Do you ever just get tired of being sick? Tired of the symptoms? Tired of the anxiety? Tired of the medication? Tired of the labels? I’m feeling defeated. I’m constantly giving 120% effort at work and it’s only ever seen as a “normal” person’s 80% effort. It’s so unfair.
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Yes, after being a straight A student, it is difficult to watch myself get C’s in everything I do now. I would never have been content to get C’s before the trouble began.
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Yes but not to the point of being depressed.
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I’ve gotten tired of the medication, the lack of intrinsic motivation, and the labels.
I have an Aunt with a lot of contacts who seems to tell everyone that I’m a schizophrenic. I can hear it in their voice and see it in their eyes: “Is he going to go crazy at any second?”
This, despite the fact that I had, count them, 1 psychotic episode 13 years ago for which I was not hospitalized. The word schizophrenic seems to work some sort of magic in most people’s heads.
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I’m really tired of the medication
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40 years with it. Shouldn’t I be in the Guiness book of World Records or something?
It seems like only yesterday I was 19, psychotic and sleeping on a dirty mattress thrown on the floor in a tiny room at Soteria House for a year.
It seems like only yesterday that I woke up at 11:30 am from a Seroquel induced stupor, fixed breakfast and ran errands. Oh wait, that really was yesterday.
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It’s the new norm for me.
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I get really tired of it. But I dislike all my chronic illnesses.
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Just the way it goes.
You’re doing a great thing keeping up with employment. That can be hard for a lot of people, with or without SZ.
I would pursue a new meds regime if you’re still suffering from symptoms and anxiety.
There are a few off label prescriptions that might help anxiety. Pregabalin was something I never heard of as it’s a nerve pain med, but it seems to have worked.
Only problem is meds only love half the picture
Maybe what’s happening here is that you need a career change?
My old job made me feel like you do right now, but since lockdown I have been doing something else, and I feel so much better taking all that ■■■■■■■■ from my old work out of my life.
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Yeah iam tired of the threats my voices give me
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It’s a bad time to be schizophrenic, because they’re not using the right drugs yet. The article about glutamate receptors being the real problem, rather than dopamine, says clozapine, Olanzapine and quetiapine work best for attenuating glutamate receptor antagonists.
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Yea it causes me major depression and I suffer badly I dont know how long more I can go on for.
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I’m tired of how people treat me and I’m tired of the fear and I’m tired of the avolition.
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I’ve an uncle with Parkinsons. He does progressively worse each year and there’s not any answers there either. It’s never an easy thing but years ago we had members who had email address’ that were the institutions…
We are ahead of our fellow sufferers even 20 years ago by a lot. It’s not ideal but we have options we never had with our current medications.
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İ don t like being unemployment i like being active all day.i m going to work at 8.10am and working until 5.10 pm.its about 9 hours .if i will be retired i will go and search more hard work regimen.i will probably work 12 -14 hours at restaurant as a chef.i will be a chef.real one.i mean i hope so.fingercrossed.i dont tired of anything.just life some kind of pointless sometimes thats it.but i understand your feelings.but i think those thoughts are just semantical illusions.try to be more positive.
Yeah, I’m tired of taking the meds. It’s like beeing trapped in a second rate alternate reality. It’s frustrating all the things that are lost to me that I had before. But on the other hand I guess I am lucky that this didn’t happen to me 50 years ago and they give me electroshock therapy instead.
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When I was unmedicated, I had racing internal voices 24-7 for about 5 years.
It was soooo tiresome.
Day in and day out, I couldn’t hear myself think and things were super jumbled in my head.
There were many times where I wanted to just sleep it all away.
Now with Abilify, I only experience them about 25% of the time-- waaaay more manageable.
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I’m tired of taking Invega and Leponex. They make me tired but on the other hand voices are manageable now. I hope it lasts.
Same here. I’m tired of even thinking about schizophrenia.
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I’m tired of the avolition
At least it gave me a break today…painted for first time in five months
If I am not mistaken, a few days time I will not be painting for a while because avolition returns all too soon
But let’s hope I’m wrong…got a new style I would like to try out
I’m tired of taking expensive meds too - its a burden on our budget
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