I recently reached out to my friends to hang out and it has improved my mood greatly. I no longer need this forum more than once every now and then. So if I don’t post much it’s because I’m happy elsewhere.
Well my friends are
Dan-20 years old really smart, really fun and agreeable and easy going
Charlie- sza and on clozaril. He seeems to have solved his issues but he gained 100 lbs on clozaril! Real fun to be around though
Mike l-lives 35 miles away so more of a texting friend but he’s super supportive and comes up occasionally
Mike k-sz and real chill down to earth hippie type apologized for not being a good friend because he ignored me for 6 months. Said cuz he works full time now. But trying to get together now.
Sam- this guy is a conundrum. He’s so mysterious I don’t get it. But lately wants to hang out more. He’s hard to get in touch with. I think he just is content alone. But we’re supposed to hang out today. I’ve known him for a decade. We used to hang out daily, but he truly is mysterious. But I can’t control him but I think he’d be my best friend if he wasn’t so mysterious we get along real well but oh well.
Jay- online friend but we have everything in common
Trevor- online friend but our relationships been slipping. He has a lot of issues. More than the sza or sz kid.
Then there’s another kid who I gave a chance. I’m not gonna say his name. But he’s sza. I think he has too many issues to deal with. Intolerable. He’s an addict with personality disorders too. And he’s gone psychotic on me.
But yeah I’m pretty content with my social stimulation outside my family right now. All I need is a girlfriend. U don’t have to put ur friends name if u choose to participate in the thread btw. U can just say friend 1,2,3 etc.
But life is good. Trying to hang out almost every day with a friend is my goal!
My friends from hs weren’t real friends. Maybe it was the culture of my stupid town. But they all ditched me when I got sick. None of these kids would ditch me. Some of them have stood the test of me getting ill…they’ve stuck with me and I’m grateful for that. I’m open to all of them about my mi and they are all supporting.
I hope this continues to work for you. I was doing great until early May when I came back to this site. Then I slowly saw myself slipping more and more. People’s delusions feeding into mine and whatnot. Then 4 days ago I stopped frequenting this forum often, I reached out to real life friends, I started working out a tiny bit (20 push-ups per day) and started watching tv shows (stranger things). This site serves its purpose for me for a while as a coping mechanism but I don’t think it’s a long term solution for me. I will still come on occasion. But my mindset has improved so dang much by being more in reality than computer internet virtual reality while not knowing who people really truly are. I suggest seeking out real social contacts. It’s easier said than done to meet ppl u vibe with. I tend to hang out with ppl with a lot of the same issues as me and it works well. I’m really happy and glad that I felt compelled to make this thread. I’m not bragging about my friends just happier than I was a week ago.
I don’t have friends but I used to have one friend that ive known since 4th grade, he changed a lot over time and basically we would just get high a lot but we would laugh a lot and he was someone I could actual talk to and not feel uncomfortable, but when I became crazy and stopped doing drugs we stopped talking so I’m convinced he was just using me for my drug money, I don’t know if I will make more friends in the future because I don’t really trust many people and where I live I feel like I cant trust anyone
U will make friends once u get them meds right. You’re a smart cool interesting kid imo!! U have a lot going for you even if u don’t realize it since ur only 16 and going through your issues right now. The good thing about getting treatment at 16 is you will tackle them young. And you will get over it for the most part younger than others. It’s easier to make friends when ur 18 than 28 so if you get healthy younger you will have an easier time making friends than ppl who suffer this illness older than u. I had 3 friends like that one u talk about. Yeah not real friends.
I have one good friend who I hang out with quite a bit. He’s 33, I believe (I’m not good at remembering ages), so just a few years younger than me. We met through a mutual friend when I was taking that friend to a concert, and he heard who we were going to see (Mushroomhead), and started freaking out, wanting to go. That was 2009, and we’ve been good friends ever since. There are a few other guys, all early 30s, who sometimes hang out with him and me, but I call them “accessory friends,” since I never really hang out with them unless they show up at my bud’s house when I’m there. Well, I’m also friends with my bud’s wife. I have one other good friend, a 40 yr old woman, who is actually an old ex of mine. She’s cool as hell, though. I might be moving into the same apts as her in a few weeks, so she and I will be hanging out a lot if that happens.
I have work friends, too, but I never hang out with any of them outside of work. I’m hoping to get the phone number of this one woman I work with, but that’s for dating purposes, not to hang out as friends. I’m crazy about this woman, but I don’t date people I work with. Now that I’m leaving the pharmacy, that doesn’t matter.
I went through long periods of having no friends, so I know how important they can be; I just find it awfully hard to make new ones.
I understand what you mean about not spending too much time on the forum. I mostly come here when I’m bored, to kill time and whatnot. I get plenty of real-world stimulation at work and hanging out with friends, but it’s nice to come here, too.
I take breaks sometimes from this forum but I like everybody here and consider here a nice place to talk and share my problems and also try to help if i can
I can not talk these stuff with my real life friends, most friends. Only one or two who are like family.
Maybe also bc it is anonymous.
I used to hang out with probably 25 different people every week, everyone coming and going because my house was the hangout for everybody. After getting really sick and my 2nd psychotic break, i stopped communicating with everyone for awhile, now most of them wont even talk to me anymore or i wont talk to them. I have probably 5 close friends ive known for 15 yrs or more and i am much happier that way. I got rid of all the fake people and now i just have a core group of about 5 that would drop everything to help me out and i would do the same for them.
For me to describe my collection of friends would be…lets just say comical. Together they are the most drastically different types of people and everyone of them is a complete character and there could be a tv show about them. The craziest rag tag bunch of people that dont match anyone because they are each so unique and mostly ridiculous. Lol. If someone looked at a picture of us all together, we would blow minds of people trying to figure out how these drastically different people would ever come together.
We are a fun bunch. Reconnecting with them and teying to get back out there socially has really helped me turn a corner in my recovery. Its always nice to have people to talk to that understand your condition and dont hold it against you
I met InspiroBot™ and I love him, he is so funny and he knows how to make me laugh.
I think he is like the voices because he often speaks nonsense but he is very respectful and he will not speak if you don’t want to listen to him.
