I’m glad you at least have a friend to pal around with. I’m sorry you lost your only friend
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I’m glad you have friends @daydreamer
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its something that happened very gradually after my med change in 2011, i started getting my feelings back bc i had the blunt effect and it got better so i started to rediscover myself and it took a long time but my social skills improved and i went from there,
I’m not boasting, like i hope people dont think i am boasting but i would like people to know that it is not impossible for that to happen and to remain hopeful about that sort of thing
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I agree. It’s good you’re letting others know making friends is still possible. It gives people hope. It lets them know they don’t have to be alone. It’s not easy, but it can and does happen.
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I kept 2 friends from school, my best from 2nd grade on, so since 1991. And the guy I call my brother and uncle to my kids, also hubby’s best friend and Mike is who introduced me to John. Without Mike, no 20 year relationship, I’ve known Mike like 2 weeks longer than John. But that’s all I kept, they knew about my sz from beginning of friendship. Kristin, my best friend, was there when I came back from surgery and it was triggered, so she’s the one who in5th grade said hey, we’ll get thru this.
I am friends with John’s coworkers more, cause I guess I make interesting company as I am not shy about being a practicing Witch, and some come to me for help with things. You all may not see it as a religion, but it is for me. I’m asked for house saging and blessings, help with paranormal ongoings as we have at one family’s house. They came to me. I didn’t offer my findings so I didn’t influence, but I had same experiences at their house that weekend before they brought it up. But they treat me as a person, I’m “one of the guys” cause I still go out with them when invited, like we’re all going as a group, thebhusbands and wives on Feb 16th to Red Robin in Madison to celebrate my bday Feb 11, Bday for couples, and John and my’s 20 year anniversary Feb 18. No kids, just adults.
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It sounds like you get treated really well. That’s awesome!!!
I think I do @LilyoftheValley considering past experiences in school. A couple people from high school have tried to friend me on Facebook over the years, I accepted and they just asked questions they had no right to ask. So blocked 'em. One re-requested today, I’m debating cause her husband was her boyfriend in high school, and he beat on her then, and I know he still is, so I don’t want to get dragged into it again. I was the bad person for telling her that she deserved better and he was a piece of ■■■■ even back then. But I can’t offer help if you’re gonna turn it around on me. So it’s gonna be left as an unapproved request, we’ll see how I feel in a few weeks.
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This is a old news,anyway ty for sharing
He was in prison for drink driving in the US with Schizophrenia.
I was also in a young offenders institute when I was 17 when I was psychotic, and I can tell you it was awful.
In the UK we have mental health prison wards where you get care.
Unfortunately from what I saw on a documentary, there is no such provision in the US.
I was released after a month and moved to a secure hospital and my sentence was quashed as the judge knew I was not myself.
I don’t think Jake Lloyd got this kind of sympathy, nor many others.
It seems so flawed in the American prison system.
We have the same problem here with hospital beds, but they still try and do right by the patient, even if they do something wrong.
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Yeah, I’d stay away too if she’s going to make you out to be the bad guy.
Yeah I’m just gonna leave her be. I’m sure my sister who she also friend requested (my middle sis, the drug abuser with 5 kids and a heroin shooting boyfriend) is telling her all my business, or making ■■■■ up to make stories sound good. My sister is mad I wouldn’t go buy her kids groceries cause she got busted by the state for fraud of state services. She also sold her food stamps, told her not to do it on Facebook, but what would I know? I mean, she knows DOC people are on my list, and if she tags me in the post they are able to see it. We have a winner.
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She sounds careless and troubled. That’s too bad. It must be hard on you and your family
Yeah Laci is a plague on the family. Her kids are by 3 dads, 1 of which is unknown, and are 10 or younger. At 18 I took out a credit card to keep her out of jail for truancy and a car accident at 14. I’ve paid for her STD meds, stuff for her first 3 kids, and plus I’ve had to deal with the fallout of her never once having protected sex. I almost ended up with her kids a few years back, and she had to name all partners she knew the names of she’s been with that could be daddies. The named count is 50+, there’s more she never knew their names. It’s just been a mess.
But I get everything handed to me on a silver platter cause I ended up on SSDI, married, and planned kids that we take care of. Yeah my kids wear secondhand clothes except for like new sweatpants cause my boys are tall as hell. But she wants name brand only, etc. It’s hard to have compassion for someone I raised for years when my mom had her breakdown that acts like I did nothing.
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Wow. One of my sisters abuses alcohol and prescription drugs, she’s downright mean and cold and calculating, and she always got the good clothes growing up. I got used clothes that had no name brands. I understand your frustration with a sister.
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Poor bloke. Must have been a helluva come down to go from being in such a production to having sz. Struggling with that sort of disparity would’ve been unbearable. I wonder how old he was when it started.
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I think when he was a teenager. His mom says he has no insight so he must be really suffering too.
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…Megan Fox has schizophrenia…she doesn’t even follow anyone on Twitter…
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