I’m starting to vape instead of smoke. Lol that’s about as much as I’ve got. I can hold a job? There’s that too. But just barely.
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I quit drinking and smoking cigarettes, two things I never thought I could do.
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I learned how to care for my mom and dad while they were ill/incapacitated, something I’ve never done before in my life (because it was never needed) and I’ve learned just how rewarding it feels to be helpful.
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i’ve quit drinking recently, wasn’t easy. Have been losing weight steadily
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What was “the right med”, I’m still looking for it?
I quit smoking and got my weight under control. I am learning to live with others and you can tell me “No” without my going through the roof.
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I parted the seas in this bitch.
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I only got diagnosed a year and a half ago. I am going to Community College so I feel like that’s something. It is for me, anyway.
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Thanks @everhopeful for that thread. Very inspiring. I am myself also proud of a few things, but sometimes it’s difficult to focus on good sides. I will try to start my every day of counting my blessings😊
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Being married for seven years
Stopping smoking 11 years ago
Last hospital almost 11 years ago
Writing full-length play and having it in production at the moment
A long time ago going travelling in South Africa for three months on my own
Achieving five years of yoga including teachers training
five years running for a year running half marathons every three months
Working on an organic vegetable farm eight hours days three days a week
Having a play scratch night at the Rose, Bankside London which is the first theatre of Shakespeare before the globe was built almost next door
A book of poems in the pipeline to being published later this year
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mine was 20 mg of abilify
Quitting smoking isn’t trivial at all, that’s a major feat. Congrats. 
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Yes, I composed, recorded, produced, distributed and promoted three light contemporary classical music albums from my own music label in 2011, 2012, and 2016. And I earned recognition from YouTube.com for three of my tracks from two of my albums in their Contemporary Classical Music Video category, in the year 2012. I am very proud of these accomplishments. My albums can be heard on my website: www.MyOwnAnthony.com
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I finished Linear Algebra with A+.
I stopped watching porn.
congrats on quiting, everhopeful.
this is a very good motivational optimistic thread.
you should’ve seen my face when reading everyone’s achievement down the list and then reading this one.
lol lol lol lol
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I finished my first semester of grad school.
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I was a professional artist a couple of years…
I am an accomplished cook/chef from cooking myself through college. I am saying that I am proud of my cooking.
Proud of my guitar playing, proud of my banjo playing.
Proud of my family we are close.
I quit smoking 130 days ago.
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Before my first episode in 2011 I was accepted with an unconditional to do physics at university…I had my first psychotic episode a few months before that university course started and I had to delay my start time for a full year before I could sit the course again.
I then when I went back to university in September 2012 to do physics again, though I only lasted until January 2013 as I suffered from a second, much more severe, episode of psychosis, that landed me 5 months in hospital until July 2nd 2013. That meant I had to obviously withdraw from the course for good…however for the time I did spent at university from September until January I did achieve passes in both physics and maths with 80% in maths and 60% in physics earning me some credits. (achievement 1)
After I got discharged in July 2013 I was feeling at my best for a long time, positive and negative symptoms both gone after a long trial with drugs…I took up voluntary work in February 2014 until May 2014 in a local hospice (achievement 2). I also socialised a lot more as I met new people in my local pub that I was friends with for a good year, I went out fairly often and was quite close to them…I had a boat party on my boat in July 2014 (achievement 3). I then applied to another university in England (I live in Scotland) and got ANOTHER unconditional to study Meteorology and Climate starting October 2014. (achievement 4). However I only lasted a year for that course as my negative symptoms started to grab hold of me again, coupled with very bad sleeping patterns and concentration/cognitive function, which eventually made me withdraw from the course again for the 3rd time in May 2015.
I moved back up to Scotland in May 2015 and have done literally nothing with my life for 2 years now as my sleeping pattern has been so disabling along with my negative symptoms.
I am going to talk to my doctor about changing my tablets and possibly getting referred to be assessed in a psychiatric unit out of my own will to sort my sleeping and negative symptoms.
My point being is that I have had 4 major achievements since my first episode psychosis however my life is still on hold, and I have also developed a gambling problem since then too.
Thanks if you read that all the way through! Lol.
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And just on another note, congrats to everyone on here who are proud to tell us about their achievements! it was good reading through them all and hearing about so many different stories and successes, may all your success continue in the future!
L x
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I don’t live in a treatment facility anymore, quit drugs, found medicine that works for me, learned how to fix bikes, and made a videogame.
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Found medication that works for me (zyprexa and haldol and I’m weight neutral on them) I sleep great now.
Been a cashier at the dollar tree for over 2 years. I don’t have to worry about money.
Now have a good relationship with my father who I live with.
I’m getting better at writing music and have a nice guitar.
The thing I’m happiest about is I’ve made some major progress spiritually and now feel like I have answers to many of my questions.
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