idk just been thinking that a lot recently
Brightside! I miss your cheerfulness.
It does make things more complicated and the road bumpier. Please don’t let it ruin your life - you have got a lot of life to work with, and I believe you can make something beautiful out of it.
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Thanks, thats really sweet. 
if you let it…it will 
if you work to heal yourself …you will become a wiser person for your struggle 
take care 
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Not completely. You can still rise above it and maybe make a friend or get a volunteer job. You know from reading other posts that people with schizophrenia can work, go to school, live independently, have girlfriends or boyfriends etc. Hey, schizophrenia makes life hard. But it is what it is. You can give up or you can take a bad hand and make something out of it. No one said life would be easy. I mean if you have access to a computer you have something that 60 or 70% of other people in the world don’t have. If you can go in the kitchen and get a nice glass of water anytime you want to than you are better off than millions of other people. If you have a roof over your head and access to medical care than you are living better than the thousands of homeless people here in the U.S. It’s all relative.
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In my experience up to now its the medication lottery. Meaning what side effects are you going to get and then what side effects are you prepared to live with. After that thats the decider. People pride themselves in being high functioning but if my medication gave me some freedom maybe I would be high functioning too.
good one 
take care
I agree with you 100%. i don’t have much but i am very thankful for what i do have.
I agree for the most part. In some ways I feel like sz has actually helped me grow as a person. I had a lot of comforting voices that made me feel way less insecure; but at the end of the day it has destroyed my life. I’ve never been so depressed in my life as I have been since I found out I was sick. I’m sorry I don’t really have any positive words for you because this illness DOES suck and I find myself often wondering how much better my life would be if I hadn’t had developed it.