Also, I would like to mention that Nash stopped taking medication in 80s, and found ways to cope with his illness without medication.
He had supportive workplace who understood Nash’s erractic behaviors and angelic wife who supported him after divorce.
I’m functioning enough where I have the ability to cook an egg so I suppose I’m doing good.
Im not dissing the forum. I think its a great resource. I have been on it for awhile I think it used to be the Nami discussion board and I was on those as a teen. I’ve been on the internet since it was accessible to me. I dont think Im super high functioning, maybe thats not the best term. I just have good computer skills and it helps to have a parent who is a computer programmer. I dont know how to code, although Im very creative. I think abstract people can sometimes get overwhelmed or it can become a deficit like a Savant issue. I think this forum accurately represents those with schizophrenia who are able to use forums. Some can use text-to-speech. It should be inclusive to people with disabilities.
I understand the liability issues with talking about wanting vitamins instead of atypicals, or that talking about religion can cause heated debates. News articles are allowed and science discoveries. My qualm is that 99 percent of people with schizophrenia believe in God, and its considered religiosity by science if you are labeled with schizophrenia. To me it feels very unsafe to be labeled in such timultuous times, but when has it ever been.
I dont think there ever has been any accurate representation of this illness and Im not sure why, seems to be a mystery. One researcher claims its over-active immune system, one says its enciphalitis of the pre-frontal lobe, one says its pre-natal infection, one says its parasites and the list goes on and yet there is no balance without a holistic sense of purpose to the human self.
I feel like its possible that schizophrenia gets worse as you age. I feel like Im fighting a never-ending war within, and my faith actually is what keeps me grounded and wish I could shine light on how it helps. Yoga for instance and breathing exercises for anxiety are not quick fix pills like xanax or valium but they actually can cure respiratory illness meditative breathing and walking, non-meat diets all can lead to better energy. But none of that cures you, you can be the most popular loved brilliant person in the world and lose everything to this complex illness.
Sometimes it feels like a gift, other times a curse. Often you feel like you’re the only one whose ever experienced it. Forums like this prove that we’re not existing in an isolated void or living in a vaccuum and that others share our struggles and strife. I love that. I also love that more people are coming out about their difficult experiences shamelessly.
I know it bothers people that I write so much but i cant help it I love to write.
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I like what you wrote and how you think. Keep it up and have a good day 
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I’m finally medicated and doing very well. I’ve become familiar with people here so I don’t leave. I don’t think it’s a waste of my time at all. I like you guys.
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I have had trouble talking to people online since 2020…must be a political thing…Im curious about the stuff people think but I dont even have an attention span for it anymore, news or anything…
I’m considered high functioning for someone with SZA and low functioning for someone with bipolar disorder.
Go figure
You’ve got the peeps on the forum, and then you’ve got the folks with the same diagnosis living under bridges and eating out of trashcans while yelling up to the high heavens about god knows what.
But they’re still part of some general collective of human beings with this illness, and I feel a lot of sorrow that they are out there living with unchecked psychosis issues and no one to care for them.
…They used to be painters, athletes, musicians, class clowns, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, too.
In short, this forum is an accurate and legitimate representation of folks living with a diagnosis— yet just a teensy microcosm of true life on the SZ-spectrum.
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Sir Level replaces inter with eloper
@anon82948922 the Eloperaptor 
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Not doing great. Doing OK. I still go to my job three days a week, live mostly independently, drive and maintain a car. Take care of myself without hardly any help including making and keeping doctors appointments and any other business that comes up like dealing with social security admin, taking my car into the mechanic occasionally. I take care of my own money; and rather well I think. I grocery shop, cook and clean. Both my parents died over 7 years ago, my step parents live far away, my oldest sister moved to Mexico and my next oldest sister is always busy with her boyfriend and has no time for me so I’m basically alone in the world except for an occasional phone call, a therapist, and some of the people at work.
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Functioning paranoid schizophrenics,
and sza are the most common types here.
Catatonic and hebephrenic ones are rarely in this forum
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Most people here are well functioning. I personally feel that the forum have slight depressive mood based on the type of posts.
It’s important to remember that you might have high ambitions like we all do. But schizophrenia will hit you and you will know when to stop/limit. Take care and do what you love.
This forum has a cross section of users. The most regular posters are functioning well.
The family forum has so many stories of sz’s that are not functioning well at all. Those members there latch on to any of us that go over and beg to know how we got to where we are. It’s very sad and I do not recommend anyone going over there.
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Agreed. Those of us who are HF are only creating false hope over there.
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I agree with @anon53367039, I’m pretty sure there is a group of sz’s out there who are functioning indistinguishably from people without sz. Job, education, friends, family etc. There is no need for them to visit the forum. Exceptions exist of course for those good people who stay as a role model. I couldn’t do what you do @anon82948922
I’m recovered to a satisfactory degree but still struggle a little and really benefit from the extra socialization.
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