I’d agree with that one… 26 was a good age… got out of hospital… and group home… started pulling my life together… just started recovering from the head circus… was two years sober and fighting to stay clean…
I was so happy and healthy when I was 26. I just got sober, was running/working out daily. No mental or physical problems. But at the time I still was unhappy with myself and didn’t feel good enough. Gosh if I could be that guy again I would be married. Probably divorced by now though, since my husband probably would cheAt on me.
I just wouldn’t trust a man. I would go in thinking they will cheat eventually or maybe it could even be me. I just have to think of sex as eating a nice cuisine and not let the love part get involved. ■■■■■■■ pigs
26 was when I left psychiatric hospital with my wife to be and have never been back since. It was the start of moving up a level due to support that no one else(family or the psychiatric system) had given me. I may not have gone up many, or any, other levels but I did achieve that.
Kept a change of clothes in the back of my car all the time as had no idea where I was going to spend the night. Mind you in those days I could sleep anywhere, even the back of the car.
Sigh… closer to being 26 for the second time then I am to 26
When I was 26 a lot of religious stuff was happening and my sz was in remission. I was in the convent for the final time, then converted to Islam. It was an exciting time for me.
Seems like several people have experienced remission around 26 years old. It’s the same for me too, mostly. I’ve been clean for two years and have a family. This is far beyond the mess I was when I was unmedicated and trying to cope with the stress of university. Strangely, there is one voice that I miss.
26 pretty much sucked for me. I’m 30 now. The best times of my life I feel I have wasted. Now I’m waiting for age 36 to 37 most likely, I hope to have come off meds around that time. Money was once what I was always thinking about at one time and I wasn’t very good at getting it either but I had big plans. Now I look back at when I was working and think if I could live that time again I wouldn’t bother with full time work and 12 hour day and night shifts. I would just get a part time day job, buy a few beers and sit in the sun. See where my interests and hobbies could take me.