Not everyone has this need. I know healthy, rich, successful and happy ppl that don’t want intimate relationships.
Me I have this need but can’t due to my severe negative and cognitive symptoms.
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Closeness and intimacy can be experienced with good friends too! I mean that for people with schizophrenia who desire a romantic relationship, I wish that their wishes could be met. Should’ve clarified that. I am someone myself who, when I met my partner, did not ever want a relationship, had no friends, was very isolating and shy- and fell in love, and thankfully he did too.
Never doubt the power of love to capture life’s harshest moments and treat them tenderly. When I met my partner I was hallucinating out of control, had no social tact, looked like an absolute wreck and somehow love still blossomed there. It would be more difficult for me today because of the negative symptoms, yes, the problems you mention I have too, but where there is a desire to connect there is a willpower and that force is so strong, stronger than negative symptoms or anything you can imagine…don’t give up hope my friend if it is something you really want!
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I only cried once since I was diagnosed.
Its when my gf left me bcz she said I can’t work, useless and a word in French that meant a looser.
I couldn’t work and pay half her rent while living with her. She told me my home is not your parent’s house where you can always sleep for free. I used to sleep at her house the weekend.
As for friends I lost them all except for 2 that I only talk online. I only get out of my bed to see my psychiatrist, my parents get my meds and my food.
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A “normal” person? Normal is just a setting on the washing machine.
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A normal person as in doesn’t have a mental illness and has a stable home and income.
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I told Mr. Star that I was sz on the third date. He was diagnosed with autism about two years after we were married, but I always knew he was autistic. His first message to me was a paragraph on the history of the letter Q. No neurotypical goes for that as an introduction. We have a kid together, through foster care. He has ADHD. So none of us are neurotypical, but only I have schizophrenia.
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Wow! That was fast! I guess a year to reveal would be too long, eh?! But like @GoldenRex said, all relationships evolve differently and at different paces.
Possible for a girl SZ not possible for a male SZ
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Why do you say that?
Cause them APs make dicks limp that’s why, APs don’t sow up that crack
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Dude, just being with a woman that you see, talk to and can touch would make me happy enough.
One problem, men like women psychoes but women are afraid any disorder on a man. I know many girls love a guy for physical disability, but for mental one? No no
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You don’t have to be financially stable to have a partner. You just have to be present and willing to love. I was engaged to my girlfriend of 3 years, she accepted me for who I was and loved me for me. I was financially unstable and was still willing to take the journey of marriage anyways… unfortunately we were never married because she was diagnosed with breast cancer and lived for a very short period of time once we found out. Also gay marriage wasn’t legal then. But she did show me that material didn’t matter as long as you loved the person.
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I have schizophrenia. My partner doesn’t. However he does have aspergers. We have known each other about four or five years and been together in a relationship over a year.
We met at the mental health team walking group.
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never had a under standing normal relationship ever one I new as normal end up have a mental illness. hopping I well meet one some day.
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Its not the antipsychotics, there is more single SZ men because its ok for a woomen to not have income and be in a relationship because its an extra job for her to raise kids. There is much more homeless SZ men as a result. Reality is much more complicated than this.
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Is this coming from your own experience or? But you do make a point about women with schizophrenia.
Guys I understand, women dig money, maybe if your dick works, have disability income in Canada and drive new BMW of that, also take apiprazole then maybe you have a chance
At the time, I was actively dealing with symptoms. I needed to explain why I sometimes reacted to sounds that he couldn’t hear. Besides that, I have always been fairly open with my disability. I believe that, as a nonthreatening and pretty socially gifted person, I have a duty to present a positive face of schizophrenia to the world. It helps bust stigma.
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@Aziz I agree with you here.
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