Poll: how do you live?

DX'd - Other
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lots of people with sz find it hard to be independent so i wanted to ask-

do you live-

  • on your own
  • in a group home
  • with parents
  • with your own family
  • with a pet
  • in a hospital
  • other
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I don’t know anyone besides my cat who could live with me.

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I am introverted paranoid sz and I like my privacy.

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I live with my wife and son, both of which have been nothing but supportive of me and my recovery

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My fiancee.
She’s a good keeper.
We’re kinda like that “publishers’ representative” and the author in the movie “Stranger than Fiction.”

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I live with my elderly folks - we kind of help each other out - this is my house as well

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It’s good to know that mostly are self-sufficient.

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idk if most people are self sufficient, the poll indicates that just now but i bet there are a lot more people staying with their parents than people let on, i myself was staying with my parents for a very long time and then back and forward to and from sweeps place so i have only really been truly independent for around 2 years with a lot of help from sweep, sweep is very independent but she wouldn’t have coped if it wasn’t for me after we left the hospital and she had nowhere to go all those years ago so we both helped each other become independent despite our mental health problems,

its different for everybody, we all have a different path to tread, i found it easier i think because i had lots of support from my family (even though we did not talk about my problems) and sweep who i could talk to and my care team 'whom i don’t have anymore except for my p/doc. its just different for everyone.

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I live independently but it’s not a high level or even average level existence.

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I share an apartment with my 18 year old sister… the apartment is close to the college she’s going to.

We’ve always been on each others side and take care of one another.

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I said other…I live both independently and with family…I have an apartment above my parents garage now.

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with my husband and daughter (my own family)

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I live with my husband (my family)

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15

I have a babysitting team.

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Where I live is a pretty good solution for a lot of sz’s. I have privacy, but I also have company if I want it.

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Me too.---------

18

When my mother became ill, we were able to hire some people to help out. I lived with her, but couldn’t have done it on my own…Have you talked to anyone in your family about your doubts? I was full of the right antidepressants at the time + now. Do you think you might move closer to your brothers/sisters when your parents are gone? I’ve had a lot of help from mine.

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I live with my mum, I don’t have the skills yet (but am slowly learning) for an independence that wouldn’t wind up with me heading downhill; and mum says she’d rather I live with her and take longer but learn those skills than for me to zoom off and wind up losing any skills learnt and with compromised health.

Take care,
Meg.

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