I remember when my friend told me she thinks I’m ill with schizophrenia. I was thinking, she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. I had so little insight.
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I’ve always had this illness,
So all the friends I’ve made,
I’ve kept.
Maybe because I never really changed.
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The ones I wanted to keep, anyway.
Yeah I lost friends because we were young and they were too self absorbed to listen to my problems. They couldn’t sit and listen for a second citing that they had enough problems of their own. I burned a few bridges too as I became irritated with them and uninterested in the friends I had for years.
I dont talk with people i did drugs with anymore, i dont know if they were friends tbh i lost some more because i lost contact with them after making sure i didnt have a chip that works with my brain on my phone, but i stil have friends left.
I isolated and lost contact with all my friends.
Made the mistake of telling them all I had SZ when I got diagnosed
Quickly learned just to not bother telling people
I don’t want any of their sympathy anyways, and it’s none of their business.
All is good when my AP is working ok, but they seem to have a habit of letting me down every few years.
Really hope Amisulpride keeps going as it has been a good med for me. This is the most ‘well’ I have been for a very long time - probably since I was a teenager
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I had 200+ facebook friends at college lol. Now i got zero total friends. Schizophrenia is most likely the cause and reason.
I had 1 decent friend. Now i just got immediate family members. Only ones that count and matter.
I have limited education, money, and job prospects. Oh well.
Some people have 1000-5000 facebook friends. I was never that pooular nor wanted to be…
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My only 2 close friend never left me.one was my wife.i never had a friend much neighter school or real life
I have a friend who has 5000 friends lol He posts tons of pictures of himself daily hanging out with friends in parties etc. I don’t understand how he has time to work too. I think if it was socially acceptable he will even post selfies of himself while taking a sh1t!
Anyways he was my friend in my natal country that I last visited 10yrs ago before war. But according to his pictures its pretty obvious that there is no war lol At least in his region. I didn’t talk with him much since then. We used to hangout together with a group of friends in Syria.
I think there is a friends limit on fb, 8000.
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I lost some friends when I got sick, but I don’t really blame them. I wasn’t acting like a good friend back then. I have made up with a few of them since then, with apologies all around.
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Sz estranged me from everyone ive ever known. Only my family ive reconnected with.
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I lost a lot of friends and hundreds of so called business friends when I developed late onset schizophrenia but my real close friends and family stayed with me. I have a very short list of friends now.
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Thanks @jeroenp
My friends change al the time… I keep it casual and respectful . I made mistakes in the past of talking about my problems. Your friends are not supposed to be doctors or therapists IMO. I like to keep it casual hmmm maybe that’s weird
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I don’t have any friends and have been single for almost 20 years. I would say most people that know don’t really care but some people actively avoid me. There is such a stigma around it, “Paranoid Schizophrenia” is part of the popular culture for being total nuts/crazy.
Only got the 2 friends. I dont count the nieghbours. One a married woman - i bonk now and again on the sly, and Cathy that turns up, and ends up staying 3 days only to disappear again for 2 months again.
I never had many people to lose when i was dx’d Schizophrenic. Maybe the pub drinkers, but for other reasons i saw them less anyway.
I have zero friends left. The only people I have anymore are my family.
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