Do you ever feel like sometimes half the battle with sz is sometimes your family? When im doing really good my family is ok, but when im really sick they kinda use my illness against me and they hurt my feelings alot. I got a love hate feeling towards my dad and sister
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Yes and no. My biggest stressor is that my wife has a need to be with her side of the family and I have a need to keep them out of my life as they negatively affect my health.
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I mean this just reminds me of when i’d be too unwell to function and everyone would yell at me for not functioning.
Other than that i’ve done everything I could this past year and a half to distance myself from family. Just can’t fix those relationships.
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Yeah the brother does that. Hes got zero understanding of my mental health. In fact the nurses know me better than him. He says im just talking crap. I dont bother sharing it with him anymore.
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I experienced a lot of high expressed emotion from both my parents, but especially my mother. She saw any heightened degree of emotion on my part,especially if it involved holding a different opinion to hers, a sign of my schizophrenia. My father gave mixed messages i.e treated me as young for my age due to the illness vs expected me to pay half my benefit money,or more for keep - because people my age - if not at college/university were in jobs. My mental illness became something extra to use to verbally attack each other.
It wasn’t until I met my future wife in hospital that I progressed from being a chronic schizophrenic patient of the type that would never use a site such as this, or indeed ever use a computer. to where I am now. Not doing great things, by stereotypical standards, but doing a lot better than was thought possible.
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Same here. My family helps me out a lot though. It’s tough love
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This is enough true.
Yes i relate i have a hard relationship with my parents , they upset me deeply and often
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