I’m a 31-year-old schizophrenic male and in the last four years, I’ve become incredibly high functioning. It started with a change in...
Hallucinations are hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling and smelling things that aren't actually there. Out of all hallucinations that...
A couple years ago, I took some time writing about how my psychotic symptoms affect me. In the next few days, I will be posting them...
Delusions are also a 'positive symptom' and, like hallucinations can be very disruptive to a schizophrenic person's life. A delusion is...
In this post, I continue talking about positive symptoms, in particular, thought disorders. These include things like making loose...
Today I would like to talk about the stigma around mental health and why, if there aren't more vocal people like me regarding these...
Preface: For context, this post was written in the summer of 2015. Since writing this post, I have found ways of more effectively...
<p>The positive symptom I'll be talking about in this post is agitation or irritability. I could be wrong, but I feel like...
Today I'll be talking about more negative symptoms. In particular, apathy or ambivalence. This certainly goes hand in hand with the...
There are times when there are very real moments that are of slight concern that my brain blows completely out of proportion. There are...
Scenario: I just had dinner and I'm making myself a coffee. (Yes a coffee after dinner, I have unhealthy habits, stop judging me). All...
Recently, I've been experimenting with where I sleep in the house. Because I can't be moving the bed all of the time, I've been...
Over the last year and a half, I had been tapering off of my low carbohydrate diet for a variety of reasons. Partly from laziness,...
In the last seven or so years, I started acknowledging to myself that I was grateful for the life I had. When this thinking first...
In the year 2015, I had been out of school for 10 years. In those 10 years, the only education-related thing I did was studied for my...
All throughout my life, a significant part of my personality was (and still is, sometimes) getting thorough enjoyment out of saying...
As I begin to get used to being a healthy, high-functioning person, I have become absolutely enamored with being organized. With my...
As entrepreneurs, all too often, we get fixated on activity goals and results goals. Last week, I wrote about how I use Google Keep to...
I have found my productivity is closely correlated with my health. Some reading this are probably thinking, "duh," but for an ignoramus...
I'd like to flip an old saying on its head and say: Better to open your mouth and admit your foolishness than to stay silent and prove...
Most people that know me are aware that I'm a night owl. My college classmates knew me as being insanely productive at times. My best...
In my previous post, I discussed how admitting that I'm experiencing psychotic (schizophrenic) symptoms to a colleague relieved tension...
Managing life, business, and mental illness all at once can be incredibly overwhelming. Worse yet, setting mental illness and managing...
