My nurse is always telling me I should do some activities with other people to socialize. I don’t wanna do it because everywhere I go I am the strange one, everywhere I go there are people laughing at me. I told her but she insists and her insistence makes me feel so unconfortable. But I don’t mind because I’ll do what I want to do. I have had many problems with other people all my life, because people don’t accept me and I don’t want to have problems again.
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My nurse did the same, it started with my emergency contact info. I have none and she started going on and on about it and I should be out there making friends. I have never been good in long term relationships of any sort so I gave up.
I had a online gf, but she went back to drinking and off meds, she is a lot to handle off meds and a mean drunk, so had to give that up.
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If I’d live again the same situations that I have lived with people in the past, that would kill me.
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Yeah I have some nasty so called friends, last one’s son started riping me off, so got rid of them, Plus I’m odd so most don’t want anything to do with me
I have had people tell me over and over to make friends. I asked them Wtf was I supposed to do, stand on the street with a sign saying Please be my friend?
It isn’t easy and even if you do make acquaintances the long lasting friendships get made in teen and early 20s. I’m long past that
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My mother in law says that too and I can’t explain to her how hard it is to be around people. She’s super extrovert
Being around one person (like my husband) helps a bit though but I can’t take a crowd.
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My therapist, family and Case Manager want me to socialize more.
My Case Manager wants me to go to a Clubhouse, but I really don’t want to go.
I really don’t have the desire to want any friends.
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I had friendships but they suspiciously went away just before my diagnosis. Being psychotic for almost a year basically ruined all of my connections with people.
I have moved on now, I really am not that bothered but my mother wants me to go out with the girl down the cafe on the beach, but I really don’t want too. It stresses me out when I get teased about it because to be honest, I don’t find it funny that I do not have any friends. Just a fact.
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i know how you feel @Katherine85, hope things improve for you soon
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I think my depot nurse would like me to socialise more but she hasn’t pressed me,especially since saying I’m quite asocial. If I’m put in a social situation I’ll be agreeable and polite but I make little effort to socialise with others.
I think quite a lot of that lack of effort is down to difficulty with knowing how to socially interact with others and years of being a social reject.
I did a try a group a few weeks ago. I struggled to connect with the other people and felt very much like the odd one out. That’s par for the course with me in social settings.
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I know how you feel. I always feel like the odd one out of the group so i just avoid group interactions as much as possible. Even family gatherings can be too much for me. I have like one friend that i go out with for coffee like once a month. That’s not too bad since i’ve known him over twenty years now and he knows me pretty well, but that’s about the extent of my social life.
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I’ve had the doctor tell me to make friends. I don’t think it’s fair to try and get you to do that with schiz. It also hard to feel good and make bonds with people with this illness. I agree with zombie about it not being easy even if you decide to. You could need to be around a bunch of people on a regular basis for a long period of time. If you don’t work like 40 hours a week that can be difficult. Clubhouse tend to have low functioning people that smoke all the time. Lots of them don’t have cars and any money either. So it would be hard to do anything with them.
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I agree.
Don’t think a Clubhouse would be for me.
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My pdoc always says that I should socialize. Talk about soccer, news, politics, anything that will distract me. But it’s not easy in my village where there are few elders and no young people
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Notice that,most people know the schizophrenia and the personal behaviors of the person with sz through TV and other media ,which give a deviant picture to the person with sz
Therefore,the people will deal with your personality blindly through the deviant picture that they know from media,the problem is not in the people response toward you- but in the information that they have from the media about who are you through false prior ideas
Look to the effect of words “schizophrenia/schizophrenic” on the minds of general public
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