just wondering how people live,
do you live…
- with parents
- independently
- with your wife and children
- in supported housing
- homeless
- in a student flat/campus
- other
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be cool if you could say something about it 
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What do you mean by supported housing?
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its like a group home with a nurse present or available i think, i was offered one once, you need to keep it clean etc, like i think its mostly shared except the bedrooms.
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I live independently though reckoned to have “limited ability to live independently in the community”. I live a fairly low level life- never employed, no friends,very isolated. Cope with finances best of all but struggle with keeping flat clean and tidy, hygiene, healthy living.
Wow, I didn’t realize that many people lived with their parents. That’s interesting.
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I lived with my mother and father then my just my father when she separated from him until I was 24. Then after spell as in patient lived independently(albeit with older partner) when I was 26.
I wonder whether those still living with parents are still quite young.
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i was staying with my parents for a long time and then going between parents and my friends house until i finally managed to get my own place about 3 years ago at 30yrs old,
i managed well but was made homeless after a year so was moved into temporary accomodation for a year and a half and then i got an offer of housing at around chrstmas (my friend got an offer at this time as well) so we were both really happy,
so i moved into my new place at the start of febuary this year and its been going well, its near shops and cafe’s, eateries, also i like walking the trail at the back of me and i can walk to the gym as well.
having trouble with the bins though and house work is always difficult.
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I used to jump between living independently and being homeless. Now I live with my boyfriend. He pays for the house and food, and I make just enough to pay for my car and medical bills independently. That way I don’t feel totally helpless, even though I would be living in my car again if it wasn’t for him.
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I live with my mum, I’m not well enough to keep myself safe, and I’m rubbish with the upkeep of the house, age wise I’m 17/18 getting ready to be independent even though I’m 22, my psychosis has caused me to have an age development stop as that’s when I became unwell properly.
So Im learning to take steps on my own, I went to my gp on my own last week, it took a lot of guts as I haven’t seen him since before hospital and I was incredibly embarressed about the weight I’d gained due to olanzapine, I know it took five years, however I did it. But he was lovely and took me seriously, I was so nervous about it I barely slept for four days.
Little steps…
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Over the past 12 years, I have moved “up” from being in locked wards to board-and-care homes to shared accommodations (while at school) to fully independent living. I am not “well” or “fully recovered.” But I am medicinally stabilized and hugely improved owing in immense part to psychoeducation, very limited hands-on psychotherapy, continued involvement in several 12 Step programs, light-handed meditation practice, and (most vitally) continuing use of high-quality, psychotherapeutic workbooks using CBT, DBT, ACT, MBBT, MBSR and MBCT for anxiety, mania, anger and PTSD. (I’ve done about 20 so far.)
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I was homeless for a bit. I also ended up in a group home. Then section 8 housing… Now I’m somewhat on my own.
For now I live with my Sister. I’d like to consider myself fairly independent. But I do live with a family member.
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I live with my parents They don’t make me pay rent, but do give them money when they need it and I have it. Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to live on my own, but then I get frightened thinking of all the things that could go wrong and I wouldn’t have an idea how to handle it. Sometimes though I feel like a moocher, I guess from watching shows like Dr. Phil where he tells parents to kick kids out at age 18… I’d hate to have grown up in his home with Schizophrenia on top of it.
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Im technically living by myself but my ma helps so much that if it wasn’t for her …well I don’t know where id be.
When my first symptoms surfaced I tryed suicide and my ma had to deal with my pop’s mental instability along with seeing other family members with the same problem so she really understood.
I didn’t see her for a few years when I spent some time on the streets as a drug addict and when I did see her she saw the slash marks on my wrists and that was a turning point for both of us.
She’s a devout Christian suicide is the worst possible thing in her book.
I thank God for her .
She’s the only person that really understands me everywhere I go im shunned because I act weird due to my mental state.
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When I first got sick, I was living with my partner. Then we moved in with my parents and brother. I had my first hospitalization. After a few years there with a lot of instability we moved in with my in-laws. They cook for the most part with my partner’s help. I clean and do laundry with help. I take care of their dog and my lizards. I think Kay and I are ready to move out on our own.
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its funny because as the poll is just now it seems that there are more people living independently than i thought so how about this for the others-
- want to live independently
- don’t want to live independently
- don’t care
- other
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Living with husband and kids. Atm I don’t care if I would be alone or with them. But if things changed and I’d be all alone I’d prop miss them. It’s hard to imagine how life would be in another way.
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I live alone with friends…there is no road to handle me, there is no sea to hold me down, in my summers breeze.
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I think living independently can be hard if it means you are on your own and socially isolated. Also having to make decisions re the acts of daily living can be stressful.
I know I have been more anxious about day to day things since my wife got ill and then died.
It was so much easier when she was the dominant partner and main decision maker.
I sometimes wonder about shared accommodation like a group home but (a) It would mean being with people who are comparatively more ill and (b) I would worry about things like internet access.
On the other hand independent living for some is the passport to more autonomy and freedom .
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I live with my parents in their home.
Tolteca.
I live with my wife and my son. I wouldn’t say independently though. With my brain, I need support lol.
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