Anyone else had big hopes and dreams destroyed by their mental illness and now have to settle for less because that’s really all you can do now? Feel like I lost 9 years of my life due to my schizophrenia.
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I had big hopes and dreams that were actually getting somewhere. Then blammo. All gone.
It’s been just over 10 years since I was diagnosed now. I’m in the “surviving” business now 
no longer in the “thriving” business.
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I had hopes and dreams. Utterly destroyed by this condition. No emotions and complete anhedonia equals no point in doing anything. Now I just exist, and that’s about all I do.
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Frequently. I was diagnosed at 15 and grew up in a fairly rough neighbourhood with kids doing drugs all around me. I always refused and never did drugs. Now I see those same carefree kids with a house, 2 kids and an Audi, and I’m here on a disability pension for Schizophrenia.
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Yeah it ruined my grades when I was a year away from my four year degree. I plan on going back to school after I regain some level of functionality. Trying to stay optimistic, others have done it so I figure I got a shot.
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I had hopes to be a licensed architect and almost made it before I fell sick to schizophrenia…it was a heavy burden to lose my career…took me decades to accept my fate…it gets better…I am happy now on disability and don’t regret that I put at least five hundred houses on the ground from my designs.
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Yes. I had wonderful life projects. But schizophrenia ruined all those projects and my whole life.
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I take much less risks now. I’m afraid to put myself in stress that I can’t cope with.
And result psychotic with.
Sooo. I don’t do certain relationships anymore. Or jobs. Etc
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I was never an ambitious person, all I really wanted was to become a wife and mum. I had sixteen wonderful years as a mum to my son before psychosis hit. I have not seen nor heard from my son since and he is twenty three now. (He left with his father), Schizophrenia has robbed me of parenthood and I will never get the opportunity to become a grandma.
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They were all shattered post illness. Before I got sick I was doing great though.
Had a good run.
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