Poll: How would you rate your quality of life?

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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3 my life is in shambles

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7/10

Still have a good life but at a transition point
Whether or not I can really be independent.

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I said a 10. Very high.

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I said 6. My mind is alright but I have a bad memory so I forget the good day I had and have to make the next day good as well. Like 50 first dates. :frowning:

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I said 7. I like my life. It allows me to do things I want to do and itā€™s rewarding in itā€™s own right. Yeah it could be better but whilst my parents are alive the cat and I have a great existence! Unless I find that sugar Mama I donā€™t see any radical changes soon and meds wise I do well on zyprexa and effexor.

Iā€™d like to sleep less with better targetting meds but Iā€™ve tried a few!

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5 because I have been making good small steps forward over the last 4 years. I have been able to reduce some medicine. Swap one for a better, begin to socialise again. Enjoy something again.

Get back to living independently again. Get back everything I lost. And I plan to continue moving forward.

I hope towards the end of next year I can enter a work program and do maybe just a shift a week. This would put me at a 6.

Iā€™d hate to loose everything again. I am very greatful because I lost everything due to this illness. Now I have some comforts again and my family around me. Life could be so much worse.

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I think maslows theory of heiracy needs would come into this answer. We all have different wants in our lives to make us happy and achieve that top of the pyramid.

At the bottom is food and shelter. Thatā€™s a 1. But as you go up it becomes higher.

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I have a blessed life and work towards more self Independence.

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The problem i had with this question is even if i was rich or famous i still would know i was in hell

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Sometimes 0, sometimes 10.

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Very high right now I gave myself a 10. I have everything I could I could ever want really and am incredibly stable mentally and emotionally, and finally have a way to combat my narcolepsy and a diagnosis for it. Stuff is great currently. Could I think of things that could make it better? Sure but I really canā€™t complain with how things are currently.

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I would say 7 but in reality I havenā€™t even stepped on 1. I mean quality is subjective. If I look at the quality of my life in the perception that I donā€™t have quantity of life, it will seem like a low quality.

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I put a 3, my life is not terrible, but in some ways yes it is. I struggle with persistent negative and congitive symptoms which make it hard for me to enjoy anything. I donā€™t have hobbies, i donā€™t have divergent thoughts, i donā€™t get things done. can you imagine a life without creativity pleasure and emotion? that is my life.

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Were you creative before sz?

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I was motivated, I enjoyed good music, good hobbies, and had many interests. After Sz all that came grinding to a halt as the antipsychotics strangled my personality and individuality. But Iā€™m lowering the doses now, maybe the damage has already been done.

What time is it where youā€™re living? Its 2:30 am here and i ought to be going to sleep.

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Iā€™m happy to hear that, @Kimi_Kihara. You Japanese by any chance? :thinking:

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I voted 4ā€¦I live in poverty and canā€™t afford to do anything.

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  1. Iā€™m blessed in many ways but I have crippling anxiety. Working on it! :slight_smile:
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I voted 3 more because of my physical illness. I canā€™t walk far because of my breathing, then heart so it isolates me even more. But I still text people and they visit and I can get online and watch TV. I deal with chronic anxiety too.

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