I have hope my life will get better. Does anybody else think that way? Also people can post on this thread that have already experienced their life getting better.
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Yes. Getting on meds sorted out a lot of things for me. The decrease in paranoia helped me make real relationships and move forward with my life. On the meds I got married and moved overseas. I’ve seen a lot of people over the years get on with their lives after getting on the medications. It really can make a huge difference.
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Yeah my life has been getting better. Most of my negative symptoms went away over the course of this past year. I found things I liked such as support group and volunteering at a high school. Also found things I didn’t like such as working a stressful desk job. I did a therapy program, I visited China, I made friends. Things have been getting better.
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Not only do I have hope that things will get better, I KNOW they will get better.
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I’ve found that things have gotten better for me too.
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Can people explain how their lives have gotten better, for example how many bad days do you have 1 day a week or 1 day a month. Do you hear voices any more, if so how much. Is it possible to improve negative symptoms, has anybody gotten better with negative symptoms?
Yes. I stopped drinking and over the past six months have gotten back on track with my meds. It’s a slow and painful process, but I believe there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Without this hope, I would’ve given up. But I’ve managed to stay sober with the religion treatment, which I guess works. Something’s keeping me sober, and it seems like more than willpower. Anyway, hope of recovery is crucial.
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Lots of hope that I’ll find the right meds since I’m still early in the process.
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Stopping drinking has been critical for me. It was making me worse than anything else because all I ever wanted was to be drunk. Now I haven’t had a drink in a while. The last time I drank, I only had one drink and couldn’t even finish it. I find I hate the smell of liquor now.
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I have not heard voices ever and I have no positive symptoms since starting meds a year ago. My negative symptoms have slowly been getting better on their own though sarcosine helped. Most days are good and I will go out and have many things to do. I have job orientation next week plus volunteer work for organizations I like, and programming class and friends and coffee trips and movie nights and lots of driving. At the beginning of last year when I first started meds, I had nothing. Not many people to talk to, didn’t know what I really wanted to do with my life, was worried I will grow old and lonely with nothing to look forward to. Now that doesn’t seem to be the case. Of course I’ve put most of my focus on how to work a decent paying job again but I failed many times and made new friends and found new sources of happiness along the way.
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I’d thought I was medicating with beer/wine, which is true, but half of the time this option backfired. When I think back on the times I fell on the floor and couldn’t get up again for 6-8 hrs, I cringe and shudder.
I only ever injured myself a couple of times crawling into bed, but somehow I got back up. Got pretty lost once; that could’ve ended in my death. Some of the time I was medicating that way and it was helping when I was just doing a beer a night and was in control during the weekdays except for weekends, where I would get totally smashed. Eventually it devolved into using alcohol as a crutch for any bad feeling. I almost bought a flask to carry around with me at one point. I was a hot mess.
I hit my bottom in a gruesome way, so that’s past. I’ll tell you another time what I did 
I’m determined now to find out what kind of person I was intended to be without all the maladies.
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Same! I want to know what I’m like when I’m not off my ■■■■lol
The expression is “curiosity killed the cat,” but it might save the dog 
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Of course you should have hope that your life will get better. If you’re in a crappy situation, understand that it is for your evolution. That’s what matters in this life. Keep evolving. Many people think their depression worths nothing. It’s not true. There’s the good side of the coin. You can use it to leverage your life or you can keep crying about how unfair life is.
I also like this guy here:
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I like Nick Vujicic. He has a very powerful life story. He is a motivational speaker. He was suicidal when he was younger because he has no arms or legs. But he got through it. Now he is happy and has a wife and a kid or two.
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I have hope because of the acid/alkaline theory of disease, and this article from Scientific American, which claims that schizophrenia is a consequence of having an acidic brain pH.
My approach to treating it is to adopt an alkaline diet, take a good multivitamin, and eventually to drink alkaline water from a water ionizer I ordered, that makes 8.0 pH water. I’m 2 out of 3 on that so far and already my anxiety is dropping, and my positive symptoms are like a 1 out of 10 (negatives are at a 6 out of 10 though.) I’m confident the alkaline water will bring me back to a functional normal where I can do part-time work again.
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Sometimes, often really, I think, there’s no hope. Yet I still do little things to work towards making things better, like going to therapy and support group.
I guess if I really wished I could die I wouldn’t be trying to lose weight, as that is adding years to my life.
But I rarely, if ever, can envision a future where I have reached my goals.
Well except that I can see myself reaching my goal weight. That’s because that’s something I’ve had sucess with.
I don’t know if I can work but I rarely think I’ll ever get a girlfriend or rl friends. I can’t even imagine what the former would be like. I’ve never done that in my life.
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Things did get better for me, however the progress is very, very slow.
Five years ago I could not play cards because when I was on it I felt overwhelmed. Now after five years of recovery process, I can play card again. That means my brain functions much better than five years ago. So I hold the hope I can do a full-time job after another five years.
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