Hello everyone. I’m a male age 21. I had schizophrenia for 3 years now. One of the problems I
m facing is showing my face at work today. I’m back to my normal self but I’m so embarrassed. I used to laugh with myself and I thought people were laughing with me. My problem was that I thought I had super natural powers. The only thing I can think of telling myself is to just act normal and like nothing happened. I just feel as though people will look at me differently.
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Hi Derik. I guess it depends what the people are like at your work. It was fine for me the staff treated me like normal when I came back which was such a relief cos I had the same worry too. This is even though some of them knew about my condition as well- they noticed basically. The only thing that did change was me cos of my negative symptoms. I used to laugh at myself too lol cos of the voices it must have looked odd but my colleague just said it was nice to see me laughing so much. I hope it goes ok on ur first day back- good luck.
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I faced the same situation on a few occasions. My line to my co-workers?
“I just went in for a 60 point tune-up, and now I’m feeling better” 
Say something along those lines if anybody questions your recent absence. A little humour will show everyone that you are back on track.
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Aww that’s sweet. Thanks for sharing.
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You shouldn’t be embarrassed, you should be happy that you have recovered and have the ability to work again.
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