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Travis shares his experience of trying to get help in the mental health system. He received several different diagnosis along the way leading up to an official diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Travis talks about how he listened to opinions of a lot of people and even started Googling and researching different disorders that others suspected he have. Learn about Travis' first psychotic break that led to him officially being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Travis talks about how he has trouble telling the difference between reality and real life when he is having psychotic episodes and explains how the voices tell him to do bad things to himself like light a can of gas on fire right in front of him so he blows up. Travis has learned great coping strategies to help him overcome these serious hallucinations and delusions. Read Travis book to learn how all of the speculation and confusion led Travis to be more anxious and depressed because there was no official diagnosis for him other than autism until 2013. Travis also shares his experiences with being in a mental health hospital. There are pros and cons to being hospitalized but getting hospitalized in 2013 is how Travis officially began getting diagnosed as having Paranoid Schizophrenia. Here is an excerpt from the book. At the time I did not know much about autism but it did not take me long to research it and find out all about it. I felt like I really connected with this syndrome and thought maybe I finally had an official answer as to what was wrong with me. I have always struggled with the unwritten social rules and norms. Socializing is very hard for me and it has always been that way. I was high functioning so they said I had Asperge's syndrome and was at the high functioning end of the autism spectrum. To this day I still believe that there is some sort of myth within the autism community that having asperger's syndrome is a good thing. While I agree it is better than having non-verbal autism it is still challenging within its own ways. The higher functioning that a person with autism is the more social expectations people have for them. People with asperger's syndrome really have to work hard to learn all of these unwritten social rules and norms. If they are unable to learn the unwritten social rules and norms then it is difficult for them to function in social relationships. The autism diagnosis stuck with me for several years. Meanwhile my mental health continued to get worse and it became increasingly more difficult for me to function in all areas of my life. I had a serious mental illness that I did not realize at the time but it interfered with my ability to go to school and it interfered with my ability to keep a job. I began to hear voices talking to me that other people could not hear. I began to see things that other people could not see and I began to talk back to some of the voices. I am not sure why but when I hear voices it is never a good voice. They are always telling me that I need to punish myself because I have autism. The voices say that I must die because I have autism. Thankfully I have learned to cope with hearing these voices and am doing much better now that I am actually on the right medications.

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