Sometimes when I see new posters I just think of them as another screen name, without putting a true identity to them as I should. Maybe you wanna just blend in, or maybe you do wanna use this forum as an interactive social community with others. Today @catsrcool who I didn’t even know anything about told us a lot about himself. Now I have a better understanding of who you are as a person and where you are in life and everything you’ve been going through. Which has helped me a lot. So if any of you new posters wanna tell us anything about yourself, this is one of many threads to do it! And @catsrcool maybe its because I haven’t been around for a long time since my return…I know you’re not a brand new member here but still new in my mind. So yeah.
New members in my mind are anyone I didn’t really get to know before I left in December for a while. But maybe other people have different ideas of what a new member is.
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Yeah I like to blend in. Get paranoid and stuff haha. But I’m just thinking ■■■■ it, I wanna get better and this is a good community. Thanks man.
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Thanks for the post 
I am a paranoid schizophrenic new to the forum. I also started to take care of my mom last year after she started having physical health issues. I stopped my job to stay at home and I am trying to be strong to help her, but it has been difficult because I have my own issues with anxiety and paranoia. Since her health issues started, I have become depressed and my motivation has become so low. Sometimes I don’t have the energy to cook for her and I feel paranoid to get groceries that I end up ordering pizza which is detrimental to her health. I feel really guilty about this. She loves me unconditionally and was the only person who cared about me during the low points of schizophrenia.
I have a sister, but we don’t keep in contact because she took advantage and manipulated me when when my self esteem was low. It was a bad experience, but I became a stronger person after it, though I have a hard time trusting people. My sister nor my mom’s family ever call to see how my mom is doing, so I have learned to try to rely on myself. I am very appreciative that I found the forum because it fills me with positivity and I have noticed my motivation is becoming better. Thanks for letting me share.
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Oh man how old are you and how old is your mother?
I am 25 years old and my mom is in her late 40s.
Man I am sorry to hear your mother is in bad health at her age. That must be really difficult. Especially since you’re so young too…it must be hard to care for someone when you’re only 25. Was hard enough for me to even care for myself when I was at your age (I am only 2 years older, but those 2 years can make a big difference)
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Thanks for the support. It is difficult, I am just trying to keep hope 
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I guess I feel like I live in a nightmare. I don’t know how useful this information is to anyone
i would like everyone to know…im awesome…that is all… lol good thread idea @Goyankees
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I was extremely paranid to come onto this forum i thought everyone was going to judge me even though no one know s me. i browsed it for a few months back on and back off and actually realized i didnt see one person hating or running down people who needed help. Also the eccentric ways of some of the folk are truly funny.
Amazing how i could never get facebook or anything remotely that has access to people i dont know. I have just somehow trusted this forum as we all have the same objective and values in place. I hate what I am i and i hate them meds cause they make me feel like im just changing who i should be. Sometimes we down and i enjoy reading about it and feeling their pain or venting some weird thing.
My parents dont accept MI they been brought up in that stigma way. they hide it to he max where I also need to cause feel im the disappointment. im 28 live at home, have no control of life. I tried to become religious so i could trust god but then he himself showed me he cant be trusted and was a waste of time… Its hard having no one who must know or no one to trust. i cant trust my own family. I have tried but my mom always has arterial motives.
The only person i semi trust is my Psychiatrist shes good to me. She refuses to let anyone tell em what i am shes knows i dont want it… As ive mentioned the label scares me and all i want is the meds to attempt to get me to live a real life where and then get off meds eventually. i know i can just got to believe haha. when the super med comes out that i only need to take once every 5 years.
May the good force be with you great people.
Keep it real <3
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I am 46 years old and I take care of my 75 year old mother. She has a lot of physical problems. She is also depressed a lot. When My schizo affective was bad she took care of me. She is the only person who cared when I wanted to die. She would make sure that I was still alive. I would be dead if I didn’t have her in my life.
When I tried to overdose on pills she stayed with me until the pills wore off. Sometimes I would be out for days. She even took me to the hospital when I took too many pills. My mom drives me to appointments and even helped me get ssdi. I owe her a lot, so now I take care of her.
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Nice to meet you online or read a little about you guys.
Hope you will enjoy the forum.
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