Is it possible that the result of having schizophrenia makes us more insightful? Surely we see things differently and I would venture to say this has value. Who wants to experience what a so called normal person does? We bring an enlightened perspective as individuals diagnosed with Sz.
What do you think?
Nah, my insight isn’t better than pre-sz. I do spend much more time now pondering the meaning of life, but I’d trade that quality for having a family or at least more physical and mental energy.
I hear you Andrey! But our perspective I believe brings about more introspection and therefore our perspective can have value! So often all I hear about is what we can’t do. Well we can do plenty!
Doubt it. I am certain it shaved some IQ point off of me as I was able to get my head around things easier before the illness.
Nope, nothing spectacular with this illness.
For me it’s the meds
Decades of being on powerful antipsychotics and mood stabilizers have taken its toll on my cognition
Someone in a group I attended said " hearing voices was a gift"
It’s always one over the other.
Like a blind person can improve other sensory inputs, same way sz can improve in some aspects. But don’t be carried over !
All I am saying is who have gone through sz , are more cautious in any task.
Example: After sz I have not met with an accident. 
My first bike which weighed around 210kg had never taken a fall. Which had completed 30,000 kms in 5 years.
But yes before sz had fallen and met with accident multiple times.
Hope I don’t fall with over confidence.
Yes we can/are to be cautious.
But any variation tried in the chemistry of the brain.
Will induce severe issues we are not aware off.
My mother-in-law keeps giving me soap on a string as a gift every holiday. I don’t need that, either.
Look, up in the sky! Its a bird. No it’s a plane. No, it’s SuperSchizo man!
Schizoman, the man of steel.
Faster than a racing mind, more powerful when he’s loco, able to leap to wrong conclusions at a single delusional thought.
Yikes i dont know where to look 
Truly clever dude!
Thanks for the giggle!
@Wave one of my last pdocs, who was not only a pdoc, but an academic and a noted researcher, told me that my mild cognition impairment was not due to long-term, multiple, AP ingestion, but rather due to long-term, repeated, psychotic episodes. He told me that AP’s actually improve cognition.
SZ takes away all my brain power. The meds give me insight on what a brain can do when not distracted.
It might make us more resilient but that’s all down to the way we handle the illness and how good our meds react with us, i don’t think i am special in any way for having a sz diagnosis & now mpd,
If anything it has a supervillain vibe…we get stigmatised, we find it hard to do normal every day things, no job. Superheroes are the guys that join the army or navy etc, I’d say there is more worth in a guy who does a 9-5 job cleaning toilets than being sz.
I wouldn’t say sz GIVES us super powers per se, but everyone has certain strengths and weaknesses. We all fit into a sort of archetype. There’s usually pros and cons to every archetype. So while sz doesn’t really give us powers, the typical sz I think does have better powers of intuition and things like that. Can see facts further off than the average human being and perhaps mentally penetrate beyond surface level things which some people can’t. Life comes with a gift and a curse.
Yes, this too 155555
But when I’m on higher doses they dull my senses.
This is what I was trying to put across
No it’s not possible, we are simply mentally disabled.
