Hello, I need to make some interviews and to collect cases on schizophrenia for a scholastic work, to somebody with experience in the subject: can i ask you some questions? \nThe interview is totally anonymous. \n\nThanks, will contact to me via mail, please if it interests to you writes your email
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I used to work with people with schizophrenia who were recently discharged from the state hospital and now I am a 4th year clinical psychology grad student.  I would love to give you some interesting (deidentified) cases, but I don't feel comfortable leaving my e-mail here.  You can contact me through my profile.
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Well they try to get them to socialize (go on outings and do activities) but mainly in the us and canada we just dope them (antipsychotics) and put them on the street these days. There is not enough funding for real rehabilitation.  For people who are threats to themselves and others we use things like token economies in institutions teaching them how to work for things that they want and behave for things that they want.  Outside of the instutition people try to arrange jobs that they can do.  Lost of places sponsor PHD and post docs to research schizophrenia....do a pubmed search for whatever therapeutic techniques you are interested in and write to a few professors about doing graduate school with them...assuming you have an undergraduate degree....if you do not have an undergraduate...you will want to do that first.
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not enough.\n\nhere is a link-http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/dec/01/campus_counselors_seeing/\n\nWhen I was at IU living in a dorm..my neighbor became depressed over dosed attempting suicide...no one knew for several days...then she told a friend who reported her to the RA ...she locked herself in her room...then she was instructed, mind you this was now a week after the attempted suicide, to go get checked at the uni hosp. or she would not be allowed to graduate.\n\nWell she went to the hospital and they simply signed her chart that she was OK...no psych. consult nothing.\n\nI have a prediction that something is now inherently wrong with the way we live now and mental illness with cause our demise.  I don't mean to be sounding so dreary here...but I meet only people each day at my office who are mentally ill....I know like 2 people who have healthy minds free of psychosis or neurosis or depression or paranoia....good luck
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WRITE SOPHIEOSCARCAT@YAHOO.COM HE ALSO IS IN YAHOO 360 HE WAS CPS AND HES GOOD. HE WAS MY OLD WORKER AND WEVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR 20 YRS NOW
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a person with schizophrenia, really does believe what is in their minds. and don't worry about the spelling cause some others have gotten in wrong too, they are just being a smart a*s. but truly with someone like this it is best to just listen to what they say, and never try to convince them that what they are telling you is wrong, it will not work and could possibly be a dangerous situation if you did. Just be a good listener if you can, and if not...just cut all ties with that person if need be.(i learned alot about this in my abnormal psychology class for college). good luck!!
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Robert Agnew (Bob) [last updated February, 2003]\nIn November 2002, my wife and I moved to western Pennsylvania in order to be active participants in our grandchildren's lives. We are truly enjoying our experiences! I would love to hear from each of you!\n \n\nBob Borda [last updated September, 2004]\nI reluctantly signed up for e-mail, but here we go! I'd love to hear from East High alumni. I'm still in private practice in clinical neuropsychology, with offices in Arcola (at Houston Southwest Airport), Sugar Land (in a neurologist's office), and Austin (another neurologist), Texas. Drive a lot, fly some. My wife, Eleanor, has transformed our small acreage 25 miles south of downtown Houston into a rose/native plant nursery and wildlife preserve. It appears that I (finally) have developed a work ethic, so I get to enjoy our place less than I would like and then it typically involves yard work or remodeling. Cheers to all.\n \n\nRonnie Borod [last updated September, 2004]\nI am a partner in the law firm of Brown Rudnick, a Boston-based firm with additional offices in New York, London, Dublin, Washington, DC, Providence, and Hartford. I head the Structured Finance Group at the firm, which specializes in structuring and closing asset-backed securities transactions. I live in Boston but spend most weekends in Rhode Island with my wife, Doris Licht, who is an estate planning lawyer with another firm which is headquartered in Providence. We also own a beach house on the Rhode Island coast and spend as much time there as possible. I have 3 children, Gail (35), Emily (31) and Adam (27), all of whom live on the West Coast. Gail is married, has a baby daughter, Isabella, age 8 months, and is a project manager at Microsoft in Seattle. Emily was just married in August of this year, and lives in Portland, OR where she attends medical school. Adam is a consultant living in San Francisco.\n \n\nSarah Bradford [last updated April, 2003]\nDecided to surface and say "hey y'all" from Georgia!!! Planning to retire for real in a few months if the world doesn't stop turning!! Retired from Eastern Air Lines in '87 and moved to the country from Atlanta. Life's been the proverbial "Wild Ride of Mr. Toad" every since..but boy it's been fun as well as challenging...\nMade a good living in horticulture and landscape after real estate took up too much of my time..Then as age began to think it could creep up on me, I decided I'd best get somewhere with insurance and benefits, so until freedom is once again mine, I work in the company of 4 million books for a distributor called Baker and Taylor.\nI've raised two sons and a couple of foster kids..mostly by myself after a 14yr marriage almost spelled disaster. Both sons are married and I have 2 and 1/4 grandkids plus 3grandkids from a foster son that I am still very much in touch with.\nI live, by choice, in a very small trailer on my land where I generally have a garden and make attempts to grow flowers.\nIn both cases though, the weeds seem to always prevail..so every spring I go at it again....\nNothing earthshattering...just life on a rollercoaster..hehehe\nY'all email me and I'l try to answer....would love to hear from ya.\n \n\nSidna Brower [last updated September, 2004]\nI attended the first 20th reunion and hope to make the 45th. In 2002, I retired as deputy director of the NJ Council on Affordable Housing. My husband, George, and I lived in Bernardsville, NJ, (Somerset County)for almost 30 years; there I was active in politics, church and the library. I really got involved when we moved to a retirement community in Middlesex County almost five years ago. I ran for the NJ State Assembly last year and almost won in a heavily Democratic district---just missed by about 700 votes out of 54,000 cast---so I may run again next year. I'm president of the Rossmoor Republican Club, GOP Monroe Township municipal chair, Middlesex County GO
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There is a contributor named Rob Wallace that you might want to do a search on (a few recent postings).\n\nI would be interested on your take of my study below Nik.
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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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God dammit!\n\nGet over it.  :)\n\nQuestions?  Comments?  Concerns?  Email me through the link in my profile, and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
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Tell him you're worried about him and see what he says...I've come across some people who are schizophrenic, and they talk and talk and talk and make up a lot of what they say-usually schizophrenics just want people to listen to them, that's all.  Say stuff like, "I know your job sucks, man, you can do better," and things like that.  He can still change jobs; some older people stay at the same job for years and years because they're afraid nothing else is out there for them.  I know this eighty-year-old guy who works at a doughnut shop & he probably hates it, but he doesn't get all upset about it.
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yes please .\ni would appreciate if you could email me some info.\n\nmy email is- shruti_madan@yahoo.com\n\nthankyou
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First of all, remove the quotation marks.  Schizophrenia is an illness.  Unfortunately, it is chronic and it cannot be cured.  However, for most people with schizophrenia, symptoms can be relatively controlled with medication.  \nThe exact cause of schizophrenia is unknown.  It is a genetic disorder and they have noticed some neurological differences between the brains of schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic people (ventricle size, dopamine levels, etc).  \nMost people are diagnosed in their late teens or early 20s.  A lot of people will have their first psychotic break during college.  However, since people with early schizophrenia are so disorganized and in so much denial, that they don't recognize the symptoms.  There can be some observable symptoms (isolation, poor hygiene, talking to themselves or responding to internal stimuli, depression, confusion).  When this happens, usually family or friends can seek help.  However, a lot of people are involuntarily hospitalized because they can't take care of themselves (danger to themselves) by not eating or not showering.  As you can see, it is a serious mental illness due to the severity of the symptoms and how the symptoms can affect a person's global functioning.  \nI worked with schizophrenics one-on-one in a community outpatient program.  Obviously, I am not frightened by them and I don't avoid them.  Some of them were occasionally frustrating (like when one stopped taking his Clozaril and decided to self-medicate with alcohol, went totally psychotic, tried to fly to Canada, and was found sleeping in the dead of winter on a vent on the street).  But most of the schizophrenics I worked with were very kind and very gentle.  I even worked with a couple with advanced, college degrees and one was working full time and making more than I was.  \nOf the 40+ patients in our program, I can only think of 1 or 2 that committed a violent crime.  That, unfortunately, is one of the stereotypes and the stigma attached to schizophrenia.  The media jumps on stories in which a person with schizophrenia commits a violent act, but they never feature the majority of these patients who are law-abiding individuals, just trying to live their lives.  \nIf you are not sure what schizophrenia is, you are headed in the right direction. Once you can accept this illness and develop some insight, you have a better chance of successful treatment.
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You are confusing schizophrenia with Dissociative Identity Disorder (what used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder).  And no, all the personalities wouldn't.  Plus some of the personalities are probably men so they wouldn't PMS at all.
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My niece is also in germany, i will check with her to se if I can give you are email address and at least you two can chat.  Blessings
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I don't know of any way to guarantee that anyone you contact online who claims to be a psychiatrist really has the credentials--but for that matter, if you're really needing to talk to somebody, you need to at least be able to reach someone by phone, and if at all possible meet in person. I'd like to suggest the link below from my website that lists toll-free crisis-hotline numbers. And if I can help in any way, I'm not a licensed counselor but I'm willing to listen. Drop me a line at chad@jesusfreak.com if you'd like. Take care.
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Belinda is a great person and a friend of mine.  Email me in private and I can tell you a little about her.  I have known her about 3 years now and can not wait until she gets out.\n\nhou1ref@yahoo.com
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Dear Paranoid, Schizophrenic freak.\n\n     Why would you even bother writing this? you know I'm watching you and I can see what you are doing to the cat.\n\nPut down the duct tape.\n\nSincerly,\n\nEveryone you see on a regular day