Hello, and thank you in advance for your help! (And apologies to the mods for screwing up the submission before ( Read more... )

Setting: New England, 2011-2012

Character: Is a 15/16 year-old male with early-onset schizophrenia, and ADD. Has recently been diagnosed with early-onset schizophrenia, and is presenting with positive symptoms (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/ ( Read more... )

I have a character, I'll call her Elena for now, who I need to develop an acute mental break after witnessing one of her good friends being abducted for the slave trade and nearly being taken herself. The story roughly takes place in 16th century Poland and she's about 18 years old ( Read more... )

Setting: Late 1870s London ( Read more... )

Setting: present day US; fantastic elements present

Searches performed: Apart from the obvious Google searches for "word salad audio," "word salad sample," "disorganized speech sample," "disorganized speech analysis," and similar variations, and clicking through the references on Wikipedia articles on word salad, disorganized schizophrenia, etc., ( Read more... )

I'm pretty familiar with most mental illnesses, and I know from personal experience how infuriating it can be when people perpetuate damaging stereotypes that usually have no basis in reality (thank you, "The Roommate." Ugh). Anyways, I would really like information on things to include and avoid when writing about schizophrenia so that someone ( Read more... )

Setting is fantastical, tech level is 1920s-ish and we're talking paranoid schizophrenia that runs a more-or-less typical course. So not catastrophic schizophrenia. The character in question gets to be lucid at least sometimes.

This is very long and I apologise, but I'm trying to put together a more or less complete picture, so I don't embarrass ( Read more... )

So... I've got a hebephrenic character. As of now his symptoms aren't very severe as the disease has begun recently, but I plan to show him in the future, with the disease more developed - about 5-6 years from the start. The guy has received no treatment at all ( Read more... )

Story Background: I’m writing a retelling of Alice in Wonderland. It’s going to take place in a made-up country but the setting is more or less based on 1700s-1800s England. What I really want to do is write a retelling that doesn’t involve talking animals or anything fantastical and make everything more realistic. Because of that, the character of ( Read more... )

In my latest attempt at a novel, the main male character's mother suffered from schizophrenia to the extent that she hung herself while said character, at five years old, watched. Obviously this experience in and of itself has caused some residual effects, but my real questions are as follows ( Read more... )