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Your doctor may or may not have diagnosed you with schizophrenia. He might have identified the prodromal schizophrenia form, which just means that you are at increased risk level and exhibiting a partial presentation.

Regardless of the name used, your doctor is just prescribing a medication that is in line with treating your symptoms.

I hope you have someone to talk to, a professional friend, psychiatrist. Discuss this with them, honestly and find a doctor who is more honest about what they are giving you. I would suggest you look up Risperidone on the web to get your answer.

The other thing is that drugs, not unlike natural remedies, have more than one use. Possibly there are findings that Risperidone helps people with anxiety disorders to sleep. So look it up.

Ask the doctor themselves if they find you are starting down the road to schizophrenia. Doctors are people who have special training in medicine, but being people not always equipped to know how to present the tough calls. If you feel they are hedging, tell them that it won't give you less anxiety not knowing. If the answer is yes you are starting that road then get on the band wagon of finding ways to stay emotionally and physically healthy as you can. There are new discoveries for schizophrenics all the time. Who knows you might be a lucky one who will become high functioning.

Good luck kiddo. Oh also according to the stats that after forty years of age or later the symptoms of schizophrenia become weaker, that is if you are schizophrenic. See all sorts of hope.

If you are wondering, it probably isn't schizophrenia.

Risperidone is an antipsychotic, but 0.5mg is not the dose given for a psychotic episode. 0.5mg is typically given as an add-on for depression or for the control of anxiety disorders.

You know your fears are BS, so they aren't delusions. In order to be a delusion, you have to fully believe in your thoughts and not have any insight. You have insight.

You've not listed anything that would warrant a schizophrenia diagnosis, but you do have enough to be diagnosed with GAD.

Believe me, it takes a lot more to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.

I am schizophrenic, and was not immediately diagnosed as such. It took my doctor several years before she brought up schizophrenia. I had hallucinations, delusions, negative symptoms, cognitive issues, and disorganization.

I was on risperidone, on about 4mg.

If your family thinks you are normal, that is another sign that it isn't schizophrenia. Your family would think there was something seriously wrong if you were schizo. My family can always tell when I am ill, almost immediately. I cannot act normally at all.

The fear of schizophrenia sounds like a sign of anxiety. Ask your doctor, though.

Good luck.

when you have schiz victims usually dont know whether what they are seeing is real or not. thats one of the things that makes them dangerous. my 11 year old bro and aunt have it. i think its just anxiety and paranoia.

seriously, a schizophrenic family member can destroy the whole family. my brother has almost succeeded in doing this and it makes my life so damn harder than it already is. i doubt you have it since it isnt very common, but if you get more schitzophrenic symptoms do please for the sake of others and yourself get yourself checked, or if you feel the urge to cut yourself, or hurt someone try to control yourself. you dont want to end up in jail or in a strait jacket, which is where my bro is gonna land.

Hit the health center bud, it's going to launch endorfuns and make you sense better ideal about your self. you'd be napping like a infant rapidly and the chicks will dig ya. Its a win win in case you question me.