Has sz taken away your confidence?

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Same except pregablin and clonazepam

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This is the line I wonder about most. Is it humility, or humiliation?

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i heard humiliation leads to humility.

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Aaaaahhhh Grasshoper, this I did not consider. Good call

I donā€™t know if youā€™re old enough to remember the show kung fu . There was an old wise Master, teaching the main character in the show and he always called him a grasshopper

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hahaha yea ive seen parodies of it and stuff. haha like the bit where the grasshopper has to snatch the stone from the masters hand haha

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You got it, LOL

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Sure, but I do crap anyways. I have zero confidence and Itā€™s amazing I can even crawl out of bed in the morning let alone leave the house and go to work. If I represent anything at all, it is that Iā€™m a living testament on far you can get without confidence. It helps to be in denial; if I faced reality I would never go out of my apartment.

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In some aspects, yes.

In others, no.

For example, itā€™s been tough for me to make friends at my job. But I dunno if itā€™s me, or if I just work with some stuck-up biitches :upside_down_face:.

But this illness has also taught me compassion, empathy, and has generally made me a better human, I think.

So thereā€™s a silver lining, I suppose.

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I think that anxiety and panic- attacks has ruined any amount of self- confidence that I had. There is nothing left of me.

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Thatā€™s the way to look at it. I couldnā€™t agree more

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The weight gain has taken away my confidence.

The meds have taken away my creativity, which was my identity.

I have yet to find anything positive or silver lining-like from this illness.

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Sz hasnt taken away my confidence but aps have they made my body flabby and my dick impotent i have no confidence talking to a girl but when i had sz i did

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I use to have the biggest ego lol, I was so confident before schizophrenia. Now I donā€™t even know what confidence is or what it feels like

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ā€œIf you can snatch the pebble from my handā€¦ā€

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Itā€™s hard because when everybodyā€™s everything is scrutinizing you it can be a confidence killer. I have an occasional stammer I never had before, and sometimes I canā€™t find my words. Peak of health.

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Haha exactly 1234567

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but my preacher is working on it lol, he was talking to me saying my problem is I have a lot of energy and that I donā€™t have confidence (think he meant I donā€™t have confidence in prayer; those were his words) He prayed for me to get confidence :smiley:

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Iā€™m still uber confident with people but I am at it all the time and practice makes perfect.

I like people. Trouble was I was hella paranoid and moved into things like erotomania. Getting on meds I live so much better and even now at 50 Iā€™m very confident in most things Iā€™m interested in.

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I donā€™t have any friends at work either.

I think itā€™s because when Iā€™m around them I feel ashamed of my physical state. I therefore lack in confidence to make connections there.

I think they also can feel my lacking confidence vibe and thus keep a certain distance as they know I require space.

As for you, maybe your colleagues are jealous of you.

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@Schztuna,

If I had a boyfriend or was planning on getting one,

I would not know how to make friends with females prettier and more confident than me. Because I fear getting hurt by my boyfriend being romantically, sexually attracted to them.

Well idk the actual reason, just felt like saying thisā€¦

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