Often hear sz people saying sz ruined their relationship / they can’t find love / they can’t give love etc. What are your thoughts?
i delude i am in love
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I think love is like anything else, you will only do something so many times that hurts you, before you stop doing it.
Things can be fine, but when my depression or sz gets worse, I can be hard to live with. The majority of people will only put up with it for a short period of time. Then you are left sitting there feeling even worse . So why bother in the first place.
Can I Love sure, will I, probably talk myself out of getting close to anyone now in real life, I do have a online friend I care a lot about, but in tough times you can turn off the electronics and not become a pain for them.
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My thoughts are yes, schizophrenia has ruined things for me.
I have schizophrenia, so others wouldn’t be interested in me.
Since my diagnosis, I’ve lost interest in being in a relationship anyway. Although, I must admit a desire to be in a relationship comes and goes. But in general , it’s not there anymore.
I had plenty of relationships before my diagnosis, but they never worked out, i.e. I didn’t get married! 
I can’t love because of schizophrenia
I don’t know if it’s the same for others with sz but my own experience is that many positive emotions are shadows of what they should be, watered down versions of what normans experience. Poverty of emotions. But still, I loved a woman more than I loved myself, love is possible for a person with sz I think.
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I have trouble expressing emotions to other people and processing them correctly, but yes I believe I am in love with my partner. She’s one amazing chick! 
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Uhhh… it’s funny how love and hate can go hand in hand… for some reason some people just resonate properly… they affect the body and the mind… they get in deep. It breeds an obsession or crush, a fascination with their presence because for some reason it makes life and dreams of future life seem fantastic. However, when that presence doesn’t treat you right and leaves you stranded… it’s so easy to start despising the source of the force. That it must be left ripe and unplucked… the thought that the fruit of the self is not similarly satiating and that without being plucked it will die on the branch… it’s potential laying in wait for another season and another chance to bloom…
So no… I’m not in love… not any more. I’m in respite as I watch my fruit die inside. … and at least trying to be kind about it.
… am a fan of romance though.
I fall in love very easily, or so I’m told. I don’t think sz ruined anything, more not facing up to problems. I hate telling someone else that they are annoying me, so I tell myself I am not annoyed. It works mostly but sometimes you need to meet your own needs too.
I feel very numb and zombie like from all the medicine and now that I am more active I feel my pains and aches from being over weight. I don’t really love myself I consider myself kind of ugly and useless nowadays. I’m trying to accomplish more on the guitar but latley I’ve been glued to the forum just to talk about some of the things I’ve been through.
I have a girlfriend, I love her very much and this month is our three year anniversary. It’s a beautiful thing, I love and depend on my girlfriend very much.
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Nope no no way nah
These days I’m not in love. I’ve had crushes but nothing too serious. Once was in love but it didn’t work out. Wish I never fell in love so it could have spared the both of us.
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I feel I can relate to your post 100%
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I’ll be lovin’ my lunch in about ten minutes. Surprisingly, a couple of people have told me recently that they can see me getting married but I have my doubts. I don’t miss not being married. A little sex wouldn’t be bad. It may sound lame but I feel that I do have love inside me.
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I fall in love every few weeks.
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I have delusions involving love, but I know that I can very easily fall in love. The thing is that I can fall in love with someone while barely knowing them and I can be in love with multiple people at once. It really sucks. In terms of being in love right now, I think that I am very much in this situation.
Don’t really feel attraction toward the opposite sex in the same way now. Live kinda as a recluse because I’m trying to conserve cash. Maybe after I get a stable job I can find a woman to be with. Don’t know how I would go about doing that. I might have to be one of those guys that asks women out in grocery stores. Other than church and playing magic I don’t know of other places I would be to ask out women. Tried online dating. If you are male that’s a sham.
Have you ever thought about being polyamorous? Several of my friends are poly because they had the same problem of falling in love with more than one person at a time. It has worked great for them.
I’m personally very in love and very monogamous. I just got married, so I am really sure about this. Mr. Star is the coolest, most amazing person to ever exist, and we work well as a team.
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