Basically I lost them all in the year 2000
How about you?
I lost someone who I thought was a close friend.
same here, imo they were not ‘‘true’’ friends, I have relised this now
No, they weren’t.
but sometimes i wonder how there life worked out
Basically only the toxic losers had anything to say about it so it was a winning situation. Most people still talked to me and I still got invited to events and stuff from different people, so it really didn’t bother me at all.
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I was left untreated for 12 months and I scared everyone away in that time.
You would have thought the healthcare people would have warned my family that my psychosis might come back at some stage.
To be honest, it proves how ■■■■■■■ ignorant people are to mental health.
You might say it has got better, but not for the more complex issues like SZ.
Normal people get depression and anxiety, but if you tell them you have SZ you’re not endearing yourself to people
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Oh, absolutely. I literally gained friends while already being diagnosed… But my schizophrenia has rapidly gotten much worse, so I’ve lost a lot of genuine friendships that are now shallow at best in comparison.
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It is ■■■■■■■ awful that people are automatically more likely to avoid you, even if your psychotic symptoms are unrelated to them.
I’m pretty sure part of the reason my symptoms evolved in such a specific way is due to the fact that people were becoming avoidant, if not somewhat rude about what was going on with me.
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What I don’t understand is why no one told me I needed help. They just let me get worse and worse.
I ended up being picked up by an ambulance in a nearby city because I was freaking out in the street.
Anything could have happened to me.
It was dangerous
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I’m so sorry! That sounds scary. That’s honestly why I don’t like public spaces or social gatherings very much, especially with how complex my symptoms have gotten.
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I dont have a lot of friends to lose
I lost all my friends
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I lost a couple of friends
I lost all of them ---- some thing about Schizophrenia to an ignorant mind means crazy freako straight jacket …
I chose to distance myself from them. Because I just feel too anxious and depressed to be meeting up and stuffs
Yes. I was a very popular guy, when i was young, i had a lot of very close and good friends.
Now i have two left.
I can’t blame it all on the ones who left me, i had a very bad period of my life when i was stupid, arrogant and at the same time a wreck.
Hope you find a friend soon @san_pedro
Yes I lost my friends and most of my family. But it was my fault. 
I don’t know anybody else with sz/sza, except you guys 
Before sz, I had lots of friends, hanged with different friends many times a week. Only one is left and we only videochat, never hangout irl.