Sadly, this is a really common symptom in schizophrenia… search on the term “cheating” in this forum and you’ll see it comes up often. Here are some that my provide some value to you:
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I’m looking for support or ideas about dealing with the constant accusations of cheating? My husband recently(1st hospitalization in June 2018) started having paranoia and consequently started believing things about me that aren’t true. I’m a social worker and have done some reading trying to handle things better. But idk how to sympathize with underlying emotions when it’s all directed at. me ! It’s even getting to the point where he claims he saw me with another …
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I’m overwhelmed. I love my husband, we have a great friendship a lot of the time, we can talk for hours. He has past relationships where women have cheated on him. Every time I slip up and am gone too long or type something incorrectly or say something without thinking or we get into a fight, he latches onto it and says I am cheating on him. I have never so much as looked at another man or women in the entire time we’ve been tighter and years before nor would I ever. I have been dishonest about …
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My husband constantly accuses me of cheating. He is loving one day and paranoid the next accusing me of sleeping with several people. At work he checks on me constantly. Uses find my iPhone to verify my movements. Stays on the phone to hear who and what I am saying. Constantly asks for proof when I tell him I was busy at work or when out with friends. He’s emotionally draining. Is there anyone else out there living this beyond insane life. I’m broken, but somehow can’t leave. My strength has bee…
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My husband is struggling now with what we think is paranoid schizophrenia. We are waiting on his official diagnosis, though getting him to go to his appointments seems impossible. He is constantly accusing me of cheating on him. Saying when I am at work I am sneaking out with men he knows to sleep with them (I do not believe in cheating and I have never and will never cheat on him). He constantly accuses me of talking when I am not even speaking!! The other day I was holding a cup up to my mouth…
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Hello. My boyfriend have paranoid schizophrenia. We are in relationship for more than a year. We live together and everything was good. Until recently, at first he start to ask me if I am masturbating (when I was laying down to rest or to sleep). I was not masturbating and I was telling him that, but he was not believing me. We spoke about it with him, he also spoke with his doctor and it seems that he get better and don’t have such thought anymore. But than he starts to think that I am cheating…
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