I have my sister, mom, dad, stepdad, stepmom, and my fiancée. And sometimes I don’t even trust them. Did schizophrenia do a number on your social life?
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Yes, I deleted my facebook account and lost contact with most of my old friends.
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Yea its obvious. I still have friends but we rarely hangout bcz of my negative symptoms. When I rarely have energy I let them pick me up. A few days ago they wanted to pick me up but I refused.
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I have little desire for a robust social life anyway though.
For me, it’s because of my positives.
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Why’s that?
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I just don’t. I have one friend who calls me and I can’t wait to get off the phone with her when she calls.
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I mainly just have my family and one close friend. He gets me out of the house a couple times a week for the gym or the movies. Other than that I don’t socialize too much. Not interested in finding a significant other since I am still going through a divorce. The marriage fell apart due to the insane amount of stress put on me to take care of her 2 kids 3 dogs and her as in the last year I was forced to be the only income. But in her mind it ended because of my illness and her inability to handle it. So no romance for quite some time. I’m finally focusing on myself.
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Yea, a lot of the time, even if I’m with the aforementioned people, I’m not enjoying myself.
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Good for you for taking care of yourself! And for keeping up that friendship!
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Thank you man! The even better part is my buddy knows about my illness and never bats an eye. 
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I wish I had that kind of acceptance sometimes.
I’ve abandoned old friends and they’ve abandoned me.
No real desire to socialize with extended family members.
I’m divorced and have no desire to pursue romantic relationships.
Yes schizophrenia destroyed my social life.
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I guess you could count me as a friend or a connection, because I feel the same way.
i love them and “leave them.” when i am alone i like to be suspicious of everyone. a reflection of my own inadequacies i bet.
judy
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I didn’t really have much of a social life left to wreck by the time SZ hit me. Substance abuse had finished that off for me.
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well, Rona did. plus they’ve changed things online
on finding out about finding free events.
I have no social life, except online, and that’s not really satisfying because it doesn’t involve 1 on 1 quality time spent wherever (coffee shop, etc). 
There’s a kind of disconnected feeling with online friendships.
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On my meds there’s no social appetite for anything among many other things. Off meds is worse. Never been a social person anyways.
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Yeah. I don’t know. Yeah.