Maybe I never got licensed as an architect, but I got to go to Architectural school and that was an experience I would never trade. Made life long friends in college… I believe putting myself through college cooking in restaurants made me sz. It was very ardous road to put myself through. I didn’t get sz until age 35. so I feel robbed in one hand, and blessed in the other.
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late at night I often think back to my times staying up all night in the arch studios doing deadline projects all night. good times…everyone was there in my class when it was deadline.
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Yeah was for me too and I was just doing an arts degree.
Still. Those things I learned there carried with me through life like any other.
It’s good you got to matriculate to University and you deserved that place. F sz for making it so hard in the long run…
You should be proud of your experience. You really should because with mental illness most times your going at it with a hand tied behind your back.
Much peace matey. You did well.
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aw thanks man ! I feel happy that I have a degree on my wonder gazing wall in my living room…my grandmother once told me when I graduated, " they can’t take that from you". made me happy.
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Its a good thing you got it later in life 35 ( although it would have been better if you didnt get it at all )
I got schizophrenia at 23 years old
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I wish college had been an option. I moved out from my home with the intent of going to school, but my mother wound up following me and draining the $$$ set aside (my alcoholism drained the other half and then SZ hit me). So much for that.
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College was never a realistic option for me. I didn’t have the independent living skills to cope with it, and there was far less help and support for people like me back then. On top of that there was,and still is, the ‘bullying related trauma’.
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I did one semester of college but I was the guitarist in jazz band and it stressed me out because im horrible at reading sheet music
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well done, i can’t imagine studying with schizophrenia, every time i’ve enrolled, my hallucinations have become constant. i did manage to study for 6 months but it was pure hell as i heard the teachers and students talking about the course and talking negatively about me, at the same time.
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I went to college but I kind of regret it, I wasted time studying a career I can never get, Also those people who like too brag about their college degree constantly every five minute at work can eat a banana.
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That’s cool. I always wanted to get a degree. I’m kinda getting over it now. I started getting sick at 16 and did one semester in college. I was pretty bad my 11th and 12th grade year in highschool though. I knew early on I was ■■■■■■. I asked my dad when I was 16 or 17 what I was going to do. He said your smart your funny you can do anything. I felt deep down that I wasn’t gonna make it though. This was before anyone knew how sick I was.
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I survived nursing school hanging by a thread. Even though I graduated with a 3.0 GPA. And I got through 8 years of my RN career literally by the skin of my teeth. But I ultimately ended up losing my license to practice when my sza illness was discovered by the state board of nursing back in 1993 before the ADA was enacted.
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I’m glad to hear you got something out of it.
I got a diploma in graphic design from a local college back back in the mid 90s. I never questioned that I’d become some kind of artist and this was my big mistake. I didn’t work to become talented in anything else. I didn’t work on my personality, which most people found bad. Before going to college, I worked a year in a related industry and hated every minute of it. Growing up, I used art as an escape to life, and when people criticized me over stuff, it was extra painful, because I was used to getting a ton of compliments. I was so isolated too, stuck in a cubicle, one of the youngest people in the company. I had no idea how to make friends.
After getting the diploma, I felt like I was just a tool making a ton of changes to stuff. Nobody ever liked what I did unless there were a million changes. I was also shy and companies loved extroverts much more. I was in and out of work all the time. I got SZ when I was 24. I had low self esteem because I couldn’t move into an apartment of my own, the industry was that unstable. This condition slowly got worse over time, and I struggled to hide it, and hold jobs. SZ ruined my life. So did graphic design. Personally, I don’t feel blessed at all no matter how much stuff I put into my gratitude box. Today is a bad day.
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