I wonder if people from wealth have a better chance of recovery due to access to the best healthcare money can buy. My family is only middle class and I’ve been on my own with very low income for several years now.
Nope not wealthy at all.
No, my mom used to make six figures but then she got sick with an incurable bladder disease and is now on disability. My stepdad’s parents are millionaires, one being a retired Naval officer with government pension.
I don’t see a dime of any of that money, and I don’t ask. I’m the one kid out of the three that isn’t related to them by blood and am the only one they don’t really offer money to. They helped once with two grand for school but they’ve given hundreds of thousands to my abusive stepfather with no strings attached.
So I’m a poor man in a rich family with a mother who’s on disability. Red headed step child. I’m pretty sick of it too. Gonna move out here to CA and be even poorer lol. Getting things together to do that.
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It’s a worthwhile question.
You find that there’s a link between wealth and schizophrenia. I know for my tests with the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank there were those questions. It’s been reported in the literature.
I’m from poor financially but wealthy emotionally. I missed money as a kid but I’ve been independent and lived with money and without. My emotional needs have always been met which is why I can live on a pension and help out the old man with the bills. I don’t need much financially these days.
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my family is middle class as well, probably on the upper end of it. you certainly do see more schizophrenia in poorer populations, I imagine due to extra stressors which cause the illness to surface, as well as a more negative outcome for the illness generally speaking.
I’d say you probably see the poor outcome for the illness due to the lack of access to quality care, as well as since poorer people tend to have less community assistance and understanding for their issues. poorer communities tend to have a lot of issues going on in them, so I imagine the schizophrenic man down the road wouldn’t be the main concern of his neighbors or even of his own family at times.
just a lil qualification for my statement there, by that I don’t mean that poor people are unsympathetic or anything, just that they typically have more pressing matters to attend to rather than taking loads of their time up to try and improve others situations rather than their own.
Or it’s genetic too.
Poorer people have existing mental health problems. I know in my family there’s other folks who suffer.
So. Not environmental markers but genetic.
There’s curious spikes like in the Netherlands after the second world war. A spike in schizophrenia which they attributed to people who were starving due to famine. It’s a curious question for sure!
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oh yes, I’m not meaning to say it isn’t genetic, schizophrenia is certainly more common in people who have family members with the illness as well, and the severity of the illness seems to be pretty consistent within them as well. however, from what know, the genes which cause schizophrenia typically lie dormant without there being significant stressors at play on top of it. typically the full onset of it is triggered by something, which is why I believe the stress within poor communities contributes to the problem
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I’m from a wealthier than average family though not a super rich one.
It does seem that schizophrenia is more predominant in middle class to lower middle class families. Although, I am not completely sure about that. I guess because of the stigma involved if anyone did get SZ from a rich and affluent family they probably wouldn’t announce it in the open, besides the handful of celebrities we know about who have suffered the illness.
I can just imagine someone with a lot of money who could talk to all the leading doctors and therapists would be a lot better off than someone so poor they needed government assistance.
My family is working class though im the only one with sz. Both my parents were alcoholic but recovered before i was born (im 21, they were sober for 25 years before mum passed)
My family are poor, but my mother and stepfather had pretty good jobs and got themselves a nice place. They renovated an old pub and sold it for lots of money.
I am on my own financially though. I work four days a week and earn a national average salary. I do well for money, but I find working can be a bit of a drain, but I guess it is for most people.
I have a small amount of savings, and if I balance my spending on my spreadsheet, I get through most months with a little left over.
A lot of people can make a little money go a long way. As with anything, depends what you spend it on and how high your expectations are.
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SO judging from most of the posts here, most of us with SZ are pretty poor. Not surprising but it does suck.
No, and I’m poor. My dad works and my mom doesn’t. My stepdad supports us. I live with my mom. We struggle.
I guess we are middle class.
I want a career so I can be rich someday.
A lot of schizophrenics get sick before they could reach their potential. An exception would be john nash.
Technically, I’m an anomaly and shouldn’t have schizophrenia. Mine was from drug induced psychosis over 8 years ago. I come from middle class and had a perfect birth. The only thing I remember is my mom eating a lot of shrimp, eating and craving el polo loco, having stupid cats, and an early divorce. My dad was emotionally abusive when I was younger. He had anger problems. He either has ocd, ocpd, or very mild aspergers. Sometimes I think he is a narcissist but he has changed a lot since I got sick.
I don’t see things or hear things. I just get delusions, anxiety, paranoia, and depression, along with cognitive problems. I have low motivation.
If I didn’t have schizophrenia I would have been a multimillionaire investment banker. Schizophrenia ruined my life but I’m trying to get better. I havent given up. I love science and math.
I was raised by a single parent on welfare, so, no. And she was a crappy parent, as well.
I’m not from a wealthy family, but both my parents have a college degree so that helped a bit…
I think as meds are becoming more and more accessible, as the years go by, more generics are available. Maybe that will help a lot of people that are low earners make more money by being more functional, although everybody has a different level of incapacity and that of course has to be in mind when you try to find a job.
You may think too that some jobs have professional diseases too, so there’s people who work not at their full capacities and they are also limited for the rest of their lives. So it isn’t easy to nobody 
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