How do you guys meet friends who also have schizophrenia in real life? Have you found any in person support groups for people with schizophrenia?
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I don’t. The people I meet in real life share interests I have like cooking, hiking, photography, paddle boarding, archery, or amateur broadcasting.
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I wouldn’t join any Club that would have me for a member.
-Groucho Marx
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I met my friends with sz/sza at a mental health clubhouse, but i also have friends from church. Maintaining friendships is hard work but i think it’s worth it.
I did know someone who had sz, but he was a strange fella. Very rude to people and arrogant (he’d look down on service workers but he himself had no work) - I cut ties with him eventually.
Then there was another one who wouldn’t stop using drugs - he had bad insight and I couldn’t figure out why he wouldn’t quit drugs every time the hospitals helped him come off them. It was sad so I cut ties again.
Then there’s one guy who makes music, he’s cool but he uses cannabis so I keep my distance
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I have been all those things in the past at different points
Don’t blame you at all. Need to look out for your own sanity in this world!
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Same, except for the arrogant of service workers
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Yea not that for me either
I was earning ÂŁ45 a day for a long time
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I use drugs as a marker for suitability in friendships now. I know what i can descend into and so I keep my distance whatever the drug maybe - even legal stuff like cigarettes and alcohol
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I have a few friends from high school, some activity friends and some friends that my partners friends with.
Im not sure id go actively looking for friends with mental illness in person. But yeah you could join a support group
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Lol “here pee in this cup”. “Ok when i get the lab results ill let you know if were cool”
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What I mean by this, is, if drug use is a form of socialising i count myself out because i can’t afford it let alone the health consequences
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I found a dungeons and dragons local group at a card and game shop that hosted things like that.
Playing pretend professionally.
I was scared to the point of shaky voice. I didn’t know if I could handle that, it had been so long since.
Part of me was scared of being hurt again. So many people I’ve loved as friends have gone to a place I can’t yet go, or at least won’t yet.
Guns, drugs, prostitution, cars. I’ve seen gamut. And lost them all.
I was the one who took things too far, took too much, did too much.
I’m the only one left alive…
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Sorry to hear that @Ooorgle .
To be honest it’s one of those things that get better the more you do it (socializing)
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I want to go horse riding but the people kinda take my time and are not nice although they pretend to be.
Maybe in another country I would have space to ride and enjoy.
My favourite agist lady was colleen .
A true beaut.
Was able to have a chat with her.
Cool 
lady as I remember.
Was at a club house for mentally ill but was kinda an outsider there too although i definitely loved people there I felt it wasn’t mutual .
There’s no such places here where I live now.
I attended Salvation Army group but they became power crazed after a while .thinking they are superior etc and a new group leader came and talked down at me and I walked out and never returned.
I know a man Joey the gypsy who refused to go to homeless shelter because the staff were on a power trip and treating him with disrespect and talking down at him etc
He was homeless ten years on street but now lives in his car.
I don’t have friends.
They pretended etc
I have a few x I can say merry Christmas to.
I haven’t met anyone with mental illness in real life. I have met friends through social groups. I have two or three friends that I met from them. Two of them have husbands and we do things as couples.
I had a so called friend with schizophrenia but he was only using me for rides.