Only 10% to 15% of US schizophrenics are in the workforce

Is it due to:

  1. the jobs available to us suck
  2. Schizophrenia is that terrible of a disease
  3. a lot of schizophrenics working are too busy to bother getting their illness treated
    (I was going to make a poll but it was too difficult.
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I have found that as a schizophrenic you have to custom build your own job take on only what you can for the day

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I don’t seem to have any problem studying fortunately.

Personally I fall apart when I have to juggle work tasks with confusing social situations. I hope I can find a low-key job with minimal drama.

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What kind of job are you expecting since schizophrenics have a detrimental health condition? It’s not like a schizophrenic can be a CEO of a company, a politician in government or a surgeon at a hospital. Not to mention that schizophrenics represent 1% of the population of a country which is a small number. 10% to 15% of 1% is even a smaller number.

I say be content with the job you have because your situation could be a lot more worse.

the discrimination is real!

Guy at bar told my friend yesterday “anyone who has psychosis can never work again in their life” He was a business owner too my friend said

+1 for discrimination

As well as other factors too

I have an easy and flexible remote job but there are days when I’m like %$#@ this, I can’t do this.

CRIES

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These stats make me not want kids, horrible disease even though I’m one of the lucky ones.

Why not? I’m more functional than some of the CEOs I’ve worked under.

You don’t need a brain for that, just looks or the right connections.

Maybe I could have if I had gotten things sorted early enough.

That sounds boring. I’m going to keep doing upgrading courses and steal another promotion out from under some neurotypicals when they aren’t expecting it.

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Give a healthy working person antipsychotica and see if they continue to work. Antipsychotica are tranquilizers.

@shutterbug You may think you can be a CEO which is a lot different than being a CEO. Connections is only a part of operating a business. Funding, customers, suppliers and hiring staff need to be taken into account when owning a business. Upgrading your certificates is not the way to operate a business. One needs to assign, delegate and order employees their job duties.

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Maybe you don’t feel like you can be a CEO, but you don’t know what other people’s limits and possibilities are, including @shutterbug’s. How do you know what he’s capable of? How do you know what he does with his job right now? And being a CEO means different things in different companies and industries. It’s possible that @shutterbug is already doing a job where the skills set transfers over to what you think a CEO does.

And furthering education is always helpful, no matter what field you’re in.

There’s no reason not to dream big and chase after those dreams just because you have sz/sza. I’m sorry you feel you have to.

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Be real here. There are no schizophrenic CEOs for any small, medium or large firm. I don’t have the statistics to prove my claim but schizophrenia is not a business asset. Schizophrenia is a liability.

I’m a senior insurance broker. I train and delegate work to the junior brokers. My work is high pressure and comes with a high cognitive load. It is acknowledged that I perform at a high level. I have the evaluations to prove it.

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You have no proof of this.

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Again, maybe for you. Some of us are working our butts off and not giving in to be exactly the opposite of this.

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And what kind of firm? Again – proof.

I went to law school. I quit because I didn’t want to be a lawyer. It just wasn’t for me. If I really wanted to, I would have found a way to do it.

I also got into one of the best MBA programs in the country, but for the same reason, I turned them down.

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There is exceptions where schizophrenics can be geniuses but maybe they are just 1% of schizophrenics. I think 2 users here who don’t post anymore said they were Drs, well one is a Dr while the other is doing a speciality in neurology. Also lookup John Nash and Elyn Saks. John Nash has a nobel prize while Elyn Saks is a psychiatrist and I think director of a big hospital, also a writer.

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But I agree that 10-15% only work. 85% are unemployed. Thats what I read from many sources online. Also that 80% of schizophrenics are smokers.

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