i think we are really blessed if we remain symptom free for long periods of time, the longer the better,
so what about you? are you symptom free-
I wish I was, I wish I was
im symptom free since 2010
I was able to tolerate the few symptoms I had in the background for about a year, but recently stress has led to them returning.
Thats the dream…
idk what i am, i said 80%+
so maybe about 85%
i cant be 100% bc that is practically cured isnt it?
I am 90% symptom free.
In my case I have not had positive symptoms since four or five years; but I have negative symptoms like avolition, low motivation, anhedonia, etc.
Tolteca.
I would say 80%. It sucks.
I think the episode of psychosis I was having is over now because I’ve felt pretty normal again today.
As normal as I get anyways!! Pahaha
I cant look at/hear a person without hallucinating. Voices are pretty much gone though.
The voices are still there but thanks to the meds I can just brush them off like they never were there to begin with.
My meds make me numb to my emotions…and I like it.
I am on disability and they review me and ask me has my condition improved, worsened, stayed the same.
My symptoms worsen when I get under stress.
If I were symptom free how would I still get disability?
Probably depends. I don’t think they’d pull the rug out from under you.
Best to just be honest. If you are symptom free then there is no reason you can’t get a job of some kind. I’d get started part time to get used to the stress levels. Then work your way up to full time. Report it all and they take you off disability after 7 months. By then you should be earning more than disability got you.
Just save what you can. They’ll never take that from you.
Yeah I gues if I was symptom free I should try to work again but I am far from bieng symptom free.
I thought I was recovering and able to put all my schizophrenic symptoms away with my reasoning.
I thought I would be able to work again.
Then bam a stressfull situation happened and I was headed for the hospital again but stayed out because an increase in my medication.
Now I dont think I will ever get to that level of recovering again.
Gotta have hope man. You’ve gotten there before. It’s just a battle though. The symptoms present themselves as real. The longer they are there the more they just seem like a fact of life.
I’m lucky to get 5 minutes without symptoms unless I’m alone. Really paints the picture that they’re all telepaths. It’s ■■■■■■. I can only endure it for so long.
You build resilience to it though. Or at least I have. I just don’t have any interest in anything other than getting over this ■■■■and I’m totally frustrated that I’ve had to go through this. That keeps it alive as well.
New stage new tactics.
I think it was rogueone who said…
“If it’s sz you’ll never think your way out of it”
Well I’m going to challenge that.
In time it should get easier. Every stressful situation is a time to expand your ability to cope.
However I’m not going to my buddy’s wedding. I refuse to spend time with the Christian side of my family.
I don’t like thinking those “righteous” ■■■■■should get away with saying this stuff to me. Even if it’s not real. The experience of it is enough to drive me away.
I swear my grandma was just pausing to figure out her next message. I’m getting hard to criticize.
Still though they took all that was me before I went sz and mutilated my mind. Now they try and drill it all into my head.
Or at least that’s how it seems.
I don’t know man the sz is ■■■■■■.
I’m about to get my own place hopefully. I’m just going to go in there and forget about everyone else aside from the people I feel like talking to. Mostly that’s just you guys.
Im pretty close though to whatever the â– â– â– â– im supposed to be becoming from this self generated mind â– â– â– â– .
Ahhahahhahhahbhhhhh â– â– â– â– sz.
When I thought I was recovering I thought I would have a marriage, children, job.
Now as long as I enjoy my hobbies and am not to agitated about the things I have to do I am ok.
Yeah. I could use some hobbies. Chatting with you guys is about all I got.
my dreams of doing leathercraft kind of just dwindled until I just couldn’t see myself doing it. I have music and art class. it’s better than nothing. I just ran out of cigarettes and I’m chewing gum the rest of the night. I have money but I will not trade cigs for food, so by thursday on my birthday I won’t need them.
I answered 50-80%. I don’t know how symptomatic I am. I hear voices daily. I have little paranoia. But nothing I can’t handle right now. Anhedonia, memory loss, waking up too early, insomnia, tiredness. Maybe I answered wrong.