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I just recently became more open about my condition to my loved ones and sadly, some refuse to accept it.

I'm perfectly content with having schizophrenia and thought they would be content as well. Instead, I'm being fed delusions about actually being a psychic, needing to help the figures I see, or that psychiatrists are actually just sales people for medication rather than a real doctor.

It's very tiring to know I won't be able to talk to them or have them in my corner when I'm struggling. One mention of an issue and I'll be told I'm completely wrong and overreacting.

Seems like the stigma around schizophrenia makes people afraid to have a schizophrenic loved one.

Just curious if anyone else has had this type of problem and if there's a way to convince them to accept it. Or a way to make them understand that it's not healthy for me to be told things that could cause me to easily delude myself and start believing they're right?

Hiya, I'm new here and pretty new to being actually diagnosed but I had a question and thought asking people with an understanding might be able to give some tips.

From what I understand, schizophrenia can be really different for a lot of people so I risk sounding ridiculous with this question - but does anyone have tips for being able to ignore "shadow figures?" I guess that's what to call it, at least. I'm not sure if there's a proper term.

It's always been an issue for me to feel like I'm being watched from the corner of rooms but for the past month or two it really seems like I'm sometimes seeing a sort of shadowy figure in corners for a quick moment when I scan the room or even just going into another room. It's pretty much like a 3D shadow with white or maybe bright greenish eyes if that makes sense.

Like I said, I'm definitely risking sounding ridiculous or maybe even dramatic but I've read it can be a part of schizophrenia and I'd really like to learn how to deal with this kind of thing, if possible.

Genuinely sorry if this isn't the right place to post a question like this.