2005-2009 - awesome, fun, high school days
2010-2011 college, worked at a cemetery these 2 years.
2012 - psychotic break/admission to psych ward.
2013 - stabilized on meds, worked as a junior web developer for a few months.
2014 - went back to college to get an advanced diploma.
2015 - worked all year, 2 jobs/7 days a week near the end
2016 - relapse/stopped taking meds/admission to psych ward.
2017 - joined this forum
2018 - wanted to change my medication/admission to psych ward.
2020 - stopped meds/almost arrested/admission to psych ward.
2021 - great year, lived at my dad’s, made some new friends.
2022 - had a job for a few months.
1990-1995. I was living in a board & care home but it was good for me and I had my most productive years. I was working full time, I was going to community college, and attending 5 or 6 AA, CA and NA meetings a week. I
had a friend I did everything with who went with me to meetings and we often attended AA functions like dances and barbecues. I also got into service in AA and was a Group Service Representative for a group which meant I went to a special meeting once week with other GSR’s and we conducted AA business meetings.
I was catching a bus 1 1/2 hours to work and 1 1/2 hours back and on the way home I often stopped at my two favorite restaurants for dinner. I was having a lot of fun doing things on weekends with my family like going to comedy clubs, going to clubs, went to an airshow, the beach and camping and waterskiing. I also traveled a little with my dad and flew across the country several times and I used to catch the Amtrak train from San Jose to Sacramento to visit my dad. I did a lot more too.
Things were best in my twenties. I wish I had tried to enjoy myself more. Just made money and had fun. I was worried about getting a useless degree. I shouldn’t have gone to school until my daughter was in school all day. I would have made more money at an easier job.
Wow you have a good memory for dates. I can’t break down my life into years like that lol… 28 was a good time for me but I personally think my best years are yet to come.
I never had issues before I got my first substance induced psychosis in 2011 from marijuana. It was in college my senior year. I was studying math and struggled and dropped out.
I persevered my whole life. I had no true friends or a lot of friends. My dad was tough on me. I was an Atheist and didn’t ‘fit in’ with the family.
I had childhood friends.
I had problems socializing, depression, etc. I had an eating disorder. I probably had anxiety, social anxiety, and paranoia growing up.
I feel like I lost 10-20 IQ points. I struggle with hygiene, planning, routine, and motivation, and memory, and anxiety, and can’t seem to get a job or finish a degree anymore.
I felt like I had PTSD from schizophrenia or trauma from my psychosis.
Fall of 2005 through the end of 2007. Those were the first two years of my relationship with the woman who went on to become my wife, now ex wife. Those were the happiest years of my life.
It was wonderful; I was on top of the world, though I was a bit psychotic that whole time, as well as manic for the early part of it. Oh well.
My life has been pretty good the past few years, I suppose, other than being a bit stressful.
