Schizophrenia and unemployment?

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Research in europe and US show that around 80% of schizophrenics dont work but without consideration of percentage in developing countries

What do you think is the real percentage of unemployed schizophrenics world-wide?

  • 90%
  • 80%
  • 70%
  • 60%

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Also I want to know why most schizophrenics here have problems being in work force

If you are medicated and have problem in sustaining a job what do you think is the underlying reason?

  • Negative symptoms
  • Positive symptoms
  • Both neg and pos symptoms
  • Other reason(please mention in your reply)

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I still hear voices that get worse under stress. Moreover, I get very easily stressed because of noises and the presence of people I don’t connect with.

Still I’m expecting to work a bit in the future, but I highly doubt it will be full time.

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You’ll get there. I see you doing all of the right things.

:hugs:

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I Appreciate your responce

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80%?!! Wow. What am I doing working. I can hardly function mentally. I just don’t want to lose my apartment.

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Negative symptoms and cognitive deficits. Poor interpersonal skills.

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Yeah me too bad cognition. Not able to talk due to impairments medication and corruption. Maybe it what you call alogia

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I believe it is all three symptoms preventing Schizophrenics from working; positives, negatives and cognitives.

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I worked a lot in my life years ago. It always led to worsening of symptoms, so I am now in full time recovery.

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It may be that I’m not good at following instructions.

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Severe social anxiety. The effects of bullying related trauma. Falling between two stools. Left- not up to coping with the stress of a highly pressurised -high intellect job Right- Lacking the ability to do manual work to an acceptable standard.

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I’ve been able to work since the age of 16. I worked all sorts of jobs. The one I liked the most was an office job. Even though I was stressed and tired by the end of the day, it was manageable. Now I don’t work full time due to raising children, but when my children are old enough, I will go back to the work force. For now, I do alot of little side jobs as added income. Working from home has gotten easier since COVID times. There are more opportunities to work from home than there used to be. My husband works, as well. So we are doing alright for the most part.

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Ive tried working as a delivery driver and janitor. Neither worked out. I had to quit both. Negative symptoms mostly. I just did not care about doing a good job. Positive symptoms while delivery driving. Just cant seem to find anything.

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I’m 50
Diagnosed age 18 on stelazine worked full time for ten years
Age 28 started new antipsychotics and since then because of breakthrough paranoia and voices and anxiety haven’t been able to work tried numerous times thought I’d return to work one day when I was young but I have only got worse

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I just applied to work at a greenhouse. Otherwise, I can’t find anything I think I’d like that is low-stress. I realize there’s no such thing as the perfect job, but I’d like to find one I can tolerate.

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