Story about a woman with paranoid schizophrenia

[Sinead777]

Hello lovelies!

I've written a short story about a woman who is having a mental breakdown - it is unspecified in the piece what is wrong with her but in my head she has paranoid schizophrenia. I am wondering if anybody would be happy to read it and give me some feedback, specifically on whether this diagnosis is something you might also think of when reading it.

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How long is it Sinead?

Happy to, someone very close to me has schizophrenia.

I don’t think you would ever diagnose someone after one episode though. You would be diagnosed as suffering from an episode of psychosis which can be caused by many different things.

A diagnosis of schizophrenia, which is is a serious life long condition, would take much longer and would probably be after repeated episodes of psychosis.

Mental health nurse here nursing patients with schizophrenia happy to read

@nutroastnancy @holdingtherope thank you both so much - I'm just editing it slightly but could you PM your email addresses and I will send it over to you? I had not realised multiple episodes would be needed for a schizophrenia diagnosis but that does make sense.

@onalongsabbatical it is 5000 words :)

Yeah I'll read it. PM'ing you.

I will read it if you still need feedback.

I have had the misfortune of witnessing someone close to me unravel and never recover.