I am afraid i will get schizophrenia

Luckily, like altzheimers, you won't know you have it.

Mental Illness is maybe not the msot common thing, but it is normal, its like all other illnesses like virus' etc. If it seems like you may have symptoms the only thing to do is go to the doctor and get them to check if you have it. I find alot of people are embarrassed about having mental illness or dont wanna admit it, but the best thing to do is to go to the doctors and find out. Because if you dont have it thats fantastic, and if you do you'll get meds to make you feel better so either way you can only gain from going to the doctors about it. P.S. I smoke weed quite alot and i used to always be scared of getting mental illnesses

Well, for one, a LOT of people who are taking psychology classes start to get paranoid that they have the problems they are learning about. This is because everyone has a lot of the issues that people with a serious mental illness have, but to a much lesser degree.

The sleepy problem you describe doesn't seem like much of a concern as far as schizophrenia goes, but you could have other issues you haven't even realized are abnormal.

For the most part I would tell you to not worry yourself so much, you can psych yourself into having a mental problem.

But I would also like to say that my husband has schizophrenia. About a year before he had his first break from reality, he woke me up one night because he was seeing a face in the oscillating fan across the room. That night we talked about how bizarre it would be if he got schizophrenia. We laughed about it. Joke's on us.

The hallucinations in schizophrenia are caused by misfires in your brain. You sense one thing, the message goes to your brain, and somehow gets thrown off track and you may see/hear/feel something that didn't happen or wasn't there.

Often times a schizo will have a lot of misfires before they actually detach from reality, before it becomes obvious that there's a problem. And even normal healthy people can have misfires from time to time. But usually the kinds of misfires you have to look out for are things like, shadows becoming something else, or changing, or when someone says something to you you hear it as something completely different. Like someone might say, "Oh, that's pitiful" And you might here "You're a pedophile". And it's not just that you HEAR that, this ominous feeling of terrible significance is often accompanied by it. You will start to think that things "aren't what they seem", that everyone has and ulterior motive, etc.

That's just the types of things that you might experience. There are people who have more positive hallucinations and delusions and aren't as paranoid, but these types of things tend to be the most common.

And you're not just going to wake up one morning schizo for no real reason. You would likely have a series of very stressful things happen to you, maybe even traumatic, or have to suddenly assume a large amount of responsibility all at once. Something like that it what triggers your brain. That could be why so many young men get it in their late teens and early twenties...that's a time that has a lot of change in it. Maybe women get it later because they tend to have a different process of maturity where late twenties early thrities tends to have a lot more change or stress.

If psychosis runs in your family, or you start to have symptoms simliar to the ones I mentioned, talk to a doctor about them. If you nip schizophrenia in the bud it will do a lot less damage to your life.

But it sounds to me more like you just have some kind of panic/anxiety type of disorder. You sound like you are just wigging out! :)

Good luck.

I am a schizophrenic.
I am sure you are fine.
It sucks having this, but you get used to things somewhat.
No worries.

My brother is schizophrenic. Talk to me if you think that the cat is a robot that is monitoring you for the secret service, or if you feel as if you are a prophet for Ahura Mazda the Zorastrian god.

Basically...you're fine. And also stop reading psychology books, they just give you excuses for acting like a freak.

i think its normal for anyone coming off some mental issue(the addiction) to worry about falling into some even deeper pit, that they wont be able to get out of

Schizophreina is a mental illness that can be managed with meds. All you gotta do is not let this fear eat at you so much or I promise you, your anxiety will only get worse.