I missed out on my thirties and early forties with sz. almost didn’t make it through the recovery process of accepting my disease…how about you?
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At least you got your twenties. I’m snapping out of it now, but I’m almost 30. Hopefully my thirties and forties will be fun… i plan to focus on things that are meaningful and see if that can make my time be well spent. Yeah though, I’m never getting my twenties back. I just wish I had listened to the people around me sooner. Maybe that would have changed things…
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I lost most of my 20s but my Mom has been a rock in my life and God has provided for me
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Lost my 20’s to depression and anxiety. Lost my 30’s to Sz and anxiety. I’ll be 40 in February.
My greatest wish is to recover and find a gf. But I’m slowly accepting the fact that it’s not possible. I’m an emotional wreck, have no confidence and esteem. No woman wants a guy with no confidence.
I wish I had a hobby in order to get my mind off of things but I can’t seem to be able to engage my mind in to anything. It’s like my mind is always idle. I’m not passionate about anything.
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@Speedy I was up front about my schizophrenia with all the women I met online dating…a lot of them went away, but my wife understood me and accepted me the way I am…don’t give up.
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Yeah, I’ll have to be honest if I meet someone. There is no way in hiding this illness.
Online dating seems so shallow. People just swipe each other. There is no way in explaining nor talking. I’m really discouraged about online dating!
try plenty of fish dot com…that’s where I met my wife and it’s free to use…at least it used to be.
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“It’s never ever too late.” to gain a spirited life. Not necessarily gf or bf but to spread cheer to anyone you meet.
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I lost my 20s, 30s, and 40s, and am still fighting for stability at almost 52. I get it.
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I tend to agree with this sentiment I was a young buck in 2015 and it kinda sucked to lose those years to recovery.
I’m still not perfect, but I feel that I’ve gotten closer to getting more out of my life these days.
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what is this process ??
of acceptance the disease
i need this very much
till now i dont accept my illness
the voices SAY WE ARE REAL PPL THEY …
I FEEL I M TALKING TO STRANGE PPL ON THE INTERENET
VOICES SAY ::YOU SEE WE ARE REAL PP…
I WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION
I HOPE YOU ANSWER MY QUESTIONS TOO
OMG
all my tweenties wasted with scz and those WHO CALL THEMSELVED REAL PPL IN MY HEAD , THEY SAY THEY ARE INTEL AGENCIES
AND YOU ARE TARGETTED , YOUR VERY EXPERIENCED SPY !!!..WHY NOT TO BECOME SPY …SAME STORY REPEATED EVERYDAY EVERYDAY FOR 12.5 YEARS NOW FROM JULY 2010 !!!
AND LONELINESS HURT ME EVERYDAY
FAILING …NEGATIVE THINKING HURT ME TOO
I M NOW 32 YO
My best years were my 30’s. Very productive years for me. I was employed and going to school and doing great at my jobs and was really into AA, CA and NA. Did all kinds of fun stuff and did a tiny bit of traveling and first moved out on my own. My 40’s weren’t as productive but I still did a lot, still worked, still lived on my own.
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The way I look at it is that it took all that time for me to get to where I am, and I am where I need to be.
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I just stopped caring. At 26 my voices told me I was sad, I hadn’t become anything. At 46 my Alter tells me I’m a peasant. I wouldn’t have known had it not been for the voices. Believe it or not.
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What do the little bubbles mean?
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I couldn’t delete my post. So erased it with bubbles.
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For your own sake and for the sake of the people connected to you learn to talk back to the voices. Maybe you had a few slip ups, but you had a good reason to.
I appreciate the suggestion but I beat the voices, they just have more sense than I sometimes except when they tell me to take a grayhound out of town.
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