For the most part they don’t I’ve been on nearly all the Atypical AP’s and some typical, and getting a little relief with the Rexulti I’m on now is the best it’s been.
@IndustrialLad I would be your friend.
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Sure, thanks. I don’t want to be antisocial, but it’s past midnight where I live so I really should be going to bed. Perhaps I’ll see you around the forums.
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Sounds good. Take care, goodnight.
I always thought of myself as high functioning but with this I am medium.
What state do you live in? I am curious about your living circumstances. I don’t see anything in my area (WA State) like what you have. May I ask how much they charge you to live there? I would go for something like that if it were available around here.
They charged 1/3 of my income for rent. With my SSDI and my income I believe the rent (I can’t remember the exact amount) was between $700-$750. I just got an offer about a month ago for a similar housing situation. I passed but I may have a chance for it in the future.
Oh. I see. Ya, I am on the list for Public and Subsidized housing here and they charge 1/3 as well but I have to buy my own food, pay for cable, phone etc. It’s my own apartment. Rent pays for rent, electric and water. I have to pay for everything else. I have been on the list for over 2 years.
Medium-high. I work but don’t see people more than I have to.
I fluctuate between medium and medium-low. I stay at home for now and go out for errands (shopping and bills mostly), and I live with my mom who takes care of half the chores while I do the rest. I’ll have a friend over every few weeks for 2-4 hours at most then I get tired/anxious and call it a day. I try to text/call someone at least a couple of times per week.
I go to school and have always got good grades, but for the past 2-3weeks I’ve barely gone to any lessons, or maintained any meaningful relationships with my “friends”.
Therefore I would say less than a month ago I was very high functioning, but now I’m medium-low
i dont have a job and im pretty much unemployable
living with mom of course although im 35 
however ive recently started seeing people on a semi-regular basis and most of the time i can handle it
but i dont really connect with those guys so its like im still alone
low functioning i would say
i dont think thats permanent though
im making some progress you ppl wouldnt believe how bad it was
i could barely speak
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medium functioning here. I don’t have a job at the moment, but I do leave the house for walks every day
Low-medium functioning. Don’t have a job but kinda have a friend.
I run a software company. I’m not going to put the link to the website here because I’m afraid it’ll pop up in Google. I’m going to start advertising next week or the week after, depending on how things go. Hopefully next week. I’m just now setting up the PayPal system to accept credit card payments. It can take three days for that to get processed. I’m scared as hell. I spent six years on this software and, if it doesn’t sell . . . disheartening is not the word for it.
I also get out regularly, but only to the grocery store and similar places. Sometimes social settings, but I haven’t found a place where I feel I fit in yet.
If the program doesn’t sell, I’ll finish school and get a day job. Just three classes to go. Not being able to choose my own hours and an office environment would be more stressful, but I can probably adapt. This illness is not beatable, but it’s not a sentence to an unacceptable life either. It just feels that way sometimes.
Staying on the medicine is a good start, but it’s not the overall solution. I was lucky. I had a good doctor – I’ve seen what bad doctors are like since he retired. And my father is a psychologist, so I had a very supportive home environment. Yeah, I deserve some of the credit, but I recognize that they played a large role too.
If I can do it, you can too. My advice is to start seeing the silver linings. If you can’t formulate positive logic, if you can’t snap out of “I might as well be dead,” there’s no hope.
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I put medium. I go to work every day, but most weekends I don’t go anywhere. During the work week, I often want/need to run an errand or two but I can’t and have to go straight home because I’m exhausted and can’t smile at or talk to another person…
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I am low functioning very low.
As well I have a problem in Israel specifically to meet people,
if I were in another country I would have friends.
I hope to leave as soon as I get a little better.
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Based on that criteria, I would be low-functioning but in actuality I would likely be intermediate or even high functioning (compared to treatment-refractory sz in supervized living situations).
so true
we all were comparing ourselves to normies
i dont say we shoudnt just noticing
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Just thought I’d share this article says only 15 percent of sz work.but 70 desire work
So as of now we are at about 27 percent working looks like we represent the more active side a bit