The Schizophrenia.com Discussion forums are friendly places for you to meet other people who have been impacted by schizophrenia. Here you'll meet many people who have schizophrenia, as well as parents , husbands and wives, sons and daughters, and many other family members and other caregivers and professionals.

The discussion forums are designed as on-line support groups for anyone who wants to share their knowlege and experiences and learn more about schizophrenia and related issues.

With over 49,000 registered and active users of these discussion areas you can be sure you'll meet other people dealing with many of the same problems and issues that you are. Many of the members here have ideas or experiences on what treatments or approaches work better than others. We encourage you to join in and share and learn from each other and support each other. It operates as an on-line bulletin board where you post your message any time of the day or week, and during the day other people will read and post responses to your message. Then you can visit here again later (usually a few days later) and read and post more messages.

To allow the discussion area software to work properly you must register as a member (and accept the software "cookie" that allows it to show you only the new messages when you sign on each time). The information you provide (name, etc.) does not have to be your real name - in fact for anonymity and freedom to discuss sensitive issues we encourage you to use a name you've made up.

If you enter the discussion areas as a "Guest" you can still read the messages (but not post your own messages). You'll need to register to participate in the discussions. Click on the upper right corner of the message forums where it says "login" to register and post messages.

Before you begin posting messages, we encourage you to use the "Search" feature in the discussion areas. These discussion areas have been operating for many years now and there are over 150,000 messages already (in the old discussion forums - but fewer in the new discussion forums) so there are sure to be discussions that took place in the past on any subject of interest to you. So as not to constantly repeat questions - we recommend that you review older conversations on a topic of interest to you, then post your own new questions.

To enter the different discussion areas - just go to the home page of www.schizophrenia.com - and click on the discussion area link that you think is most appropriate for you.

We also have a number of country-specific areas for people to talk with other people from the same country. These areas are quite new and still don't have the volume of users that the above discussion areas have - so we encourage everyone to participate in the main discussion areas above as well as any country-specific discussion areas that is also of interest.