Poll: Were you ever ambitious?

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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  • I was
  • I still am
  • No never

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I was super ambitious until life and schizophrenia got in the way. Nowadays I’m happy surviving. No more world domination.

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I’m still ambitious,

Still,

I struggle to complete goals.

But I love it when I do and that motivates me to do more.

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I agree. My life is about survival now.

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I still have ambition, but it’s muted.

Came from a really bad place growing up, so the sz was not really too much of a problem once I got proper treatment and the right meds.

It’s more of a set back, but once you can achieve some insight and stability, you can push yourself to do more.

Routine is everything, and ambition is also key for motivation.

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I only developed real ambition after sz hit. I had it as a child too. But idk, I feel like sz woke it up, when I gave up on life bc sz was like a death sentence for me when I came to terms with it.

If anything, it still is. Idk about ambition though, I’d say ambition is just a means of working around obstacles - everyone does that. Especially many users of this forum imo

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I would hurt myself to achieve goals when I was ambitious.

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I used to have too much ambition. I’m not that ambitious anymore. I want to be a motivational speaker.

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Same thing for me, I was the top of my classes in school until I got my 1st psychosis :cry:

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I was ambitious in high school. Got good grades. Couldn’t keep it up later on but that’s life. My IQ hasn’t decreased but my energy and drive have taken a huge blow.

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I was always super ambitious when I was younger and I always reached my goals. But reaching my goals never led to success. Somehow I always failed.

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Massively
Led to many relapses

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I have an energy problem now, too. I was very ambitious with music. I attended Berklee music school. “Call Me Maybe” was something that I wrote for homework one day, but it got stolen. I planned for my band to be huge in Austin, TX. Schizophrenia ruined everything, much worse than anything I that I ever expected. All of my songs were stolen from the copyright office. I hear visions of famous people saying, “ you’re not allowed to be that good.” It really sucks to see visions of shady friends and family members.

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Some could intelligently blame schizophrenia on scientific jealousy.

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I’ve never been particularly ambitious. Whether that could be seen as a negative symptom I wouldn’t like to say.

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In sports as a kid I was very competitive but as far as climbing the ladder in the world not so

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I’ve never been ambitious. Never very competitive either.

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I was never really an ambitious person.

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I’ve lost all confidence in myself and my abilities

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im still ambitious , im just a little more realistic now. gotta work with what i got, but also remind myself to go outside my comfort zone when i can

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I didn’t pick any of them because none of them fit for me.
I was never ambitious, but I’m trying to change that now.
I want to be happy.
I want to be a tattoo artist. I don’t think it is too unrealistic.

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