It feels so nice when I forget I have sz and I’m focused on my hobby or work.
Hobbies are very important for sz people as it takes your mind off the illness.
What do u think
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I’m like you when I get busy and I’m not having symptoms I forget.
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Yea it feels so nice doesn’t it.
Being reminded of sz sux…
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yea like when you’re going along good then all of a sudden you hear something annoying, I hate that
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I had a weird feeling last evening regarding this. My Blackhawks were playing, and I’m on a different med regimen than last season. It’s a bit overwhelming when you have that sudden realization that meds are that powerful in your life to affect how you respond and follow a simple thing like hockey. I know people confuse sz with multiple personality disorder, but it almost felt like some truth to it in some ■■■■■■ up way. My new psychiatrist rocks!
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Maybe this site is remembering you you got it
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i dont think about my sz that much at all now, i am stable so just get on with things, its more about others now and less about me 
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I’m constantly thinking about it 
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I think of it all the time. In fact, one of my symptoms is to feel lower than the grass. I am trying to love myself now, cause I know its the only way to feel better. But my anxiety outside still brings me back to my illness all the time. I was also obsessed with the madness in general before. Now I try to distract myself and just to move on. But I still think a lot about it.
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Used to think about it constantly but over time I have periods when I let it go
Hobbies are really important
I love reading and TV
I have just started online bookkeeping course which I enjoy now too
I used to take resperdal for the past 7 years. I just changed last month.
The side effects made me remember constantly. Having word salad at times or alogia when I’m not used to it. Feeling weaker than I’m supposed to be is also a big reminder.
I think about it all the time unfortunately.
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I don’t forget I have schizophrenia because I have voices all the time.
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I can’t forget… my blunted affect makes my smile disingenuous appearing. My delusion is a secret and I feel like I’m getting away with something if I don’t share it. I feel guilty a lot, like I’m a fraud. My peers probably think I don’t deserve my disability, but working didn’t work out, I actually spent too much time there, and it gave me an example of “abuse” for the first time in my life.
Most of my workday I don’t think about being SZ or even notice my postive symptoms. Always being a week behind in work kind of helps, I guess? Keeping busy helps the most, which is why I’m always busy with something.
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That’s good. I haven’t worked for 9 years… but recently signed up for Meals on Wheels(it’s only 2 hours a month), plus I went through the interview process at the local blood bank to make “warm calls” which occurred recently. So I’m finally trying.
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At work I forget about it all, to be honest, I don’t think about it much now, the meds keep me pretty stable
I do forget at times. When I’m doing okay or doing something fun. But most of the time I remember I’ve got it. I try to forget about it.
I have been experiencing this lately where every aspect of my life revolves around Mental Health, including my friends - and i dont think its healthy. There are many times tho when i forget im schizophrenic and im just seen as Rog. My social life revolves around my local pub - but somehow or other some mental health issue crops up and i feel the need to comment. Theres more to me than my diagnosis and i want to explore the possibility of being known as Roger not as the schizophrenic that drinks to much! Its hard when your surrounded by care teams looking out for your welfare - but latley ive been avoiding anything to do with mental illness. There is more to me than that…
If I’m doing well I forget I have sza
But now in a bad place I’m reminded all the time
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