Looking Back on Living With Untreated Schizophrenia

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Looking Back on Living With Untreated Schizophrenia
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Personal Perspective: During Mental Illness Awareness Week focus on education of yourself and the many individuals who do not understand they are mentally ill.

October 1-7, 2023, marks Mental Illness Awareness Week. This is a time for people with mental illness, their families, and the community to gather together and constructively dialogue about the realities of mental illness in America and the best ways to broaden awareness throughdiagnoses will undergo several trials of medication and various treatment options to identify a plan tailor-made to them—effective, with minimal to no side effects.

Anosognosia can cause a person to forget the life they once had. Some people lose interest in school or a job they spent years preparing for and instead quit and isolate themselves. Many are unwilling to accept a diagnosis due toPrior to my diagnosis, I did not realize schizophrenia had dramatically altered my sense of reality. Because of this, I spent four years homeless. I remember when I first lost my apartment and didn’t consider reaching out for help.

Nothing could help me, until I was finally picked up and taken to a psychiatric hospital. Although antipsychotic medication helped significantly, reducing my paranoia, delusions, and most of my hallucinations, I was unable to recognize that it had helped at all. Unfortunately, I suffered greatly from side effects. I went off my medication only a couple of weeks after my initial hospital discharge. I soon becameDuring my second hospitalization, a psychiatrist reached out to me with hope.

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