Where do we draw the line?
Hello everyone I was diagnosed with schizophrenia maybe 4 or 5 years ago. I thankfully am very aware when hallucinations hit and know how to deal with them (I basically just stay at home for a week or so). Not so much with delusions though.
But my problem is where do we draw the line regarding other wordly things that maybe our illness has to do with them?
So we have positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms i understand that. But what about the absolute way of thinking? Im not talking about disorganised thoughts pertaining to positive symptoms. Im talking about our type of reasoning. Why do we pick a specific option over the other. So where do we draw the line resembling this side is the illness and this side is our true "default" self.
You maybe thinking im over thinking it, but actually im not. I feel like schizophrenia robbed me of my true self and I lost a lot of me to cope with this hell of an illness. And because of that I feel like all my life is rotating around this.
Edit: to say this clearly--> have we been replaced by our illness?? Or in other words, are we just the resemblance of our schizophrenia?