Hey guys, as above, i have lost 4 or 5 people to this illness, they took their own lives, very sad! thoughts?
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I’m lucky that I haven’t lost anyone to suicide. I have 2 other family members with sz, one who has done attempts but never succeeded. I don’t have any friends IRL with sz.
5 people is a lot, but life moves on.
I have lost one friend who suffers from the same MI as me - schizotypal. He is not dead literally, but close too. He has no friends, no family, completely isolated.
He chose to be without medication of ideological reasons. When he was on a low dose of AD he was a good friend, a bit odd. The he skipped the AD and went into a complete isolation. Sad.
A lot of those i was hospitalized with when i was young has died from suicide.
It takes a lot of strength to get a decent life with this disease. Keep fighting out there!
I didn’t lose friends who died but I lost it by my own distancing from them. I had few friends before my SZ, but after I got mainly sick from the Negative Symptoms, I distanced myself from them, lost interest and socializing skills, became afraid to talk to them and they would discover something strange about me.
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No one of my friends died luckily but a coworker died while I was working there. They collected money for his funeral, I paid them but didn’t go to his funeral, he was barely 20y.o., sad. A fast truck hit him in downtown, thats what other coworkers told me. I have no friends with mental or physical illness but I have 3 main friends that I regularly talk to and my brothers. One best friend who calls me many times a day when he’s not working. Yes I lost friends when I was first diagnosed with sz but made new friends later.
I’ve had a couple of people I’ve cared for go off meds and never recover from it. I’ve lost too many people in AA for sure.
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Everybody besides of one person.
I’ve lost all my friends to this illness
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