Dealing with Life with SZ - To the more experienced Sz patients and family members

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Things were bad for me at first, but have steadily been improving over time. Answered this in more detail in another thread…

Can you go on double your life?

I’m forty-seven now. Things started getting weird on me early in my twenties and I was diagnosed around age twenty-four. I think. Those years are a bit jumbled in my head as I wasn’t doing well. Lots of visits to the hospital. Lots of med changes. Lots of side-effect problems with meds. Lots of depression and suicidal thinking. Long stretches where I was so non-functional I wasn’t even toileting myself properly or attending to personal hygiene. Making everything worse, I actually had doctors writing me off and telling me my illness was so severe that I would never get that much better. They would be able to use medication to make me more comfortable with all the crap in my head, but I woul…

Getting late here and I have to hit the sack as I’m photographing a large wedding tomorrow. Income is income is income. If there are any questions you’d like me to answer, I’d be happy to.

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