I drove a car after 10 years

I feel pretty good-- after 10 years I drove a car for a few hours today.

This is symbolic as it means that there is some degree of control over things in my life again. Cognitive symptoms are surely reversing.

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My cognitives also reversed.

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How? By themselves or you put effort and reversed them?

By themself. After years.

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That is good. I have been putting a lot of effort to see an improvement.

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Good for you. I bet that felt liberating. I drove recently after a year break. I was very anxious. But I did it.

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It was surely liberating as I felt in a cage not being able to drive.

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Good for you. Welcome back to the road. To me having a car and driving is freedom.

My job requires me to drive up to 10 hours a day, although most shifts are about 6-7 hours.

I’ve had my problems with schizophrenia but thankfully driving has never been a problem for me

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sounds great but dont crash, crashing is bad :slight_smile:

The 1st day I had my car license I scratched the car that was parked next to me because I didn’t knew the steering wheel had a full turn given and I didn’t notice soon enough.
I had a few crashes leaving parking spaces and most of them related to parking.
Never had a crash on the road tho

I had cognitive impairment symptoms long before any psychosis. They only reversed, temporarily, while I was hypomanic, and only during my first episode. I’ve recently had cognitive remediation therapy (CRT), but I’m sure yet whether it helped at all.

-Albert.

Congratulations! Definitely, there are areas we can definitely recover in as people.

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