to ppl who suffered from severe mental illness
and succeed to grab on reality
and not to be drown in hallucinations !!!
do you anyone with MI live a happy life ?it is like impossible question to be asked right ?
can you advice me i m now 31 yo and 8 months i become ill since i was 20 yo?
is it impossible to be happy ?
Me too, I am 32 right now and ill since 21.
Hope of having a happy life, is a good inspiration.
I believe, no matter what happens, its life, no one is immortal.
So what I am going to do with mortality,
how to make my self valuable to others.
Just being here reading and replying to you,
makes me happy right now.
If I just adjust the meaning of happiness,
I could be happy on every moment.
Yesterday, I had a thought.
I have defined, everything around me.
So, what I have defined, is around me.
Null feeling is good start.
Only when I am empty,
I could fill something in it.
This is not the last chapter of my life.
Its up to me to make a new chapter,
or rewriting the previous ones.
Or I am just being positive.
I think its helpful to be realistic about your expectations.
If you want a to earn decent income, own your house, have a nice car, support/raise a family, go on sunny holidays every year - this is a reality that many normal people struggle to achieve today. The financial economy has shifted a lot in the last 40 years and I see many people my age working their arses off to just get by.
The big issue for us is that a lot of us struggle with work. And how can we ground ourselves, when working people struggle to do that given that we don’t work. This is a question that when I get depressed really beats me over the head and tells me I am incapable of true happiness and adult life.
But when I am not depressed I am grateful for having somewhere to live, for having food, for being able to buy clothes, for drinking nice coffee, eating nice chocolate, spending time with my friends, playing music. etc etc.
It really is a matter of perspective.
If you simply seek to be emotionally stable and free of delusion/hallucination - it is something you can work to. Find the right meds. Find someone you can confide in emotionally. Work on remaining calm when you do have these experiences and rationalising it etc.
But a big part of the picture for me was accepting I have limitations that ordinary people don’t have and to stop guilt tripping myself for not being able to participate in many “normal” things.
Its possible that you will never truly extinguish all hallucinations in your life, but you can learn to manage them.
When did you last have a medication review @saynow
Do you have many people around to talk to about your life?
I found it a big difference having a support worker to call and talk to about my anxieties/issues/problems etc.
I’m 32 and I’m quite happy
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