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what do you do when you discover that it's real? you never had schizophrenia or whatever they labeled it and it's not just in your head. it's not as simple as a misfiring of the chemicals in your brain. the voice isn't a hallucination. the things he tells you are the cold, hard truth. the things you believe aren't delusions.

do you pray? do you run to your priest? is it time for an exorcism? do you resign yourself to being this way forever? do you stop paying for medications that are never going to work?

what do you do?

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Posted on 01/21/08, 02:01 pm
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Reply #1 - 01/21/08  4:39pm
" preist,go to the preist they have alot of experence with the invisable world,they wont laugh at you thats what they have spent years studying about. "
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Reply #2 - 01/21/08  10:22pm
" No it's a real voice that sounds like it's coming from somewhere else. for me it's outside a window ect. It helps to have a sense of humor about it. Medicines do work or you wouldn't be able to communicate. Years ago people were just put into asylums and labeled or experimented upon. "
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Reply #3 - 01/22/08  1:16pm
" different medications work for different people.

Perhaps that it is coninsidence? I asked my voices once, no, twice, to get me a knife so I could cut to get them to shut up. And they told me I'd have one in a few days. And I got one in two days. coincidence? I have no clue. "
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Reply #4 - 06/18/08  8:32am
" watch "the matrix"

then ask yourself, "What is real?"

certainly it is not what we see with our eyes, hear with our ears, taste, feel, and perceive, as we have been told and witnessed that these our senses are not reliable.

you should enjoy the world as you know it. enjoy the mystery and questions you cannot answer. what a boring world it would be if we knew it all. "
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Reply #5 - 06/20/08  12:02am
" Close your eyes and try to imagine someone face that you know so well or try to remember something that you did today?

How come you can see in your mind that face like a real picture taken with the most sophisticated digital camera and how come you can see the real image of your self in your mind like if you were watching a movie?

I tell you why.We have so many parts in our brain that works specific for some activity.
Now try to think tha to our brain is not synchronized like a healthy brain,what happen than?What happen is that we receive wrong messages ,that what happen.
The hearing parts get confused with the memories one,the image one gets confuse with some other one and ect ect.

What happen when you will accept that this thinking of yours was caused bye the fact that you came out with some personal explanations to cover the unknown of this disease before someone told you that you had a disease?
What will happen is you will get your life and freedom in back.Sorry,wake up and smell the coffee,you and I have a disease,that`s all.
Try to remember you you had the first weird thought and why,that will help. "
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Reply #6 - 06/20/08  12:12am
" Corrections
*Now try to think that our brain is not synchronized.....
*Try to remember when you had the first.... "
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Reply #7 - 06/20/08  12:03pm
" I still believe it is real. Giving up, resigning myself, is what I did. I take medications more for my family's sanity than mine. I turned to religion when it was first brought on. It didn't help for me. Maybe it was because I turned to myself and my faith was too weak? That is probably it. I still believe in spiritual things though. I will never lose my faith no matter how weak.. "
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