Q: My friend told me that I might be having a disorder of the mind called Schizophrenia or Dissociative Identity Disorder, but I’m not exactly sure if I do or not because I haven’t been to see a doctor about it. I experience hallucinations which do scare me sometimes, for example I’ve seen a car [...]
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Q: What can you tell me about an experimental drug called Invega? Envega?
A: I can start off by telling you Invega is no longer “experimental”. In the United States, Invega has been approved for the treatment of Schizophrenia. While I’m not a physician or psychopharmacologist, I can give you some information about this new [...]
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Q: I can hear things that scare me. I can’t understand them. They’re just whispers when it’s quiet. My dad can hear them too. It’s stronger for him.
I know I’m not mental but it scares me. I read the characteristics of schizophrenic disorders and it doesn’t match up. Please help.
A: You are describing auditory hallucinations [...]
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Q: I was raised by a heroin addict and a paranoid, delusional mother. They beat and verbally abused me constantly. My mother said “you deserve it. You’re possessed!” My father never hit her, just me. She told me that she knows how to beat me without leaving marks. She made me drink turpentine with sugar [...]
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Q: I recently dated a 28 year old man diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. Two months into the relationship he admitted that after a night of heavy drinking he had slept with someone else. Completely remorseful, he told me that he sexually fantasises about most women that he meets. He admitted that in all previous relationships [...]
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