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		<title><![CDATA[Crazy Nice People Forums - Schizophrenia]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Engaging with fiction as a schizophrenic]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Does anyone else struggle with engaging with fiction as a schizophrenic? I find that fiction easily influences my psychosis and symptoms, and it can make it difficult to enjoy any media when my psychosis latches onto things so easily; especially with media that's related to my other psychosis (such as religious media). Does anyone else experience this?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Does anyone else struggle with engaging with fiction as a schizophrenic? I find that fiction easily influences my psychosis and symptoms, and it can make it difficult to enjoy any media when my psychosis latches onto things so easily; especially with media that's related to my other psychosis (such as religious media). Does anyone else experience this?]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Panic and Anxiety Can Cause Psychosis Rather than the Other Way Around]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.crazynicepeople.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=1">ArmandCNP</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[When a psychotic patient voices their concern about anxiety and panic, many doctors see it as being caused by psychotic symptoms. They will treat the patient with antipsychotics believing that this will relief the patient of their anxiety. While this works in some cases, it often does not.<br />
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When a patient can not remain calm, they lose their ability to perform reality checking technique. A patient that could otherwise snuff out their crazy thought process will instead begin to spiral downward into a delusional state of mind. <br />
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Panic can trigger hallucinations as well. A day full of panic attacks can easily result in a patient hearing voices even after being asymptomatic in this regard for long periods. It's rare that any doctor will try to treat anxiety as the root cause. They will undoubtedly prescribe the patient antipsychotics.<br />
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Looking at panic and anxiety as the root cause can have the potential for better patient outcomes. Patients are often already aware of this. If doctors would only listen to patients about how their thought process worked, they would succeed in ridding them of some rather nasty psychotic symptoms if the intervention was targeting the root cause.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When a psychotic patient voices their concern about anxiety and panic, many doctors see it as being caused by psychotic symptoms. They will treat the patient with antipsychotics believing that this will relief the patient of their anxiety. While this works in some cases, it often does not.<br />
<br />
When a patient can not remain calm, they lose their ability to perform reality checking technique. A patient that could otherwise snuff out their crazy thought process will instead begin to spiral downward into a delusional state of mind. <br />
<br />
Panic can trigger hallucinations as well. A day full of panic attacks can easily result in a patient hearing voices even after being asymptomatic in this regard for long periods. It's rare that any doctor will try to treat anxiety as the root cause. They will undoubtedly prescribe the patient antipsychotics.<br />
<br />
Looking at panic and anxiety as the root cause can have the potential for better patient outcomes. Patients are often already aware of this. If doctors would only listen to patients about how their thought process worked, they would succeed in ridding them of some rather nasty psychotic symptoms if the intervention was targeting the root cause.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anxiolytics to treat Schizophrenia]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.crazynicepeople.org/thread-49.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've reached a point where I can think myself out of a psychotic state if I simply remain calm. As such, it seems the best treatment for my schizophrenia are benzos.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've reached a point where I can think myself out of a psychotic state if I simply remain calm. As such, it seems the best treatment for my schizophrenia are benzos.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[When Lightning Strikes a Schizo Twice]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.crazynicepeople.org/thread-47.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.crazynicepeople.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=1">ArmandCNP</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's a cliche meant to refer to a stroke of astronomically bad luck. Most people use it when they chance upon getting two flat tires or some other terribly inconvenient occurrence. They get frustrated. They move on. Something far far worse happens to those on the schizo spec.<br />
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Schizophrenics are constantly making loose connections which force them to conclude that something suspicious is afoot. Over time, they may learn to turn off the portion of their brains which make these associations. However, no level of discipline allows for the writing off of the proverbial double lightning strike.<br />
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Let's say that, in a moment of brief instability, that a nearby tv perfectly syncs up with the schizo's thoughts. Faster than any reality checking can occur, a passing car radio proceeds to do exactly the same. Incontrovertible proof of thought broadcasting.<br />
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In the face of such strong empirical data, many a schizo could understandably spend the remainder of the day in deep thought as to what this signifies. At worst, it could send them spiraling back into the delusional state which they fought so hard to escape from.<br />
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A set of coincidences is entertaining to the average person. To those caught up in the endless battle with psychosis, it amounts to their foe unleashing a WMD. There are no winners]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It's a cliche meant to refer to a stroke of astronomically bad luck. Most people use it when they chance upon getting two flat tires or some other terribly inconvenient occurrence. They get frustrated. They move on. Something far far worse happens to those on the schizo spec.<br />
<br />
Schizophrenics are constantly making loose connections which force them to conclude that something suspicious is afoot. Over time, they may learn to turn off the portion of their brains which make these associations. However, no level of discipline allows for the writing off of the proverbial double lightning strike.<br />
<br />
Let's say that, in a moment of brief instability, that a nearby tv perfectly syncs up with the schizo's thoughts. Faster than any reality checking can occur, a passing car radio proceeds to do exactly the same. Incontrovertible proof of thought broadcasting.<br />
<br />
In the face of such strong empirical data, many a schizo could understandably spend the remainder of the day in deep thought as to what this signifies. At worst, it could send them spiraling back into the delusional state which they fought so hard to escape from.<br />
<br />
A set of coincidences is entertaining to the average person. To those caught up in the endless battle with psychosis, it amounts to their foe unleashing a WMD. There are no winners]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[The One Unexplainable Thing]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.crazynicepeople.org/thread-44.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.crazynicepeople.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=1">ArmandCNP</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Throughout the life of a psychotic person, they experience a myriad of symptoms. Some Terrifying. Some mania inducing. Some are even comical. Over time we learn to put those symptoms behind us and do not incorporate those notions into our way of thinking. That's true for most. For an unlucky few, there are events experienced within their personal reality refuse to fade away. That one piece of iron clad proof that your unshared beliefs are true.<br />
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This type of proof I speak of is air tight beyond all reasonable doubt. This would hold as proof in the schizo court of law. It often takes the form of an astronomical coincidence. It's if you won too unfortunate lotteries or were struck by lightning twice.<br />
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You can't write it off as coincidence. To do so would feel as though you were gaslighting yourself. The feeling of doing so while people in your life agree for reasons you can't fathom puts a beyond-uncomfortable pit in your stomach. It's psych torture. There is no therapy that can contend with your irrefutable proof. The best you can hope for is to allow so much time to pass such that the proof isn't thought about anymore.<br />
<br />
One would think that a wacky notion conjured from nothing would be the most disorienting. In truth, it's the delusions that you have proof for in your mind.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Throughout the life of a psychotic person, they experience a myriad of symptoms. Some Terrifying. Some mania inducing. Some are even comical. Over time we learn to put those symptoms behind us and do not incorporate those notions into our way of thinking. That's true for most. For an unlucky few, there are events experienced within their personal reality refuse to fade away. That one piece of iron clad proof that your unshared beliefs are true.<br />
<br />
This type of proof I speak of is air tight beyond all reasonable doubt. This would hold as proof in the schizo court of law. It often takes the form of an astronomical coincidence. It's if you won too unfortunate lotteries or were struck by lightning twice.<br />
<br />
You can't write it off as coincidence. To do so would feel as though you were gaslighting yourself. The feeling of doing so while people in your life agree for reasons you can't fathom puts a beyond-uncomfortable pit in your stomach. It's psych torture. There is no therapy that can contend with your irrefutable proof. The best you can hope for is to allow so much time to pass such that the proof isn't thought about anymore.<br />
<br />
One would think that a wacky notion conjured from nothing would be the most disorienting. In truth, it's the delusions that you have proof for in your mind.]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have bad schizophrenia. This is a site functionality test]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have bad schizophrenia. This is a site functionality test]]></content:encoded>
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