This seems to be a hot issue lately…I feel moderately functional…I still have issues that to me keep me from claiming high functionality…examples unable to read books…most days I don’t feel comfortable driving…too paranoid to answer the door some days…ect…how functional would you say you are?
It varies. I’m in a good mood today but my thoughts are pretty disorganized. I call it having a Vague Day because it’s easier for me to function if I try not to focus on specifics.
I bathed, groomed, cooked, cleaned, exercised, and helped my friend run some errands today. So far so good.
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Sounds like you had a good day my friend…
I’d say I’m pretty functional. I don’t work right now but I used to after my psychotic break and I did fine in most parts of it. Also my speech is back. I used to have a problem talking but I am starting to go back to how I was before the illness. I do chores when I need to. I bath every other day. When I had a job I took a shower everyday just seems like there is little point now. I currently am reading a book on the gamma function hoping that it gets to the point where it talks about how to solve for zero when x=1/2 on for the reimann zeta function. I going to talk about that for a while because I am reading it really slowly. The main reason is because I have an addiction to video game so that takes away from my functionality.
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I am really low functioning since years. me too I cant open the door anymore, sometimes(often) I dont answer the phone. if I go out to the supermarket I go there almost running etc etc… it sucks… paranoia… but the reality sucks also I find…
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Think I’m back to 100% what I was . Accept when I miss sleep, and then there’s the stigma.
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Currently I am poor functioning. Just trying to stay out of the rabbit hole. Hope to be better in a few months.
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I had no problem going back to college, even with symptoms, it was the wrong degree and I quit. I’m too functioning for group therapy with other sz’s in my hospital.
I’m going back to work next month, and will work and volunteer for a year (found a church near my house that helps the older folks to go to day center, to eat, etc)
I barely have any negative symptoms, just a little avolition, but I just ordered sarcosine to see if it helps.
Right now I don’t have positive symptoms at all.
My related disorders are annoying but not disabling.
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I had trouble going to the supermarket. My therapist had me stop using Peapod delivery and go to the store around 10pm.
As time has gone on I have gotten more comfortable and more mindful when walking through the store. I still don’t think I could go when it is busy. Something I need to work on.
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I have problems with going to the store too…ii find headphones with my favorite music helps me make it through the store…
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I am relatively high functioning. I can go to public spaces just fine, but I do need to stay in some days. I don’t have a normal sleep pattern though. I sleep too much.
My doctor calls me high functioning, but I feel more moderate at the moment.
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I used to have difficulties shopping.
They have home delivery options now a days which can be helpful or pick up option where bags are ready and waiting and you shop online.
I am pleased and grateful that i can shower, walk, eat etc
I shower daily.
But I do not feel so functional when it comes to socialising and work.
My enemies (not by my choice) (they were jealous and attacking and nasty etc but pretended nice with pshychology) they know what could give me happiness at/in some moments and they want to take that away from me. activity i do such as exercise they follow me and will be there in other names and lying and attacking me with all their friends.
At dance i get attacked spiritually and feel like im almost alone and always defending myself and same at other places i go to.
I am not a part of a community as such but i think there is a people i can or could be with as a community or similar but they are a minority people but i think they exist.
My current job is 2 hours a week and ive managed to do that as mostly i dont get so attacked.
I was offered another job but I feel like i might have a whole army or all armys armed and waiting for me when i get there to follow my orders 
to attack me is thought i get.That they might as usual cheat with things and attack me.
I feel i do not feel well enough for this work.Im just to exhausted to do self defence and be set up.
My energy can work but not with my body for some reason but my body can do a little bit of work.
I have not felt so swell lately and almost took myself to hospital not so long ago.
I am not functioning when it comes to working in person with my body.
I am not functional at socialising really either.
It exhausts me and is difficult.
I can not hold conversations in person.I cant debate politics etc and im not educated enough in person and what i once knew my brain just cant seem to collect that information when i want.
Im grateful i can say simple things though like i can say hi.
I am not going to dance today and may stop going to gym after they all lied about me as usual.
I might forse myself to go or try another venue and maybe meet other people.
But most people seem to be this way to me.
Is it cause others have been in my aura and eon and they dont love me in my own body and person but only the feel of me and to steal from.
They do not actually want me to exercise and they steal my rum eons and things ive done and everyone in a room lying and im only one who is not and more people and i do feel rather alone.
But I have hope and faith and beleive i am not all alone but maybe mostly alone but somewhere out there there should be a few beings that i can be good n peace etc with.
I feel that in spirit it be so and maybe i could even marry /have romantic relationship.
These people planned it strategicaly and pshychologically.
They do not wish me well but they pretend that they do. Its part of pshychology.I dislike pshychology but i cant spell. so well.
I get so exhausted . I feel fragile and delicate sometimes so much i just lay down.
I do not feel functional enough to work more but this is not understood or this was the/their plan.
But maybe it depends who , where , what, how etc.
They denied me my pension which i feel i should have.
I would still keep my job though.
I may apply again.
I do not have friends.
I feel that i am not a part of community and they have always been horrid to me actually since child as my eons and aura has a lot to do with it.
Its better be alone than with such.
In fact theres people i truly want get away from me in every way shape and form. dont want them in my face or wearing aura etc.
I function but not in a way thats concidered normal.
Struggle with this often. I keep getting told I’m high functioning but fail to see it. Might just be my negativity.
I consider myself fairly high functioning. the main problem seems to be with study and working, either of which I cannot do. Would really like to study again… Still, one can hope…
I think it depends on how you define functionality. I live independently , though am reckoned to have limited ability to live independently in the community, so guess that scores me a few Brownie points on the functionality scale.
However socially I don’t function at all ie no friends and only a handful or less in 59 years.
Occupationally I have never worked.
I am best at managing my finances but only because things are set up to allow me to do so. If things changed I’d be thrown. I struggle with hygiene and keeping my flat clean and tidy. My youngest step daughter is concerned about that. I did make initial inquiries about cleaners but have been too paranoid/nervous about having people in the flat to follow through.
Due to my paranoia/social anxiety I stay in a lot, and due to my poor sense of direction(and possible mild agoraphobia) if I do go out I don’t go very far.
You could say I lead a very restricted life. The average day consists of internet,food,drink ,watching tv and sleep. Very occasionally I’ll read a book.
Compared to someone like my sister, who was recently made a director at her interior design firm,I would probably be seen as rather low functioning. However perhaps a more realistic comparison is with other people with severe mental illness.
On that score I would say I am moderately functional.
I score very high on verbal portions of IQ tests, but I have little practical knowledge. Any time I had a job in the past, I barely functioned high enough to be competent in the job. I’m talking about low paying jobs like pizza delivery and telemarketing. Sometimes I think I had more of a beneficial effect at pizza delivery jobs than I thought, because I didn’t object when a manager corrected me. That set an example of obedience to the authority of the people in charge that probably carried over a little to other people. Some guy might be better at the job than I was, but if his personality was disruptive he had a detrimental effect on the morale of the people on the job. He’d always be feuding with another worker.
When I worked at telemarketing I discovered too late that the key to that job is to get a list of the people who had bought the product previously. Those people like the product, and they’re likely to buy it again. I had one telemarketing job where I sold newspaper advertising to businesses. They had this list of businesses called the “no call list”. Why they called it that I don’t know, because it was the list of people who had bought the product previously. I thought it was a list of what the name implied. I thought it was a list of people we weren’t supposed to call.
Since they passed that law that there is a list of people telemarketers can’t call, telemarketing has gone downhill. I sometimes wonder if the public would rather see me as an aggressive telemarketer or on disability. Most sales jobs aren’t trying to rip you off. The product is usually a good deal. When I tried to sell emergency road side assistance for Allstate they charged a little more than their competitors, but they offered more services. I had little success as a telemarketer. If you’re doing cold calling, the key to that is doing rebuttals and overcoming the objections of the customers. Something in me wouldn’t let me do that. The only telemarketing job I had success at was selling newspaper subscriptions. For every subscription they sold they made a donation to a battered women’s shelter. Everyone likes newspapers. They don’t feel like they’re being ripped off when they buy them.
The thing about telemarketing and some of the other sales jobs is that it is easy to get hired at them. They will let just about anyone try it to see if they have the ability to make sales. Most people will do this job rather than be unemployed, but most people are also put off by that method of doing business. That’s just human nature. I’ve heard that people who can make it in sales are considered very valuable executive material. They’d probably be good negotiators.
I keep a low income apartment I volunteer. I’ve worked many jobs and did well part time at most of em for the past 15 years… I’m transitioning now but I think I’ll go back to work part time again in a few months. Right now I’m helping my mom with my step dad getting chemo so I stopped volunteering guitar lessons…
I’m pretty creative artistically… That’s probly my highest function… But most don’t notice my illness…
I don’t like to compare tho
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I function, not sure why though, pressures of life just make me ill, working is hard especially when others are trying to get thing done their way, your always running around playing stupid mind games with them. Then they wonder why their job can’t be completed on time.
That’s very much the case with me too. The main reason I do well on IQ tests is my verbal ability.
When it comes to applying my intelligence to real life,practical situations I basically suck at it.
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