If you didn’t have the illness, what would your life be like? What would you do?
I would have done my childhood as is. but would have graduated and done well in high-school. gone to college.
oops wrong post ha ha.
Since I had symptoms from childhood,
I feel like this illness is part of who I am.
I wouldn’t trade it for a better life because I wouldn’t be the same person.
So I guess it’s hard to answer your question.
I guess I’d do pretty much the same thing.
Be a Labour MP.
It’s hard to tell because it would not be me. I got this illness as its part of what makes me me.
I really can’t predict what my life would be like, only imagine.
I’d be striving for the same things I’m striving for now.
And jogging
I can’t jog on medication.
I’m still happy with life
But sometimes I just feel so depressed like today and yesterday I binge ate again. It makes me scared for my health.
It wouldn’t be any different specifically. I’d probably just have a more built body in terms of fitness.
And maybe I’d be working more hours, that’s about it
And maybe also have better grades
Symptoms were there since 15 y.o. so not 100% sure what I would have been. I always wanted to be a Dr and I had the grades but since 15 they started going down so I got into university physiotherapy and got my degree. Sz reduces cognitive performance but mine was already high since the start. I am still good in math and physiology but forgot most of it since I got my degree years ago.
Now I cant even work or volunteer due to severe negative symptoms. My psychiatrist told me that I am wasting my intelligence but sz already stole a lot of it.
I cant even use the bit of remaining intelligence due to severe negative symptoms. It really sucks this sz. But at least I am not violent and suicidal anymore, positive symptoms are 90% gone.
In college and high school teachers invited me to math competitions bcz I had 95% average. Being paid to teach other students too.
I never had a clear picture of what I wanted to do as an adult. In high school I was reasonably good at math and physics but mediocre at biology and awful at chemistry. I was relatively good at languages too.
I liked school until the uni. I guess I wouldn’t mind being a student for life, learning just what I like (psychology, history, languages), but alas the world doesn’t work like that. I need to earn money too.
Maybe I will try to improve my coding skills for game development. Learning the Unity framework for example.
I don’t think in terms of what could have been. It’s pointless.
It would have been blessed.
Schizophrenia has done nothing of worth for me.
I don’t know where I’d be without mental illness honestly because I’ve had mental illness my whole life. I didn’t have an sz dx until my thirties but I was in and out of psych wards my whole life. There are many things I’d like to do in life that I’m just not capable of.
I would love the American dream and have 3 cars and a hot wife and a house with a white picket fence 3 sons 1 daughter a high salary and a cat
I was a highly intelligent person before Schizophrenia
I would be a highly paid Data Scientist by now on £100k per year easily.
Instead, I got to Senior Data Analyst level, and got stuck due to health being a distraction, and a reason not to cope.
Without mental health problems, I’d be doing so well, and I could actually have afforded to live in London somewhere nice.
As it happens, I am not so much bothered by all that, it was just a career path I was on less than 1 year ago that fell apart for me.
Now I am happily working as a self employed landscaper, and loving the freedom whilst still earning a good wage.
God knows. The illness is so much a part of me that I wouldn’t be the same person without it.
It’s hard to say because schizophrenia is in my blood. In college, I wanted to be an investment banker or economist at a think tank, bank, world bank, or decent college. Looking back, I realize I was never fit for investment banking. I don’t have the personality, I hate it, and I don’t understand it. I don’t like the competition, the degeneracy, etc. I like the money and benefits. Hell, trading seems fun. But you can make more money in the short term and be more respected and likeable and more intelligent with a BS in engineering and starting your own engineering company, which is what I should have done instead of side-stepping and trying to do business. I don’t think I’ll recover enough due to schizophrenia and IQ loss and loss of time.
Not sure why I majored in math (switched from economics). It makes me think my destiny was changed for the worse. Math is 10x harder at least but it’s way more fascinating and interesting and esoteric. You can change the world. Imaging and think Bitcoin.
I would have loved to been in the military, but I’m glad I didn’t do it. I still have dreams and fantasies.
I don’t know - I’ve had sza ever since high school so I guess if I never had it I would have gone to college and gotten a good job. I’m not sure further. Sza is part of me and I can’t imagine what I’d be like without it.
I think I would be a philosopher and political theorist but maybe I wouldn’t have discovered philosophy if I hadn’t had more free time because I was sick so I may have continued my studies and became a programmer.
I would be playing music in my band, cutting hair at a salon, and married to a wonderful lady.