\n\nIt isn't an official mental illness, though, it's more of a bastardized mental illness that the psychiatric community gave up researching and studying because they just couldn't find out what caused it, which explains why there is no knowledge of it in our society, and people who have it like this man are instead called "lazy" or "mama's boys".\n\nMy uncles and other people in my own family have had this illness and it is for real.\n\nLike I said, the roots of it are very complex and it is hard to treat, but treatment for it has to start with psychiatric counselling for a long time, and possibly anti-anxiety medications as well.\n\nFor men like this one, it is almost always a result of not having a father or other man in their lives to teach them to be strong and independent for themselves, so they never learn the skills they need to cope and just rely on someone else to take care of them, almost always their mother.\n\nAll I can say as to what help this man should get is to find a good psychiatrist or psychologist, or to find a support group for people with low-grade or unspecific mental illnesses in the phone book or on the web, and more importantly pray for him, and get his brother or mom to find a priest or pastor for him to talk to and confide in as well.
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I agree that they are 2 different disorders, however there are people who have been diagnosed with both of these disorders. Another more likely possibility is that  your friend realizes that there  is much more stigma and fear  and lack of understanding for schizophrenia than there is for bipolar, and so chooses to categorize himself as having the more "socially acceptable" diagnosis.
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During a training excercise, all the theraptsts and social workers had to put headphones on that mimicked what it was like to be a schizophrenic who was having delusions.  There were voices that were audible saying all kinds of things making it very hard to differentiate what was really being said to you and what was "in your head".  My brother says it is very distacting, confusing and sometimes scary. The voices they hear, and delusions, are as real as anything.  Most of the medications make you very forgetful too. It is hard to even remember to take your meds.