Do you feel like you cant come up with something to say when people talk to you? Do you feel like you have no emotions at all? Can you smell? What are your symptoms? Thank You this will help me alot :)

As a matter of fact that is the way I feel all the time..I feel as if I have changed into someone else someone who is unfamiliar.It as if i do things that hurt people and I have no regret no emotion to it.I feel like I have given up on everything I know.When people or therapists ask me ?'s I feel dumbed down as if I was once a witty person now I fit in with people around me whom are not very intellegent.I don't know I hope this helps you any.I have schizoaffective disorder and I have had it for a while now.I have recently found out that I have some type of problem with my heart and I believe it is because of the meds I have been on and off for the last years..I am only 28 and I feel like 50.I am once again off my meds due to either forgetting or just scared to to take them......My doctor gets easily frustrated with me because I am hard to stay on meds.I am truly how my name is.....lonely

one more question do you visually hallucinate constantly? i have self diagnosed myself with schizophrenia. i am paranoid, i hallucinate, feel no emotions, and all that. ive just started taking the true hope its helped amazingly to stop paranoia and hallucinations and to feel more emotions.

It's not that I have nothing to say, it's that I realize that there isn't anything to say. You've gotta admit, there isn't much to talk about really.

It's not that I have nothing to say, it's that I realize that there isn't anything to say. You've gotta admit, there isn't much to talk about really.

deepness :angel:

It's hard for me when people try to talk to me. First, I have voices that say things while they're talking, like SHUT UP SHUT UP @#$#*!! and stuff like that. Then I have to decide if talking back will accomplish anything - does the person talking to me really want conversation or do they just want to talk? - if I do talk back, will the person think they're my friend now & want to ask for cigarettes, money, etc, or want to know where I live...will they use what I've said against me? It's such a tough situation for me that I try to keep away from people altogether. My doctor keeps encouraging me to get out & be among people but I prefer to stay home. It was easier for me to get out when I was on Geodon, it didn't seem like such a hard thing, but now I'm off Geodon & back to my reclusive ways. Actually it's not so bad to be alone, I do have the voices to keep me company and I have a companion animal to hang out with too.

Why thank you derek, I idiotically take pride in that.
Would you agree though? That there really isn't much to talk about?

I have self diagnosed myself with scizophrenia too every doctor Ive ever went to said there was something diffrent wrong with me. My theropist tells me I have a protective shell. (laughs) I just agree with her so the conversatin ends quicker. But I feel like everytime I go there shes chewing me out for everything I dont do. I dont like to talk to people not because Im shy really but just because If I feel like theres something wrong with me. Which I know there is so I dont want others to have to deal with it. Im told that Im depressed I say Im upset.....really upset. And I just dont have a clue on where to start with my life. Like instead of talking to people I stay in my room in closed all the time behind those four walls and it seems to upset my mother a whole lot. But I dont want to be judged and I cant seem to keep my day to day tasks in my head. This is something that my mother started to notice. All I have to do is thank her for getting me this far. Im on geodone it helps thats all I can say.

definantly numb when it comes to emotions. i feel like i dont really feel anything anymore. i never know what to say to people, and if i do its usually the wrong thing. i hallucinate and have extreme paranoia....

Yes, I hate talking to people. and I hate going out. I have to make myself do things that I'm supposed to.For the longest time my husband had to go to the grocery store because I couldn't. Everytime I went somewhere someone was following me. I got so agitated to the point that I would cause scenes in public. The voices in my head were so bad I couldn't determine my own thoughts. I thought my family and kids were out to get me. I thought my family did things on purpose to make me mad. I couldn't even brush my teeth without seeing someone else in the bathroom mirror. I would look in the mirror and my own head would change form into a man that looked somewhat like me, but it wasn't me. I had to keep my head down everytime I went to the bathroom. Those were my symptoms. I have taken Geodon for a month now and a lot of my symptoms have subsided. The voices are almost gone and I can go out now without a feeling of terror. My personality has become better, like I can be my true self. :cool:

i can anderstand whot you are saying.
as i allso have this reched illness and it haze afekted even my abilaty to
go out door's.
i allso have dilushens about my dad being the devall.
and that i need to ivestergat him, alltho when i em on my meds loong enuf
i have a serten amont of controll, but not conpletly.
It haze been a loong gerny for me.
i have ixperensst my ferst stay in a schik word as i have had one of my badest
episoed's i stile dont file 100 percent as my doc hase dust changd my meds
and now i file lick i em back at sqwer 1