I’ve always complained about my life and problems and schizophrenia. There’s little to nothing I can do to get a better life. I was dealt a bad hand and I don’t know how to turn it into a good winning hand.
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I’ve gone way out of my way to get away from people causing problems. There’s someone with connections everywhere.
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I do a bit of both. Though if I’m honest I mostly complain.
But sometimes I fix. Ex, I had no job for a bit due to my mental health. I went to the hospital and then attended group, then I reach out to an employment specialist once I was stable. I fixed that issue because work part time now.
That said, if there’s traffic or someone cuts me off then I’m definitely complaining about it.
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I can complain and blame others but it’s important to keep persevereing regardless.
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I blame others too.
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What have you tried to improve things?
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I’m in a mental health program called ACT. They help me with whatever I need like meds and seeing psychiatrists but the groups are pretty much useless. My long term goal with ACT is to get a job, apartment and car but I don’t know if that’s possible with my mental and physical health conditions and the fact that I can’t talk a lot.
Stop complaining. Tell yourself you’re going to start small and fix things starting with one small thing. Find that thing and get going on it. When it is fixed move onto the next thing and repeat.
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The mental health team never advocated for a single step on the path I have taken to change things
They’d rather I was sitting in my own ■■■■ and being less of a problem for them and others
I decided that being over medicated was not helping change things
So I ■■■■■■ around with med changes for about 9 years counting to make things better
Back and forth it goes
Steps forwards backwards and sideways
But somehow pointing in the right direction
Not for everybody as it’s a rough deal but you gotta break eggs to make bacon
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No one else will make bacon and eggs for you.
Unless you are incredibly lucky.
Let’s face it, luck is something that is foreign to most of us.
If you want luck you have to make your own.
And you have to make your own bacon and eggs, too.
Get crackin’ like @Joker said.
Or suffer.
Them’s the choices.
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I complain a bit too cause I feel like there’s things that aren’t fixable, so it’s out of my power to improve certain aspects of my life, and it feels unfair.
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I feel the same way @magz
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What are your short-term goals?
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I need to lose weight, specifically visceral fat, at least about fifteen or twenty pounds to start with but that has been impossible for me for the past ten years since I became obese except for losing some weight after getting off Olanzapine.
I know it seems impossible, but I can prove that it’s not impossible. I take 600mg of Seroquel (which many people say it’s impossible to lose weight). I’ve lost about 60 lbs over the last 5 years. I just changed my diet and did a little exercise (I could have lost more weight if I tried harder).
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What is your diet?
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I like to complain in a venting way, but i also realize that it won’t change anything. In order to change i have to want to change then take the necessary steps to implement the change. There’s very few free rides out there so you might as well prepare to take the bus.
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I think that’s a good way to put it!
It’s low carb/high protein/low sugar. So no ice cream, soda, chips, etc. I eat fish, lean meat, chicken, vegetables. Things like that.
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I eat a lot of chicken chorizo burritos and sometimes chips. I also eat fruit every day.
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