I have auditory hallucinations almost all the time. Meds don’t help. I can pretty much take care of myself though.
I’m waiting to get into subsidized housing in my town. I could get in faster at the next town over but I’d have to rely on public transportation which is crap in this area.
Where’s my measuring stick?
Oh yeah, in the garage.
Oh looky, something shiny…
my car keys, that’s where I left them, better put them away in my purse. grabs purse, heads out the front door, get’s into car
Where was I going again?
Hmmmm, Popeye’s chicken sounds good for dinner, I’m hungry.
Sweet.
If it weren’t for the help of the government and the meds i would probably be on a street corner begging. As it is I am able to keep an apartment, handle my own medicine, wash dishes and clothes, pay my bills, take showers, and sort of function. However I am not employed, have never had a serious romantic relationship or a family of my own, can’t drive, and live in the inner city because that’s where the support system is. When my doctors told me I was a high functioning schizophrenic I thought they must be kidding.
It’s hard to tell but if I had to hazard an answer I’d cautiously plump for mild. Symptoms certainly aren’t severe if you discount things like anxiety,social anxiety and social interaction difficulties. However those are very probably the greatest barrier to functioning among the psych symptoms.
Things are complicated somewhat by how much the undiagnosed ASD/NVLD/ learning difficulty impacts on things re day to day functioning and how much it affects the psych symptoms.
For someone with probably mild symptoms compared to many of you I don’t function that brilliantly ie never employed and no social network outside of family.