How many years since your last hospitalization

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Summer 2022, it was a long stay as well, something like six months

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How is your recovery going?

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Very well, I haven’t missed a dose of medicine since I left. I’m on a depot injection. And otherwise I’m housed and secure economically. Currently in school

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Very good! I need to imitate your med habits

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I had several initial hospitalizations in the early eighties including an 8 month stay in a hospital. Then I got better, only to relapse in the late 1980’s which required several more 3 or 4 day stays in the psyche ward. Then I stayed out for 25 years only to go back in for two days in 2015 when I was under a lot of pressure because I lost my housing, my mom died, I hurt my back, I had to quit school, I couldn’t drive and felt suicidal, all in the space of a week. I had lived in normal society on my own for 20 years, mainly renting rooms in peoples houses but after the two day hospitalization I found myself back in a group home.

That was the end of 2015 and I spent 20 months in the board and care and then in 2017 moved into my current apartment with supported housing. I haven’t even been close to going back in the hospital since 2015.

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Do you have a community mental health team? For me, they’re responsible for my medication

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That’s awesome man! How did you turn it around so fast? That’s great

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Yeah I get that. That always pushed me to stay working even though I was diagnosed schizophrenic in 2018

Disability in the U.S sucks so you might as well keep working through whatever ailments you may have here

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I don’t work yet unfortunately i’m on disability still, but I will start tutoring after I complete my studies

Edit. The UK in general is VERY supportive compared to other countries (in my experience)

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Yeah I hear a lot of good things about your country when it comes to the disabled. I’m sure you’ll make it to where you can work again, I always kinda enjoyed working that’s why I kept going personally. That and the disability thing is basically used a deterrent from even using it here.

Sounds like you’re working on it! Good luck

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thank you friend, and nothing but well wishes for you too. May things be gentle on you

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accidentally deleted the post when i went to click on who liked it, but the post said I tried to follow the advice of forum members to persevere as much as possible!

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Thanks man, I really appreciate it :+1:

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It’s been two years and I hope never again

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Last day in psych hospital was March 8th 1983.

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My last hospitalization was 12 years ago.

Still hear voices and very sensitive to stress.

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My last longer stay was 2015.

3 years ago the cops and social worker put me in hospital, the judge liberated me at the same day but I stayed over night to get a blood test, a conversation with the doctors and a breakfast.

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My Neighbours called the cops because I getted loud because of loud noise at night from them.

The cops getted loud to me and I averted, so they called the social worker, she sayed I could get agressive.

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… local health office