https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/ Serving writers with all the ingredients they need to succeed Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:33:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/#comment-83772 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:33:11 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=4365#comment-83772 […] How to Write Schizophrenia | The Writer’s Cookbook […]

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]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/#comment-64571 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:03:29 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=4365#comment-64571 Thank you so much! I’ve been meaning to write a book with a schizophrenic (I hope I spelt that right!) main character, and this helped a lot. Thank you very much!

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]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/#comment-51930 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:30:29 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=4365#comment-51930 Oh, thank you so much for this!! Been trying to write a character with schizophrenia and I think I’ve finally got it!

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]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/#comment-19752 Fri, 22 May 2020 19:11:15 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=4365#comment-19752 I write a story about a demon who suffers from a psychosis. He believes the princess is in love with him (erotomania), and it gets confusing for him when they actually meet! Once he figures out she doesn’t know him “anymore”, his delusions wander from one to another, because they keep getting eleminated (bc they’re based on the princess’ behavior)
They go from “the princess loves me” to “the princess got brainwashed and I have to make her live me again” to “she died and I have to collect the souls of certain people to revive her”
and that’s how he became a serial killer (and I KNOW people with schizophrenia aren’t serial killers, it just fits his personality and his delusions)

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]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/#comment-12828 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 01:23:10 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=4365#comment-12828 Hi! I write short stories, mainly for myself, and while I do not want to share them publicly, I wanted to, at the very least, portray mental illness correctly. I’ve had this idea to create a character with Munchausen Syndrome, though I have no idea how to go about it, and while I have been reading up on it, i’m not entirely true which parts are and aren’t accurate. Might I suggest you do a guide on this illness, and shine some light on it?

]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/#comment-8861 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 06:11:11 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=4365#comment-8861 I’m taking on the challenge of writing for a character with schizophrenia. When I was designing the plot and characters I put into the storyline and character. That my protagonist Indigo has it. For a bit when I actually sat down to write I was thinking that maybe I should cut it out. I was and still am mostly afraid it won’t be accurate and I don’t want to get things wrong, and make it seem what it’s not. But it’s a main point in parts of the storyline and large parts of the climax wouldn’t work without it. As it’s needed so that some things can happen that I had planned. One of the main turning points has to do with the her medical records getting leaked to the school and the school finds out about it. Something she had been actively avoiding. So I’m keeping it in for storyline and plot sake. This helped a bit but I’m going to continue to research before delving into the story. I’m safe for the first chapter or so because it doesn’t have much impact on those but once I get 2 or 3 chapters in I have to take some more research to make sure I get this right.

]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/how-to-write-schizophrenia/#comment-5043 Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:51:30 +0000 https://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=4365#comment-5043 Having had people with schizophrenia around me in my youth, I can fully attest to the reality of this post! Thanks so much for writing it 🙂

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