Do you take bits of string and pocket lint ?
I take potatoes and cheese.
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Dealā¦muahaha power level over 10000000000000āæ000000000000āæ0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000āæ0000000āæ000000000000000000000000000000000āæ00000000000āæāæ000000000000000000000000000000000000āæ0000000000000000000000000000 ectā¦
Its over 9,000ā¦
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Type over 9000 in Googleā¦hell Oprah said it onceā¦
In fact the melds will only be half the story
Look up the negative symptoms of schizophrenia- for one - avolision another anheadonia (spell)
Also yea mesds turn you into a zombie etc but actually the illness is severe enough to cause those things anyway
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Ya moderate i was severe before meds.
Now im just getting through each day.
My breathing is way worse, i get winded on the easiest things to do. Like walking or exercising.
I would say my case is mild now that Iām medicated. Before it was probably moderate, I escaped hospitalisation by making deals not to hurt myself with my psychiatrist and agreeing to daily home visits by the mental health team.
Now Iām able to work, Iām not very good with socialising, but I only deal with minor breakthrough āhallucinationsā and ādelusions.ā I donāt think I have too many negative symptoms, just thought blocking and the occasional poverty of speech.
Severity of positive symptoms doesnāt correlate with functional capacity. Look at Elyn Saks with her persistent positive symptomsā¦ Negative and cognitive symptoms are more correlated with functioning. I have an atypical cluster of negative symptoms and a decent amount of cognitive symptoms. This makes it very difficult for me to perform academically. Ive been forced to consider discontinuing school and taking on menial minimum wage employment. I might even have difficulties working simple jobs. The cognitive spark 
Just isnt there.
I work too. Mindless work. I deliver parcels. Only communication I have is with customers. I say the same thing to everyone. When I sit in the lunch room at work I most of the time sit alone. People donāt hate me. But I donāt know how to socialize anymore. I lost that ability when I became ill.
I have negative symptoms. Some positive. Iām on high dose meds. Iād say I am mild now compared to where I started. But I have days I manage nothing at all. Hard to think. Hard to read. I canāt watch tv. Anhedonia is slowly killing my spirit.
Thank you for your reply and making me get more insight.
I have read and listened to many hopeful stories about people who have recovered well both with and without drugs. I am hopeful towards this illness. I do not have it but it gives me a great amount of hope and faith in that it is not as hopeless as the established psychiatry is making it sound like. I despise when they make it seem like itās a deeath penalty and there is no way out almost 
Do not settle, there is hope!
Have faith my dear friend, faith and belief in that ones situation can get better and working with supportive people towards that goal is an amazingly powerful force. Do not neglect therapy, I believe it is a cornerstone to recovery and understanding.
Find a compasionate and genuine therapist, one who will work with you and really dig down your soul with you to heal it and the mind. All the best to you my friend and am giving you a virtual hug full of faith, love and compassion. Fight, keep your head up, it will get better.
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I think Schizophrenia is always severe but if your other genetics are good enough and if you donāt carry other genetic risks then you may have advantages and individuality benefits and nature-vs-nurture benefits and medication+health-supplements+nootropics that may make you feel as if you donāt have severe disorder.
Yes, Schizophrenia is always severe.
After using nootropics my cognition improved.
These five nootropics improve cognition
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Semax
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Sunifram+Unifram
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Fasoracetam+coluracetam [ These five are the big five in cognition or permanent base line brain upgrade factor ]
I only used Fasoracetam+coluracetam+noopept.
I met wealthy woman bragging about driving people crazy to give to her sexual abuser. I developed PTSD, selective amnesia type, and psychosis/insomnia started. If you met this, Cops/courts/legal wonāt help any of the victims and frequently undo people. Better just to leave with someone you already know well, as new ones who flee with victims in this situation end up going crazy and turn into wife beaters.
To leave, you just quit talking to anyone you met through the group. Do nothing confrontational EVER. Do not talk about any dirty laundry from the group. You may be stalked, so just say āwe are goodā and never talk to them again. If you are being trespassed at home or harassed by people in your apartment building, most people end up moving 1-2 times at least to get left alone by social problems.
But, this will sometimes keep the āparanoidā type of schizo from happening meaning strangers will not be bothering you. This is hardest hell if bothered by strangers as my location even blows up newer vehicles owned by families with young children and schized out parents do not even have access to public transit to get to their jobs. Paranoid schizo is a tough cold one to end and the weirdos just keep coming and coming in all forms in some communities including the nutty hater monger churchies who would undo people they work with even. Some churches are really nothing more than a 666 network of part-time psychotics who do dirty business for a wealthy abuser like 666 group. These are told to harass ātheivesā who got disability pay after mental careā¦You even get bothered by the local nuts if you move or travel. (Just keep quit and donāt talk to strangers talking to you nutty, ignore whatever trespassing happens and sometimes you can move and locals eventually tell you how area runs so you will be okay if you are passive one.)
Would not recommend you try a church to get voices to stop. You can be harmed for trying to leave. At least, you get stalked by a lot more people who may even keep you from working until they lowered you down to cleaning toilets, then put a coworker on you to screw you out of this work by making messes around building. Must be ready to accept life with unethical GAWD and know you may be harmed for saying NO to any demand from voices. These are the most angry and ugly people any longer but this is the face of the vengeful GAWD the government likes right now to protect the countryās wealthy special interest groups of wealthy abusers/pedophiles/predators. Church is not even a fit place to socialize for poor, will be thrown out and stalked for not attending Sunday church and tithing somethingā¦
Some small communities demand church attendance or you may be screwed out. Cities only suggest church attendance for schizos but people end up getting harmed, but can be harmed by the bad churches nutties who you work with or customer problems. My local social scene is completely being predatorially picked for slaves/mistresses/relationships if you tried to use meetup.com to check out activity groups or you volunteer for a cause. Will be run around like a slave for going near it and even highly paid people had to submitā¦This is what smaller city came to at 500k people. Bigger cities can be better. Churches have too many stupids and devil worshippers here to get involved. Works better to just work, socialize with the people you know are okay and go back home and shut the door. Rest will only ruin youā¦
Iām still dealing with the voices from the sex abuser situation because I told them off and worked on legal relief after cops threatened me here. Suburban cops were leaving some homeless who move there after meeting this scamā¦Caught another case of oh-crap off an employer who was letting the drug dealers mentally torture their employeesā¦Latter involves poor people so seeking restraining order as group was planning to use people long-term. I even had social problems put on me by this job situationā¦Sounds delusional but this is how things work for older ladies. Could be ārejection attackā schizo for declining sex with someone wealthier too or even divorcee leaving a richyā¦