Mine was difficult, really drowsy, unable to do anything. Also had to do public work for a unemployment allowance as I didnt take disability allowance. I would smoke and lay in bed in my free time.
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It was hard. Work was making me sick. I was doubting the medication and then the side effects. Looking back I wish I had the braveness and sense to start my own business so I could work from home and be flexible.
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Akathisia, was getting Dr certificates, psychiatry appointments
Spent it suffering in a group home. It was hell.
Spent at home languishing away whilst my fellow classmates went to university. Hospital stays and pdoc visits, trying a few meds. Living in twilight zone with writing on the walls and a bizarre haircut.
Went to a day centre in the nearest town. The choice was making stuffed animals or doing carpentry. I was crap at both, so spent a lot of the time walking round the hospital grounds .
My being ill was another thing my parents could blame me for them arguing over.
Rubbish. I was in my third year of college in the uk and i had no freinds no sleep no job. I was frightened all the time. Life was really unbarable for me at that point because my anxiety was through the roof. I couldnt eat because i felt sick all the time i just wanted to run away and escape only for mt father to tell me that their was no where to run to and hide all i wanted to do was disapear. I still want to do that now because i hate my house and my neighbor but its more bareable.
Diagnosis or first episode? My first episode was diagnosed as depression, and thefollowing year was one of the worsts ever. I went through a break up and ended up homeless and addicted to self harm. Then diagnosis happened many years later and the year after that i was in and out of the hospital and in an abusive relationship.
The first six months after onset I was in hospital and returned home from The States back to Europe. Then I was again in the hospital and stayed at home the remainder of the time. The next 6 months I worked full-time in a corporate job again before relapsing a year after onset.
Pure hell! 15524
I was freaked out for a year that I had schizophrenia and had spent eight days in a hospital. I took myself there and asked to be admitted, but I was afraid I’d be admitted involuntarily later as I still heard a voice. Anyway, it didn’t happen and I take my medication.
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My work. The military. Took all the stress off of me and I thought I had gotten better. I actually got a paper that said I was fit for full duty again. I wanted to prove I was good again and accepted the challenge.
They then loaded me up with stress and I planned the largest border patrol and anti drug smuggling operation of the year along the US Mexican border. I ended up suicidal and back in the mental hospital and was worse off than before. Spent over a month locked up that time and that’s when I got the chronic paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis.
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My first year after getting schizophrenia was very promising. I didn’t know what I was in store for.
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