Since I gave up benzos, I’ve got some ambitions back. I’ve also been stable for 2 years, so my last hospitalisation is in the rear view mirror.
2 years ago, I had no ambitions really. I’m still lacking in ability to achieve any of these new found ambitions though. This has left me feeling a bit frustrated at times.
Are any of you making progress in achieving your ambitions?
My biggest ambition is the recovery path, to lead a functional and happy life despite of the illness, and so far so good.
Small ambitions like finishing college, drivers license, getting a job, maybe a family are a bit on a second place compared to that.
I thrive for a simple life, don’t want anymore than I can get.
I know I’m priviledged, I won’t struggle much for money in my life and I probably will never need to be on disability, but I intend to make it work on my own, without my family’s help. That’s probably my second biggest ambition.
Right now I’m on a limbo, still recovering and going through periods of instability, either learning how to cope or making those issues disappear, I’ll make it through.
I’m a naturally ambitious person. I have a lot of Capricorn in me so I attribute it to that.
I always wanted to be a writer or musician even when I was floridly psychotic.
I would ask for notebooks to write in in the psych ward.
You know my ambitions now. Something in the mental health field, college degree, and girlfriend are my three main goals. And to be sober too I guess is an ambition 
I never figured that minnii
I always assume people know I’m privledged but I don’t think people know truly. It’s our illness that makes (me) feel targeted for privledge.
I knew your moms an anthropologist but didn’t think you were privledged. Thought you were in like the middle of privlidge. If were on the same page of our definition of privledge 
i wanted to be a good it professional… on next fall i will join collage.
i recently found exercise has lift my moods and motivation up…
plz consider exercise in ur life … this advice is for all the people on the forum…
I consider myself priviledged because my mom has two apartments renting, and eventually I’ll inherit that so I won’t be struggling with money ever again, if everything goes right.
I was already poor when I lived on my own, and because of that I consider myself priviledged right now. I don’t pay bills, I don’t pay for my food, for my transportation, for anything.
But yeah, I’m not rich 
My dad was an engineer, and inherited my grandfathers building so he was kinda a landlord too… I always thought I’d inherit something but then my parents sold it all, and they spend their money like crazy! It doesn’t bother me though because it was only a curse. Thinking I had it “made” already, I never tried to work for anything. Now I strive for independence. My parents are upper middle class, but they never invite me to dinner which they go out a lot. They do give me a lot though so I can’t complain AT ALL.
Yeah, it’s part of growing up I think. 
I have a small ambition to get a job. I have a larger ambition to invent things. It’s not easy though.
My ambition is to have ambitions.
i want componsation for psychical and mental scars, 500,000 is the asking price, the angels know the winning numbers in the lotto
Before I got sick I think I had ambitions. But then my world changed and my only ambition or goal was to be a mother and wife. Then I got sicker and went through depression and mania episodes. then back to goal of mother and wife. I achieved those.
Now my only ambition is to stay as healthy as possible to at least see my kids grown and on their own.
I am just trying to survive as best as I can.
Other than that finishing my bachelors degree and getting a girlfriend would be nice.
I have ambitions to be a pharmacy tech. I am really depressed because no meds or sarcosine helped me with motivation concentration or anything. Part of me wonders if i just cant believe i can do anything with my life. Ive tried wellbutrin minocycline and strattera
Yes, my motivation and concentration are poor too. That’s part of the problem.
I want to graduate and find a decent job to pay for my cats. I also want to meet someone to marry and have kids with them.
Right now my only ambition is to stop smoking. Aside from that is to be a better painter and guitarist but those things cost money…sigh.
My ambition is to succeed in life and not let sz bother me, still taking meds, still making progress and I am hoping to keep going up in the world.
I have a plan now so I am going to keep continuing to volunteer and keep making progress there and gaining new skills and learning more how to help others, I want to hopefully get a job at the end of it if I can, that would be my greatest achievement if I did that.
I also want to explore myself more and my faith, I believe if I believe in something and someone so much that it will help me on my path in life, I need guidance and I want to achieve a higher understanding about everything, that’s why I have opened up my heart to the spirit of God and I hope he will show me mercy and love me like a brother, like I love him. More of a father though.
My general ambition is to live a successful life in spite of the mental (and physical) ailments that I have. Along with that, I’d love to be able to become an actress because it’s one thing that I do that makes me feel alive. But if there’s ever a chance that couldn’t work, I’d like to work in either the psychology, crime, or medical fields.
Good for you Minnii. Enjoy it to the maximum.