Hello everyone!
I did some tests through the municipality and it turns out being a teacher is best suited for a career. They also said according to the iq test that i should have no problems doing a bachelor.
I am stable only bored sometimes.
Do u think this is realistic, i googled if there are teachers who are prone to psychosis or have schizophrenia but i cant find any.
It takes someone special to teach kids. Personally, I couldn’t imagine myself standing up in front of 30 elementary or high school kids trying to teach them with all eyes focused on me. As a teacher you have to command some level of respect and I’m way to shy and awkward to be the center of attention of a bunch of kids. You may be able to do it though. Have you considered just doing one-on-one tutoring?
Maybe you could begin by volunteering as a teacher’s aide, and see if this job suits you. But if some of the students’ parents found out about your diagnosis there might be some flak over this discovery.
Im really good in front of groups so that’s a plus.
I signed up for a course to do that. Then i wont Experience that much pressure
Hey Rollo, about the bachelor degree is perfectly doable. The teacher thing requires a special kind of person, unless you are teaching at university level, in which you can do whatever you want or be however you want.
You’re not going to find any is my guess. Teachers have to be very circumspect about any information they share as there is always a group of parents who will react in a poor fashion and make a mess trying to get the teacher removed. (“Oh my god, our kids are being taught by an axe murderer!”)
I was a special ed teachers aide and substitute teacher for years.
I don’t think I could handle being a full time teacher.
In the end the stress got to me anyway
Now I’m on disability
I was working as a kids’ art teacher and teaching fashion design and clothing making to adult students. I had to hide my symptoms and illness in this work. I have huge self harm scars in both of my arms, shoulder to wrist, and I had to wear long sleeves all the time and that wasn’t very practical as art teachers have to wash their hands a lot and paint and stuff like that. people asked me why I didn’t wear short sleeves and it was very uncomfortable.
teaching adults is a different thing, but I got the feeling that no parent wants to have a schizophrenic to teach their child. I had to hide myself in the work and my symptoms. I’ve been doing pretty much ok for 15 years (except for these dissociative “episodes” I get on a weekly basis) but hiding myself all the time and fearing that my colleagues, or students, found out I was schizophrenic, was so distressing that now I am on disability pension. if I was able I would be a teacher, no doubt of it. I loved working with kids and adults and I have good social skills and it just comes naturally from me. but I can’t do it 
I decided not to do it, my therapist is also against it and also against social work, she thinks i have to choose for myself and find something fulfilling
I’m married to a teacher and she finds it fulfilling on most days.
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