I’m hoping i get points for having it in the after life
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Yeah, one of them.
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I feel it as a training hard core warriors…
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I agree its the toughest thing I think I could ever deal with that and my other issues …
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Not really.
My cousin’s 18 year old son became paralyzed from the waist down last year from a parachuting accident. My brother took his own life 7 months ago. My Uncle just had a stroke and is in intensive care.
My schizophrenia affliction is pretty small beer by comparison.
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I agree with @Patrick … Sz isnt always as bad as some make it out to be , but if combined with other issues it can be barely bare able…
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I live a good, realized life with sz. Yeah I respond well to meds and I’m proactive with things. Still. My uncle has parkinsons and seeing that develop in a person makes me count my blessings.
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Um. No. You’ll likely have points taken away for lacking perspective.
I now have two terminally ill friends. I wish they had SZ because that means I would still have them as friends next year.
It’s a disease and it’s manageable. Put the energy you expend on complaining about it into recovering from it instead.
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Different people suffer differently to schizophrenia.
It’s worse for some than for others and even those who had it real bad can get better.
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If all you ever do is complain about how awful it is, you will perpetuate it being awful well into the future. Gotta change tracks at some point.
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I honestly dont see it that way–bad things happen in life. Im grateful for whats good and im happy to be in the world.
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Yes it’s one of the worst things that can happen to your mental health, but there are far more other things that are worse.
Watching my blind grandfather die of dementia after they let an infection kill him was not pleasant
Watching my uncle get the all clear cancer wise, only to then have his whole body riddled with it and die very quickly wasn’t pleasant
Hearing about how Covid-19 killed my step sisters mother who had COPD and spent weeks on a ventilator only to have her heart damaged so badly that she could not be treated and died shortly after
Sure SZ is annoying, but at least it’s not the end, and you can still do some things
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I do agree that sz is one of the worst things stigma wise.
People with cancer get all the sympathy of the world. We don’t.
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Everything is advantages and disadvantages
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No…
Schizophrenia is not the worst thing that Can happen to someone.
Going Manic is worse.
I was on Geodon for 20 years and that one made me pseudo manic for 20 years.
Every time I Tried to get off I found that it was impossible.
I quit Geodon cold turkey one month ago.
And what a blessing.
Now I’m calm and schizophrenic.
I like being a paranoid schizophrenic because that it’s so relaxing.
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Hmmm…
Dunno about it being the worst, but it is pretty shiit sometimes.
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Having a disease just plain sucks.
And diseases like cancer cause great suffering and pain.
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Having SZ is no fun but as others have pointed out it could always be worse
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I don’t think that happens, but I’m not about to test that fact or anything 
btw I’m not sure if we are aloud to talk about the afterlife here, maybe you should ask a mod for some advice about that.
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As someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I’m going to have to disagree.
Becoming full blown manic is awful and can be dangerous but it also can be an enlightened experience with euphoria.
I’m sure that living with chronic schizophrenia would be more difficult then becoming manic.
I’m hypomanic now and have been for a couple of days now and I’m feeling mildly euphoric and productive.
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