Poll: Were you ever ambitious?

DX'd - Sz/SzA
21

They’ll have to kill me to stop me lmao

I refuse to give in there’s one life I ain’t gonna waste it

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22

Not really. I take whatever job I can get. That means I usually take jobs that I don’t need a lot of education for and no experience needed.

I go to college and I want good grades of course but I’m not going to cry over the occasional F or C.

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23

I used to be really ambitious but once I got sick I could do less and less until eventually I had to accept that I had to take it easy.

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24

I’m boundlessly ambitious. I dream of power, wealth, ideal love, changing the world, living forever, etc… I think I’m a bit of a narcissist.

-Albert.

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25

When I was little things came easy to me, and I wanted to conquer the world. Now, not so much.

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26

I will love you whether you are amitious or not. It is a trait and we can’t all be ambitious, especially with sz. I spend part of my time helping people who are not able to be effective, like me.

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27

When I was an intern architect I was very ambitious but unfortunately once I was prodromal I couldn’t handle the pressure and became full blown psychotic…tried to return a few times back to my old firm designing homes but couldn’t use my graphics anymore because I couldn’t control my hands like I used to before…

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28

We have some great hands to help us.

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29

Pre Schizophrenia- Some day I’ll:

  1. Become a Meteorologist
  2. Walk the Appalachian Trail
  3. Have a family when I’m settled
    Now:
  4. Stay out of the Psych Ward
  5. Not be a menace to society
  6. Stay off porn
  7. Stay below 400 pounds
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30

I was full of ambition and hope, but with Sz doors slowly starting closing, I became all work and no play, and blew a gasket.

The result now is despair because I know I’ll never be able to work as hard as I did back then, and didn’t get rewards for doing so. Miracles though are that I passed college and had an 8 year career spanning the ‘naughts’(sp).

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31

Between 2008-2010 only 2 years in my life. I think it was because I was going to school, working, and had 1 monster a day. The caffeine gave me a boost and focus. Other than that no. I did and do nothing with my life. It’s sad. Schizophrenia made is 100x-1000x worse. Even doctors don’t understand. I come off as lazy. I can drink 10 monsters a day and still do nothing. Adderall would just make me more schizophrenic.

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32

I achieved a 3.9 GPA at community college and stellar extracurricular activities. I did well given I was isolated my whole life, didn’t have friends, and probably have Asperger’s Syndrome. I have no motivation, drive, energy, or focus without energy drinks. Makes me think I’m like low energy or something…

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33

I was an engineering student

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34

i had big dreams but didn’t do the work to get there because i couldn’t due to my sz.

now i am approaching 63 years old and am trying to convince myself that i still have some kind of future and to make the best of it.

judy

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