I got my grade 10. Half way through it i could tell i started getting sick. Probably from the first time i smoked weed when i was 14. I went from 2005 to 2009 undiagnosed. Came close to hanging myself in my dads garage when i was 19 in 2007. the same day chris benoit killed his family and hung himself. Was contemplating in 2009 had a cd with all my favorite songs then my dad took me to 5 north. Back to 2007 i was sitting there and as soon as i got up my brother walked in and looked like he saw a ghost. I had the rope tied aswell.
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Grade 10? Are you Canadian? They talk about that a lot in trailer park boys. I graduated high school, I stayed out of trouble that point in my life.
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Fck meant to put this in dxd my bad
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Yes, I finished high school. Some people here have masterās degrees. There might even be someone with a PhD here.
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Yes im canadian best country in the world man
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Yeah I did. My illness started getting strong around the same time as yours, only I didnāt know I was getting sick I thought I was having a spiritual revelation 
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Moved to DXād - Other. 
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I graduated high school with an outstanding diploma,perhaps one that missed the subject physics
and I definitely should have studied at open university during high school and should have been working out.
I am not exactly proud of that period, I had mild cognitive impairment, I didnāt work out and I didnāt study at university
and my social cognition was underdeveloped.
But compared to now- oh wellā¦
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I went down all the wrong roads when I was young, got kicked out of school in grade 7
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noā¦cant stand peopleā¦ I made it to 10th gradeā¦ dropped out got the crappy ged the same dayā¦ I did make it through 18 months of extensive explosive disposal trainingā¦ and I lack 2 months worth of schooling and 1 test to get my green electricians diplomaā¦ I also clep tested a bunch of college classes in various subjects mostly computer relatedā¦ I donāt know if clep is the right wordā¦i took the final and bypassed sitting through the classesā¦
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I made it through school despite horrible bullying, then took a break for a good few years before doing 2 college courses and then a uni degree, I have no idea how I managed to cope with all that when I was so clearly ill, I was always seen as very eccentric but highly intelligent, so despite my bizarre behaviour I was somehow accepted by my peers at college and uni, but I think my obsession with socialism helped me get through my degree because by then I was having full blown manic and psychotic episodes but I was so involved in the coursework I somehow managed to do it even though I was in a mental mess. I did end up having to leave uni before I got my masters degree though as I ended up getting sectioned for 6 months. I wanted to to a PhD but I have never been well enough to go back and study since then unfortunately. How I made it through all that while having bipolar mood swings and schizophrenic episodes I honestly donāt know looking back, there were suicide attempts, self harm, fire setting, all sorts of strange behaviour. Somehow I was accepted at uni although I was āpolitely asked to leaveā a number of jobs because of my behaviour. I allow myself to feel proud that I made it as far as I did when I was so ill, but I do regret that I never fulfilled my dreams of going all the way (I wanted to be a sociology lecturer, I doubt that will ever happen now.)
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I beat up the bully in grade 8 and nobody fĆcked around after that
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I wish Iād been that brave. Good for you!
My freshmen year was when I really got sick and spent six months in the hospital. A lot of hard work, I eventually got my grades back up to Bās/Aās and graduated a year later than I was supposed to. I didnāt have much of a social life back then, I felt like such an outcast only because of my illness but at the time I was going to a 90% African American High school, and being Irish/German Iām about as white as you can get. Plus I was really overweight thanks to my medication. So I kept my head down in my books and ignored any teasing eventually they got bored with me and moved on to other kids. I was fine with that. I just wanted to graduate.
Senior year of high school I was accepted into a local two year college and got an associates degree in computer applications and programming. Many years later, I went on and got a bachelorās degree in health administration from university of phoenix online.
I never really had a problem with school, as I love to learnā¦itās working I have issues.
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Same I just thought I had been chosen by god to teach people and I seriously thought I was talking to him. In the same note, it has me wonder if most of the āspiritually enlightenedā people in history may have also had schizophrenia
But no, I did not graduate high school
I graduated with all right grades. But then I didnāt have really strong symptoms just prodromal type stuff. Just the odd grandiose delusion and low motivation and slight anhedonia.
I graduated because my mom expected no less.
She always told us kids that when I graduated (because Iām the last kid) she was going to throw a big party-to celebrate us kids getting the fk out-of her house.
Check out time was 18 years old!
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I was prodromal around the end of 12th grade, I didnāt even attend my graduation ceremony, just stayed home watching old cartoons and ordered a pizza while my whole family attended it. I hated and feared everyone in high school. The next year I took 2 community college classes and got decent grades, then online in spring 2015. I submitted my application for the state university late and got waitlisted. My high school Gpa was spotty but I did some good things in AP classes and my SATs were above average. I never took physics the last year of high school, I knew I donāt have the brain for math/science type things and have always been average to below average at them. If I had taken physics I would have struggled to pull a C. Some science subjects I was great at, like anatomy because my momās an MD. But I got a D+ in calc AB and slept through the AP exam. At the end I stopped trying.
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