I went through a very very bad situation….it happened 4 or 5 days ago. I got an episode for 4 days straight. I don’t know how I got through it. It was an extremely bad situation.
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8 months in the hospital was a nightmare.
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Losing my entire life, including my house and kids, was my worst experience in my life. It destroyed me.
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Yes I’ve been through a couple of hellish periods throughout my life
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It can always get worse, so right now I am gratefull for those days are gone.
A month in hospital was hard. I had other bad situations but at least I felt i had so.e sort of control while mind was busy finding solutions.
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Yes. I have had bad days and tough days.
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Ive had some tough times, but i refer to my tagline.
Losing my family was the worst. If only they had bloody well medicated me, years earlier, i might have kept them.
Believe me, i have dealt with some crap in the past - which is probably why im a selfish cynical old git now.
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Im been through some pretty bad times. Nothing major recently. I’m glad you got through the episode ok. I’ve had two major psychotic breaks but they both lasted years. This is over the course of 20 years though.
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Yes. When I was completely untreated for mental illness and had no support for it growing up. It was extremely hard on me. But now things are very different. Situations can change drastically so you should always have hope.
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My dad died in 2020. I got divorced this year, can’t afford my own apartment and had to give up my kitty. Oddly though I think I am better off than most of my friends and family who seem to have much more serious physical problems than me. I spend more time in the park now while I still can afford my car and watch the animals and then everything else seems a world away.
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5 months unmedicated in 24/7 solitary confinement in jail.
I bashed my head against the wall countless times because the voices told me to.
I begged for my medicine and the guards laughed at me.
That was 2014-2015. I suppress most of it.
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I feel you. I lost my wife, kids and house too. 
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Four and a half years ago my pdoc took away my ap which I had continuously been taking for 35 years. I went really crazy. I couldn’t stay at home. I was one of the crazier people in the hospital. What my pdoc did was malpractice. Of course she didn’t even apologize. I got my zyprexa back and I gradually got better, but I developed a panic disorder from the trauma of it all.
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I had a few different episodes that lasted months. The last bad one was about 5 months long.
Life gives you lemons. 
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Any of the time I was on Haldol was a bad time for me, especially when I was taking 40 mm a day. They use Haldol to torture mental patients in Russia. I’ve gotten stranded and walked all night several times. The first one was in the army when we walked 25 miles one night. One time I walked all night for two nights. I lost a pretty good amount of weight doing that. One time I had hopped a train and it stopped in the middle of nowhere and I made the foolish decision of walking all night back to town. It wasn’t too bad. The next day I crawled up the steps of the Gospel Rescue Mission, and I got a shower and a good night’s sleep.
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Yeah I’ve suffered.
Unbearable shiiiit n i don’t know how i got through it all.
Love to all of you guys.
Deserve better.
Love love strong beautiful people.
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You know - it takes a bloody strong measure of personal strength for us schizophrenics to manage our condition. And deal with the resulting stigma.
And we all should be proud of that.
“normies” - (some of them. Dont have a bloody clue) 
xx
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Totally agree @Naarai .
Well said!
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My first super tough situation was my childhood: physical, mental and sexual abuse.
The second was my teens when I was bulimic.
The third was early adulthood during my physically, mentally and sexually abusive marriage.
The fourth was during the years when I was in the throes of my sza illness age 23 to 56.
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I’m very sorry all that happened to you @agent101g. That just shouldn’t be.
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