When I say stupid, I don’t mean so much being intellectually dumb as I mean having bad judgment and making bad decisions. I have a tendency to tell myself that few people could have made so many stupid mistakes about important things as I have. Also, I don’t seem to want to blame it all on the schizophrenia, I feel like some of it has just been my personal issues. Anyone else feel this way?
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Definitely yes, I do.
But when I look back I think I’ve had a strange life. I would have been damned if I did certain things and also damned if I didn’t do those things. So a lot of my life was a no-win scenario 
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My sz made me take bad judgements like trying suicide 3 times, voices/my sz told me to do it.
Mental illness can make you do bad judgements.
Yes, absolutely - I do things then after that I second guess why I didn’t do it better the first time …
I’ve definitely made some poor decisions over my lifetime.
A lot of it was due to my mental illness.
I’ve made some bad decisions, I’ll say that much
I think everyone has bad ideas and what was I thinking moments
i dont care whether i have been stupid or not.
i have lived life the way i want to
Yes. Very much relatable. May be the genetic structuring is to be blamed. Not the environment or people or anything else. Science still has to evolve.
Yeah, I have done several things and taken paths against better judgement or sound decisions. When you are unwell you do things like that.
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My schizophrenia has expressed (via voices and inserted thoughts) intelligence above that of my own. It seems to be better at problem solving than I was.
One of the most stupid things I’ve ever done is not moving to where I am earlier. My s/daughter had been trying to get me to do so for over a decade . I was too anxious over the process of doing so, and stayed where I was .
It took a greater fear of the plan to knock down my block of flats to persuade me to move . I was very anxious, but my stepdaughter did a wonderful job of sorting everything out .
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I have always made poor judgements and bad decisions throughout my life and it was almost never due to psychosis but always due to my sza illness.
Yea I’ve been really really stupid but who hasn’t.
I haven’t loved myself enough
I went for achievements which sound pretty stupid now eg. Therapist etc
As long as you learn from your mistakes it’s not a failure, but if you keep making the same mistake over and over then it is a failure. In fact, I believe that mistakes are a prerequisite to success.
Don’t take mistakes personally.
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Smoking crack and the stupid things I did while high or the stupid things I had to do in order to get high.
I consider myself reasonably intelligent but I’ve made lots of mistakes and bad choices. I’m talking about after I got clean. I’ve done a lot of things wrong, but like my sister used to tell me occasionally, I’m doing a lot of things right too. If I don’t do anything to make my neighbors kill me or injure me maybe in a couple of years I’ll be able to look back and laugh at this period in my life.
I’ve made many bad decisions in my life. I really didn’t listen to my parents and family when I was a teen. I did things that were destructive. I regret giving my parents so much grief. Especially my mom. I’m still learning to this day.
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Oh yeah. I’ve made some seriously stupid decisions. One almost killed me, put me in the hospital and physical rehabilitation.
Yes but regret may be a waste of my time.
Done is done.
It’s history now.
I made mistakes I regret but I’m not rubbing my nose in it.
I don’t think about it.
Not even my unborn son.