‘Schizophrenia’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 3

Q: I recently found that I have mostly likely been dealing with the effects of Asperger’s Syndrome for the last 20 years or so. Not knowing exactly what it was until within the last year, I have learned to adapt to and deal with most of the negative side effects. While I have for the [...]

Q: I am a male in my early 20s, and get risperidone for Schizophrenia. Because of this medication, my psychiatrist has sometimes ordered me to have a blood test and EKG. The worst thing isn’t the blood test, but the EKG. For some unexplained reason, I feel it is a kind of sexual abuse when [...]

Q: During the last 5 months, my wife has been having a problem she doesn’t want to discuss with a doctor. She always feels that everybody in her life is against her. She feels that my baby girl (age 4) and I are involved in a conspiracy against her. Even the TV programs and radio [...]

Q: I have a brother who recently revealed that once he started to hang around on his own he met two people, which became his ‘best’ friends. For a year or more he was in the belief that they existed, and he would talk to them and listen to their advice. He says they actually [...]

Q: My mind is playing tricks on me. I hear things, mostly whispering, but there is no one else around.
I have an overwhelming feeling that someone is watching me, or that people on the street or in a store somehow know my thoughts and are talking about me. This makes it increasingly difficult to leave [...]