Is anyone on here tired of having schizophrenia? My brain feels tired. Tired of trying to figure out things in my head. I used to always overthink but these days I hardly think anything. Is this a sign of recovery? Can anyone give me tips on how to improve my well-being? Diet wise or mental health wise? I just want to be well. And normal if possible (if there’s such a thing)
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Just time will help, and realizing that delusions are just delusions
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About 50 years ago, there was anecdotal evidence that schizophrenics as seniors were often doing well.
I looked around in my head at the 50 and 60 year olds I knew, and I decided to preserve my body throught diet and exercise.
Now, I’m 70 years old and more or less happy.
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It got easier enough over time that I’ve accepted it.
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it like winning the lottery you don’t need. or having the wheel of misfortune land on schizophrenia.
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Yeah the whole 1% thing, why can’t I be the 1% who is wealthy instead of the 1% who deals with schizophrenia?
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It does suck for sure. It’s a hard life. But there is hope, and peace, and good days, and bad days. When I am stable and doing well I feel very fortunate to be living a half-decent life. Just hold on to those good days when it’s bad, always try to dial in your meds when it’s hard, and never give up.
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Hello, schizophrenia is knowing some of our loved ones have died. It is best not mentioned daily.
My body is recovering and so is my mind. Schizophrenia is knowing nobody loves you. I have known that for far too long. To know that my parents only love me because I am their son.
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Who does?
Wait until you hit forty years, you’ll be grateful you can walk 5 feet to go to the bathroom in the morning.
40 years, hell, I can hardly believe it myself, where did all the time go? It seems like just yesterday I was sleeping on a dirty mattress on the floor for a year in my first group home when I was 19. Shouldn’t I get a medal or a cake or something?
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When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like “whaaat?”
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You can make lemon syrup too. That one is delicious and fun to make.
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I am completely worn out by it now.
I managed to still keep a drive to work until my work situation changed.
Now I need to find that inner strength again otherwise I am screwed
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Most of the time I don’t think about it and it doesn’t bother me. I’ve spent the last few days avoiding hallucinations and waiting for the new med to work. These days are tiring.
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I think many of us would feel like our lives would be better without schizophrenia. But I think it’s what makes us unique. After a few years of being diagnosed I just accepted that this is how the rest if my life would be. Luckily, I don’t have hallucinations but I have strong delusions when off of meds.
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Yeah it totally sux being worn out by schizophrenia, I couldn’t focus much on anything, and it’s definately tiring. I’ve been in and out of rehab for ages, but it’s been 3 years now that i havn’t been back there, things get better with the right meds, and with a supporting group of people and time.
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Dietwise… I’d say make sure you’re getting your vitamins and minerals.
The primary advantage of veganism is it prompts you to seek out a diversity of foods… And in the plant kingdom that means comprehensive nutrition.
Veganism is impossible otherwise. On a practical level it’s boring… And realistically if done wrong you can miss out on key nutrients.
However if you ain’t afraid of the veg… then eat them all at any opportunity you get
Fruits aren’t nearly as important and meat is either artificially fortified or pretty generic in what it gives you… Protein is protein.
Won’t dog on you for enjoying it.
But I will target dairy as entirely unnecessary. Milk and cheese… Not really configured for much other than very very youthful life forms. Need a lot of calories and usually very specific dietary needs… Milk has been a sham for profit for some time…
But yeah. I deal with my mind as a separate field of reality… I don’t use medications… I rely on diet for reassurance… But healthy sleep hygeine and aversion of mind influencing substances as my management system.
Like schizo probably need bout 10 hours of sleep a day… And enough physical exercise to make that practical.
I hope you read stuff on here…there is stuff people talk about here all the time to help…but you have to be here to read it…it is too much to talk about what could help in one post…but it all takes time…stick on AP.
Neither do I but that’s just the way it is. All the complaining in the World won’t make it go away. We’ve just got to cope with it. Weight gain- I’ve heard that a few drugs are weight neutral but if the drug that works best with the voices is not then I suggest just to keep in mind that some people like plus sized women if you are worried about that. Other advice is that the voices are actually as human as you are and if you feed them garbage and criticism they’ll dish it out back to you. A sense of humor helps with the voices. And remember you are not alone. Others have it too and although every psychosis is different there are many similarities as well. Good luck.
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Ppl in poverty and with worse diseases than schizophrenia don’t like their situation even more than us. Severe depression, severe mental disability, complete paralysis, cancer, dementia, poverty, other deadly diseases such as infections, etc