Monday, August 18, 2014

How to make my parents believe I don't have schizophrenia

Let me explain what happened 3 years back. I was a foreigner  sharing an apartment with a selfish American guy who didn't like to share his stuff with me. I had dropped out of college and was living on the money sent by my parents from abroad. Sometimes when I ran out of money I ate his stuff and used his detergent. He got very pissed off because of this. 
The apartment I was living in was near a lake so it was infested by mold and the water and the dryer were giving  off a foul smell. I am very sensitive to strong smell and mold, but my roommate wasn't. So I kept complaining abt this problem to the apartment complex management time and again. They didn't do anything to resolve the issues and were also mad at me.
Then come my neighbours. My bedroom windows were tinted and facing the corridor. I had the blinds open during daytime to let the sunlight in while everyone else in the complex had them closed for whatever reason. Whenever anyone crossed my windows they used to frown at them because they didn't like to be seen by me from inside.
So my neighbours were also angry on me for keeping the blinds open.
Everyone in the complex connived together and made a plan to send me out of the apartment by making my parents and relatives in the US believe I had schizophrenia. What my roommate did was he poured his detergent in the water pipes to make the water smell even worse. By showering in that water and drinking it my sensitivity to smell and sound increased a lot. Knowing that my sensitivity to sound had increased the management employed the service men to install cameras everywhere in my apartment and asked my upstairs neighbours to jump on their apartment floor  following me wherever I 
went. I couldn't tolerate the noise and complained about this to my parents and relatives. Two of my relatives are doctors and they immediately asked me to move out of the apartment and go back to my home country thinking I had paranoid schizophrenia.
It's been 3 years now and I am still being forced to take anti psychotics by my parents. Whatever explanation I give they simply refuse to believe me and say I had hallucinations that I was being monitored and if I stop the meds they will send me to a mental hospital. Kindly help me out of this situation. I don't want to take anti psychotic drugs anymore.