Does Your Significant Other Forget You Are Sz?

Ah, such sage advice. If only we thought to just get a grip on reality! He has cured us all!

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My girlfriend has sz and I do tend to forget she has it. She’s been doing very well and it’s easy to not think about her sz.

When she does have a rough time I’m reminded just how vulnerable she is and I try to do my best to support her.

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Wow this is a hard subject for me.(I’m the partner of a sz) I feel like the worst partner in the world sometimes. I love my man so much it hurts. I find I sometimes resent the sz so much, I long for him to be able to live with me again and sleep with me when his here, I don’t sleep well without him. I long for him to look at me with love instead of hate, I long to be able to go places and have him by my side, I long for him to have his libido back so I feel like a woman again. I long for him to be able to do things with the kids and tolerate them more and give them love back for they worship him. I long to build a future instead of living in limbo. Worst of all I feel so ashamed feeling these things, I remind myself that he can’t control these things, heck I remind everyone else when they tell me I shouldn’t put up with it. I do because I know he can’t help it . But still I struggle with these thoughts everyday, I don’t know, maybe it would be different if he got propped treatment or he would talk to me or talk to the doctor. All I know is I love him and that his happiness sends me to the moon , his smile takes my breath away. But boy do I feel like a bad woman.

It’s the same with my family. I get upset about it though. I call them my ‘fair weather family’ now. It’s hurts to say it.

Yeah I try to remind myself that they just don’t understand because they’re not mentally ill but it hurts that they don’t

Yes, my significant other forgets I ever was schizophrenic.

J.

My whole family does and is gets worse the better i am doing, better i am doing the more they forget a side form my brother and older sister they never forget mainly to them having to deal with the worse p-break i had was really really bad
Something that you never forget, others oh yea they forget and react like is something different or new when i forget my meds for two days and start seeing blood covered animals coming out of the walls in one building at school THEN they remember!

Is all done to how much its up in they face is it i think some times when is quiet and controled is fine and easy to forget
A day or so age i freaked out in the store with this huge need to just run in panic and what reaction was it “Can you push the cart as is too heavy” and im like umm yea sorry i was just going to run the six odd miles house in a blind panic and you want me to push the cart sure! no problem!

My parents are finally getting a provider after years of turmoil. I can’t wait for the peace I get.

You’re not a bad person. Most of the other caregivers on here have expressed the same things. I imagine it is torture for our family members having to watch us go through all this and change our entire personalities. How old are your kids? Do they understand what is happening?

15, 8 and 6. All girls. My eldest gets angry about how he is will me then she kicks herself and reminds herself his sick. The younger ones know his ill but they don’t understand, they just worship him and crave his love. They don’t like it when dads grumpy. They say they get scared he’ll leave. Me I just crave his love aswell so I get where their coming from.

That is really hard. I’m sorry. I hope he eventually agrees to get treatment. If not, a lot of people on here have been very grateful for their involuntary hospitalizations. It is definitely a hard path to take, but it is there as a last resort if things get really bad.