If so, do you struggle in school? I’m having a really hard time and I was wondering how you dealt with everything.
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I graduated high school in 1985. And I’m so old, this was my first IPod…
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I graduated in 2014, got sick in 2015. Have been struggling to scrape together the broken pieces ever since.
I didn’t attend my graduation ceremony, I was prodromal and withdrawn and hated everybody at the time. I stayed home and ordered a pizza and had a great time by myself while everyone was out of the house conforming and acting “normal”. I hated high school and everyone there.
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@PatrickT @DragonStorm You guys are funny. 
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I’m really struggling. I tried keeping everything to myself (the beings wanted me to), but I freaked out one day and told a teacher about them. Got myself into this mess. I’m taking meds now and they’re helping some (mostly with my mood) but I’m still struggling to make it through the day sometimes, especially when I’m at school.
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i really feel for you, i got sick a year and a half out of high school, so i was able to finish okay. idk how i would have done it if i got sick before graduation. i wouldn’t have been able to finish strong, or even finish at all.
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@Anon10 Yeah, my teachers are kinda just dragging me along at this point. I think I’m gonna graduate, but Spring Break’s soon, and I’m not sure how that’s gonna go. I’m glad you were able to finish high school though. I think it’s important, and I’m trying, but struggling.
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;o i wouldnt mind trying that out actually. they seem interesting but i never saw one in real life. so great to hear senior citizens talk about the “days”.
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i pulled out of school to do it online after seventh grade, stopped after 11th grade and got a ged since i wouldnt have been able to get a diploma anyway. one of the first warning signs during like, 11th grade, that something was amiss was when i lost all motivation to do school and lost the patience and concentration needed for it, and didnt pick it back up until i got put on abilify for a lil bit. i was someone who always did great in school, all A’s with the occasional B, but when i was getting symptomatic i just stopped completely for like six months
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i went to high school for like 1 and a half school years and stopped going when i started having psychosis, i took a long break than switched to online high school and finished in january it only took me 5 months to complete it and i finished sooner than i would have if i stayed in public school. i wish i would have known about this online school before i first started going to high school because i probably could have graduated at like 14 instead of 17
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@korieve Yeah school is really difficult. I was in marching band and I was fine. After marching band ended, I started losing motivation to do my homework and schoolwork. The beings started talking to me over Winter Break. They say they’ve been here the whole time, and I figure that any abnormalties in my thoughts happened because my soul developed around a seed that God put in the world to go to random living souls to make his story (our reality) more interesring. The beings are entangled in my thoughts, and they’re why I have OCD, Asperger’s Syndrome, etc. At least that’s the theory right now.
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I don’t think it’s worth it for me now since I have like 3 months until I graduate, but I’m glad you found a solution. 
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I had psychotic depression during my last year of high school. It was really rough. I missed a lot of school and had trouble keeping up with some of my classes. Luckily I had understanding teachers and went to a really tiny school.
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@LED Yeah, my teachers have been really nice about it so far, but I’m worried that might change if things don’t improve quickly enough. My therapist doesn’t think it’s a good idea for me to be reading George Orwell’s 1984 so my mom’s emailing my English teacher about it. A couple of my teachers seem afraid of me though.
Things never really improved for me through that last year. I was in and out of the hospital, had doctor’s and therapist appointment several times a week. I missed a LOT of school. I had the advantage of being pretty smart, though, so even though I didn’t always do homework or seem to be paying enough attention in class I still did alright on tests. I took AP Chem that year and actually did really well in it I think because of the psychosis. It was just a big puzzle. AP Calculus on the other hand was a mess, but I had an awesome teacher that fudged my grade so I could still graduate with honors.
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I was also really aggressive and some of my teachers saw me lose my ■■■■ a few times, but I was all of like 85 lbs back then, so not like they couldn’t easily restrain me.
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This year I took all AP classes exept for band, which was fine until the beings started distracting me from my schoolwork. I’m less aggressive, more jumpy, enough for people to notice. People think it’s cute to scare me, but it’s whatever I guess. The medicine has made things easier so far, but I’m still struggling. More of my homework’s getting done at least. Everyone likes that. Ugh I hate life.
I graduated in 2013. It was really hard for me to get through. I started feeling bad when i was 17. I couldn’t talk to anyone about it and if i did they told me to stop.
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@KingKazuma My mom doesn’t like it when I talk about this stuff at school. She says that the school can call 911 and get me involuntarily committed. I sometimes freak out and spill to people at school and I get into trouble every single time.