I can’t help feeling like we with schizo are chosen people with a heightened sense of awareness and have been chosen for a special mission. Mission to help people. We’re special and chosen. We suffer special illness.
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Goes around in my head
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I don’t feel very special. I feel hated by all those around me except my few friends and some of my family. But the general population loves to hate me
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chosen to get headaches.
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How we gonna help people?
I’m sorry to hear that @LilyoftheValley and @PinCushion am I thinking wrong? Why would I feel so chosen and special with sza then?
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Heya earthchild hows it going?
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Hi Wallafish, ok I guess, I’m coping just just. Hope you ok too 
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Chosen to be shittiest and unluckiest ppl.
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Seriously if you feel special or chosen its the psychosis. Thats how I felt off meds, I thought I had the best genes, that I was the smartest on earth and that I can do miracles. After being on meds it turns out I am exactly the opposite of those lol
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Special as in special needs, maybe.
Whoever gave me this “gift” can have it back any time they like.
Blech.
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For a chosen one, I feel pretty unaware of a lot of what’s going on.
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I think it’s important to take all the voices with a grain of salt, this goes for the “good” ones too. As I told someone else, the best thing to do is activities that pull you into the real world, not the inner world. That’s what I love about crochet. I’m working with a physical object (a big ball of yarn), counting the different stitches. Writing stories is a bit different, I have to rely on my own imagination, and it’s become unsatisfying lately, because I’m tired of living vicariously. I think it contributes to me being stuck in a fantasy land.
What do you think your mission is? 
I think it’s okay to choose to help people as long as you remember to take care of your own health too. That’s very important for those with our condition.
When I’m in a good mood, I like to believe everyone born on this Earth is special and unique, and has some purpose to being here. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like that at all. I often feel I’m being tortured, and that life is pointless.
I think people with schizophrenia have a greater understanding of suffering. Some people use this understanding to be a good listener, friend, family member, etc. Others use it for self-cherishing by looking down at everyone with lesser problems (I encountered someone like that on another forum who used his crippling-painful back injury to attack everyone who was “healthy”, calling them pathetic and weak for complaining in the “help me” section of the site).
Anyway, this is getting long so I’ll hit the reply button before it grows…
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Am I delusional to think I’m special and chosen then? I’ve felt this way for at least eight years straight. Does that mean I’ve been psychotic all this time without stopping? I’m confused. I hope I didn’t offend anyone with my post!
I think it’s delusional because it’s a false belief. Chosen implies there’s a powerful decision maker making selections and causing sz in people. You don’t have to know what the exact reality of sz is to know that being chosen to have it is not right.
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I disagree with most of you who say we are not chosen. To me it explains why we have such a unique set of symptoms. Our symptoms convey, “I surely must be special if I think the whole world is resolving around me in my delusions. Or because in my paranoia everyone is secretly interested in me.” In the psychotic stage I felt very, very special, though I was wrong.
Also, I ask why it seems my whole life (a long time) was shaped around getting sz? My answer is that it has a purpose and I was chosen for it. It is hard to explain to you all, but I suffered with the illness too, but I was selected for this. For my whole life.
In my particular view I am a very special person. You may not like to hear this. But to keep healthy, I must learn humility. So I counter the self aggrandizement with a sense of humility, which enables be to be a nicer person.
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i think were special too
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Sz people are generaly different.
Each human being who suffers and caries burden of life have more hightend sence of existence.
I use it to make my self more humble. And listen.
But it always ends bitter cause people know you only when they need shoulder.
I don’t think we are on a special mission and chosen.
How are we supposed to help people when we have psychotic episodes? I’m sorry but this is kind of ridiculous many people with SZ can’t even function on their own.
I remember I thought something similarly before I got ill. I was so fascinated and focussed on how People with psychosis could see, hear and imagine things. That must be so exciting, I thought. Now I know a whole lot better. The negative symptoms is kind of hell, and so are the side effects from the AP many of us are forced to take. And for me when I try to make sense from my psychosis I find out that it makes No sense. All the things I’d so strongly believed and felt while I was psychotic are just nonsense now.
Though I wish, I could see it from your point of view because believing, that you’re chosen and special must feel better than just thinking life sucks.
And please Come again what was it that you think we are chosen for?
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