My friends and family keep forcing me to go work. I told them I can’t but they don’t understand. My brothers yell at me to go find a job. They told me they don’t hangout with losers who don’t have a job. I feel dumber vs before sz, my social skills and intelligence are lower. They think the meds help me be normal and be able to work.
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just be kind to family and friends and it will work out
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Flock of a feather fly together.
No matter what meds I take, still dx’d with the condition.
Stay calm, don’t react.
I don’t understand my self how will others will understand me.
My parents and family and friends too tell me to work.
As I worked before for 5 years, and I know how hard it was. One think is when at home time runs like an express, but at work time is very slow. I feel a day is like a week.
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I know how bad this sucks because I get this flak too
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I hanged out earlier today with my friend and he told me to find a job to not be a lazy fk.
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I find that living with severe mental illness is hard work
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One thing of ammo I have against my sister is that she said I’ve been mooching off my parents.
This sucks.
Still I know that in my family(all patients and no doctor),
It’s on me to land this plane softly.
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Yea my brothers called me a leech that I suck my parents blood.
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Leech is worse than mooch I feel you…
I miss my sister
Edit: I just mean that Leech is a harder hitting insult and part of me wishes my sister used that word.
We are just all frustrated.
And we are a disappointing family (I said this to my new therapist> (as said in Arrested Development when Michael Bluth is talking to Lindsay Bluth.
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Have them look up the percentage of working schizophrenics its like 15 percent
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Im lucky in that these days the pressure is off me to have to work from family and friends. Probably because i dont live with any. But that also means im in poverty and struggling every day to get what i need and rent/bills. Government assistance is not much in comparison to all my expenses. It sucks. Ive had like 15 jobs over the last few years and its always terrible. Never left a job in a good way. Always just quit mid ■■■■■ or walk off into the night without telling anyone becuae of the stress lol
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I’m on that boat now… I’ve taken 3-5 months off work, still in the process… but out of the 12 or so jobs I’ve had over the past 20 years I have one solid fall back!
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Thats not too bad, I haven’t worked since 2019.
I’m trying to be a peer worker, almost finished studies, now I just have to find a job, where pretty much you work with people with lived experience, I hope it works out.
2019, so 4 years… I’ve been on government benefits too for a while, while attempting to find work… that would have taken roughly the same time, 4 years
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My father thinks I’m lazy and spoiled.
I don’t know for a fact, but I keep thinking that one of my sister lost respect for me. She told me once that I can get a job if I want to.
It’s really embarrassing being like this. Everyone knows I don’t work.
As soon as I get stressed psychosis flares up. I also have zero motivation. I just lie on the couch.
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My family used to push me too work. I used to work 60 hours a week, when I got sick with sza I would go to work for a while then go into the hospital then get out and go right back to work again, this went on for 6 years. I finally got divorced and started on social security.
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Most people with sz can’t work.
I haven’t had a job that lasted longer than 6 weeks since 2012.
I did volunteer in the State Archives and a museum and now on this forum.
Just try to do whatever is possible. People will notice that you do your best.
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