So you are diagnosed with sz. And after that life is pretty tragic for a while, at least for me. But does that mean we have to wallow in it forever? Is their happiness and success for us in the future? Searching for hope.
the only hope is in a cure, that or learn to live as a handicapped person and be o with it. Im personally not ok with it
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Life is never quite the same after schizophrenia. It is tougher the first few years after diagnosis. There is recovery in the form of becoming stable. Last year I even managed to take a few college classes. I haven’t experienced full recovery to the point where I can be a productive member of society again. You don’t have to wallow in tragedy forever though. Once you feel more stable, you’ll grow used to the illness. There is hope for the future. Don’t give up, maybe you’ll be more successful in your recovery than I’ve been. As for happiness, well there are good days.
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I hear that. I try not to think about it too much.
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Currently enjoying happiness and success right now despite having SZ.
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Life gets better everyday you live and learn.
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I’ve had paranoid schizophrenia for 35 years. I got diagnosed when I was 19 and now I’m 55. I’ve been hospitalized 10 or 11 times, once for eight months. But I got out of the hospitals and worked for almost 35 years, gone to school, lived independently in society for twenty years until a year ago. I’ve been driving my own cars since 1995. I need just three more classes for my AA degree.
And I once even had a cat, lol. Having my cat was probably my biggest accomplishment, lol. I’m just kidding.
But seriously, in the last 35 years I’ve met quite a few other people with schizophrenia. I’ve been in hospitals with them, I’ve lived with them, I’ve worked with them, I’ve been friends with them. I’ve seen so many amazing comebacks from people who had spent time in hospitals like me, and group homes like me, and are on medication like me. I’ve met people in hospitals who look like they’re in pretty bad shape only to see them years later after they got out and they look ten times better and they share how they’ve worked for years or went back to school. I’ve met ugly guys who get the pretty girlfriend who rejected everybody else except for them.
I’ve personally had friendships with people who tell me that they will never work again but I meet them five years later and they tell me how they got a job and stayed there for years. Yes, we can’t get everything we want and we have to make adjustments to succeed that non-schizophrenics don’t have to make. But I’ve seen too many success stories during my life so I’m not going to roll over and give up. We can do this. We might not get everything we want in life but we sure can get a lot. And I’ve seen this with my own eyes.
I’m 55 now and I get fairly content a lot of the time. I’ve been at my janitor job for 5 years now. It’s not the most glamorous job but keeping a job for 5 years can be seen as quite an accomplishment considering where I came from (the hospitals) It’s easy work and not too hard and I get to work on my own. I like my co-workers and I like most of the office workers in the office building. Hope and recovery is a reality for lots and lots of people with schizophrenia. Good luck. I hope this helps.Take care.
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I remember the intense feeling of triumph when I got my diploma for my MA. Might not have even attempted a grad program if it was not just to prove everybody wrong.
What we go through, nobody can fathom but one of our own. Not even people who take lsd can understand the depths of madness. To come out of that and get through my bachelor’s and master’s made me feel so proud, so much like an in your face can’t shut me down kind of way.
Pride feelings are rare, but accomplishing things despite sz is a major rush.
That moment on the stage, for that moment, I felt like I’d left normies in my dust.
That one moment might not ever repeat, but I can feed off that sensation during my weakest moments.
Don’t give up.
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Sz put a big stop to my plans after school and affected my interest in life. Then I went into remission and there was suddenly hope. Then I relapsed and had to go back on meds and since then over the last five years it’s been easier and easier. Slowly but surely my interests are returning. I am now starting to draw and soon paint too after several years of nothing. I feel like I am rediscovering myself. Sz follows a cycle of ups and downs and I know that I need my meds to keep stable but there is hope after sz and life can carry on after regaining a footing. Do not give up, the sun will rise again as it always will till the end of time.
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I am maxed out on meds and am functioning well enough to go to school full time. I estimate I am about 30 percent of what I used to be but compared to myself at my worst I am doing well.
Things can get better.
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I’m almost two years in and I have experienced miraculous states of recovery on medication. Sz is typically a life sentence, and not everyone gets better, but many enjoy periods where there are less symptoms, this is often with the help of medication in some form. I was a severe patient, all the odds were against me, I was young, male, extensive family history, mainly negative symptoms, insidious onset, treatment resistant – these are all factors which typically spell out a bad prognosis or outcome with this disease. But now I have largely recovered, I still suffer from negative symptoms, I still suffer severe breakthrough positive symptoms on medication, but overall my future is bright, better than many. Over the past 20 months I have gone from severe impairment to being able to think, feel and enjoy life again. I am still deficient in many areas, but I am slowly getting better, so perhaps there is some hope for me. I am religious and I believe God chose to give me schizophrenia because it was better for me in the long run. If I had never gotten sick I would be much more functional and productive, but I try not to dwell on that, because even though I am a bit less productive on medication, I am still almost at the level I was at before all this happened. Don’t lose hope, there is always a chance for remission or recovery.
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