Some of you here have partners. Me, I wouldn’t be capable of. I have problems even experiencing love… I know, I know, its not cool but its the reality. I dont understand why ive been always alone… Maybe I am still to symptomatic idk… Is it harder to have a partner with this illness? For those of you who have one, does he understand you, is it hard for you to maintain a relationship? Do you think that the low functioning mood is an obstacle for a relationship? I also put a lot of kilos, maybe it has its role too, lol… I live in a country where the men prefer slimmer girls, lol. But I know the main now is my health…
But in a way, its me who doesn’t want a relationship cause I am confused when it comes to this… My feelings are confused, I cant feel joy from almost anything etc etc…
I can’t enjoy love, cos I can’t enjoy anything. I am weird as regards the relationships. I am moody. I don’t know if anyone can choose us as partner knowing we have sz.
Not harder for me, as we would be able to understand and support each other better than if he had never experienced schizo stuff… (schizophrenia, schizoaffective, schizotypal, schizoid etc).
I don’t have schizophrenia but I visit this forum a lot so I must like you guys haha 
My sister said once that a normal person wouldn’t never date a schizophrenic, yeah… Idk, why my family is so discriminating in a way, is this the largest opinion among the people outside? I dont communicate with anybody anymore so I am detached from what the people think about us in general… But my ran away from me too, this is a fact. He thought that its a depression in the beginning…
I wanted to ask you, if you aren’t diagnosed with schizophrenia, what drove you to seek and join this forum, @Jesspresso ?
Me, I was totally ignorant about symptoms of schizophrenia before getting it myself…
I think @shutterbug , and possibly @PatrickT and @jukebox - they have schizophrenia and are maried to “normal” ladies. So anything is possible.
@oh I almost forgot @firemonkey - he also had a long and happy marriage in the past.
I just dont understand why my family are such hard about this sz. They have it in the family and despite this they say that they would never marry a schizophrenic… Does this illness scare so much the normies? I always lived with it, so I dont know why its so scary for the normies. Do you think the normal people are afraid from it?
Yes, many healthy people are afraid of sz because of the bad media portrayal. In the news we often hear about a serial killer or a maniac who slayed his family and he /she had schizophrenia.
They don’t know that 99% of schizophrenics are not violent, and even less so if they take their meds.
So ultimately, they are being ignorant assholes, but it’s not entirely their fault. More journalists should do us justice and help build a more accurate image of this illness.
Why don’t you start a blog, @Anna1 ? You could write about your personal experience, in Bulgarian and French. Maybe some readers will get interested and you could make some online friends, maybe even real life friends…l
Me, if I ever hit it big, I will come out of the closet and tell everyone about my experience with schizophrenia. That could set a positive example and teach people some compassion.
I am not sure I will ever be successful, but I am doing my best…
I can’t remember exactly what I searched, but I was searching the internet for the thoughts/ideas I was having and some members here had already made threads about these thoughts/ideas .
In fact Andrey I was so reckless and crazy in one moment that I told everyone around me that I have sz… Even to my hairdresser, even to some guys with whom I was going out. And they just were scared from it, nothing else. But I was in bad shape too at this time, I hadn’t a lot other quailities then in the past cause I was simply ill. But I find that I should learn sometimes to not be so open on it. I have an obsession with this illness too, its not always a good thing if you see…
He iz high high functional sz…he deserve to get married …u are also in a path of being high functioning sz…so those who are low functioning should not .marry cuz it will be worthless…
For instance, it is one thing to believe in angels or saints or God and Jesus, and another thing to hear them talk to you. In the first situation you would be called a religious person, but in the latter case the society will brand you delusional.
And in recent history (I am not talking about 2k years ago) a scientific approach to supernatural claims has always found them to be unsubstantiated.
In other words, what we cannot measure with physical instruments other than our own mind is considered a subjective experience, and any extrasensorial perception is seen as the result of a deranged psyche.
The trouble with people who claim to hear voices, or read minds, is that they usually become dysfunctional in their daily life. This is why even a society tolerant to religion or supernatural beliefs will try to help them in a scientific way.
This is why psychiatric medicines have been invented.
And as long as you acknowledge that your current mental state might hinder your everyday functioning way above normal threshholds, it is time to think about trying these medicines. In most cases, people who took antipsychotics have had their voices and paranoia diminish, or even disappear.
Having a partner can be a great help with the illness. I’m able to rely on mrs moonwalker for reality testing, confirmation of auditory hallucinations, remembering different things that relate to how I am or were. And someone to tell me I’m crazy if I think about stopping medication. I can’t count number of benefits.
I met her before bipolar and later paranoia and sz so she’s been thru it all with me, each and every psychotic break and hospitalization
I am looking for another relationship but not able to realise to deal with if any problems arise.
You are right, it might be pointless to get married as a low functioning ill person. But it is not pointless to do the best you can, every day, in order to become high functioning again 
@far_cry0, become indian. My mother married me to have wife for boiling rice for me.
@anon68148378 u are high functioning chap…u earn ur living by urself…u are a awesome person…u only have positive symptoms…god bless u i am not marrying …
I’m not sure whether the question is if it’s hard to have a partner that has the illness, or if it’s hard to have this illness and a partner.
I think having this illness and having a partner can be tough, because even though they can be very understanding of what we’re going through, our illness will try to make us push them away and say hurtful things.
On the other hand, having a partner that has the illness can be hard too, for the same reason.
A partner might try to be understanding, but strike us as annoying even when we have nothing to base it on. I wish I had a partner, but I don’t want to feel like one of us is relying on the other to care care, and do reality checks. Codependency really scares me, and usually has me running away screaming,