So I thought of myself as high functioning, but as I don’t do any chores, can’t take a shower, can’t pay the bills, can’t do errands, can’t tolerate people. I feel i am low functioning
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Sometimes I don’t have energy to eat. Everything is difficult
I feel the same way.
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I thought of my self as high functioning because I could work. But now I can’t even work. Going for groceries is a huge mountain to climb
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U might be somewhere in the middle that’s where I’d put me. I hope to be high functioning one day but all of society might make a turn for the worse in functioning once we have machines do everything for us.
I think as long as I live in Connecticut I’ll be low functioning cuz it’s so demoralizing to live here and I’m stuck in this trap of disability with no real motivation to get out of it. Idk.
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Maybe middle functioning as I can log in in this forum
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I have this illness for only one year. The worse are yet to come. It deteriorates every day
I’m high functioning, able to work and live alone, though I still have difficulties. I have difficulty with motivation, my apartment is always a filthy mess, it’s nothing unusual to call off from work, even from a job I generally enjoy (teaching), and I also have difficulty with showering and hygiene in general. Most of the time I shower only on days I work, since I figure I have no choice but to do so.
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Good. You are independent and high functioning but you have some problems too. I see
I’ve had this illness for at least fifteen years now, and it gets worse, then better, then worse, then better … it doesn’t have to be a steady decline; you might start improving at some point. 
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Yep. My symptoms come in waves. Negatives occasionally are severe, then they stop. Then I have positives. I always have something. I am never without symptoms. Paranoid schizophrenia has greater prognosis. I have undifferentiated.
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I tell my mom those were my good days, don’t let it be a standard.
However, today, I cleaned the entire kitchen, including the floors,
ate lunch, got my pills in, took a bath and shaved, fed and watered the dog,
took her out pottie, organized the recycling, and wrote jokes, and blogged a little.
I guess I’m high functioning with schizophrenia, but my paranoid conspiracy beliefs are a lot harder to live with. Will be better if I can stay quitted from beer, I’ll get out more, never wanted a DUI. thank God, I never got one.
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Why is CT demoralizing? Is it dreary there this time of year?
I’ve probably had it just as long as u. Maybe even longer. Despite being younger. It really has improved.
I mean I’ve had multiple rock bottoms but in May of 2014 I was living in a group home and took 95 mg of klonopin and 4 mg of Xanax and ended up getting hospitalized. A week later went home for the weekend found some shrooms stashed in the ceiling I ate all 5 grams mixed with alcohol and abilify then on the comedown drank 2 cups of coffee. Wanted to sleep but couldn’t. It was awful. I was on the verge of blacking our every single day relying on klonopin to keep me from feeling like I was gonna black out or permanently lose my mind or whatever I don’t even know it was so bad.
Suffered like this for a while. Went to rehab 8 months sober. Meds every day. Still doing terrible. Then I found the naltrexone and slowly have improved daily ever since then. And continue to it’s been a miracle.
So you never know. It could get better. I got lucky but yeah whatever happened, it worked. Can’t complain about the method…maybe you’ll find your answer @Anna1 it’s never too late.
People freaking suck i Just don’t belong here. I’m the opposite of every body in every single regard. It’s particularly cold right now yes usually it’s my favorite season but record cold temperatures got me depressed to go with people cold attitudes.
What is CT?? 15154515151616
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Connecticut. Where I live. It’s the abbreviation.
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Oops. Sorry @Om_Sadasiva.
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My functioning is constantly deteriorating
I don’t know if i will have sometime someone to feed me in my mouth or wash me. It doesn’t sound too impossible