‘Schizophrenia’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 5

Q: What is an unprecedented mental urgency to leave immediately? I don’t get it! And now I am fired from a job I loved.
I was at work, minding my business, working alone; I did have a lot of personally stressing relationship issues on my mind that day, so that might have something to do [...]

Q: I am a college student, and one of my friends has started to develop what I think may be symptoms of schizophrenia. He is in one of my morning classes, and he stopped showing up for class. I would joke with him about it but that’s because I thought he was just sleeping in. [...]

Q: I desperately need advice on what the next step is to take for my youngest brother. This all began with his lying about graduating from college, were he was 2 classes shy. He lived with my parents for a year with no job and isolated himself in his room.
He ended up stealing money [...]

Q: A friend of mine shows the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. He believes people are drugging him, hacking into his computer, etc. He has a history of drug use (I think mainly cocaine). He has lost 2 jobs because of this already and has threatened to commit suicide. However, he doesn’t
believe he needs help and [...]

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 [...]