I want to hear experiences from the forum about their social life post-diagnosis.
What happened to your friends? Did they stick around? Did you have a functioning social life before or after Dx? Have you made connections with people in Mental Health Services you have met?
My social life has improved after getting a diagnosis and finding the right meds.
I’m able t make healthier friendships, and the friends I had before the diagnosis are still around.
I’ve made some friends through mental health services as well, and I find it comforting to have someone in my life who understands my struggles on a personal level
Most of my friends are poets so they embrace a more understanding, when not romantic, view of mental illness. If I’m not careful I’ll be gaining friends over sz. Besides, I’m old, I won’t allow late-onset SZ to re-write my entire life.
I lost all my friends but through the mental health service I gained my best friend. Social life I’m a lot less social then I use to be.
Myne has been pretty good to be fair. I had a lot of good friends when I was young. Yes some people didn’t want to understand when I got a diagnosis, but all the ones that mattered stuck around. I had lots of good times in my early 20’s although most of it included alcohol, but then again I think that it is like that for most people in their early 20’s. If anything I would say I did better than the average person when it come to having a social life. I was always being invited to somewhere.
Social life as SZ? Never heard of that… ALL my friends left me after psychosis, stopped texting and responding
My friends are still around but I lost all desire to spend time with them
My friends never contact me since my diagnosis.
I don’t bother with them as well.
I hanged out with more than 25 friends and had a gf before my SZ. I lost all of them after. I did not connect with ppl in mental health. I was also ain university with very high grades b4 my SZ.
On Abilify I hanged out with 4-5 friends but then on Latuda I lost them. 2 still talk to me online occasionally but we never hangout anymore because I don’t feel comfortable around ppl anymore.
I never had a girlfriend before schizophrenia. I blame social isolation on my father, my mild aspergers, and being super shy and low self confidence.
Me too I had 800 fb friends and hanged out with more than 25 friends. Now I have 150 fb friends and no one talks to me, maybe 1-2 family members tell me happy bday.
My best friend that I knew since I was 11 y.o. until he deleted and blocked me at 21 y.o. He was a cardiologist and his brother, pharmacist, also deleted and blocked me.
I think its bcz my symptoms were so severe that it scared my friends when I was full psychosis writing nonsense on fb.
After my diagnosis I had no social life. But for a few years coming up my diagnosis, my social life was waning anyway.
I just have no desire for a social life.
Another factor is I’m 50. Maybe being a social butterfly is for those in their 20s.
Having a desire for a social life is half the battle.
@anon28145038 I was writing religious and political theories that made no sense on fb. That’s why all my friends left me and I lost 650 fb friend.
I never had proper friends I always felt awkward and have been awkward around social situations my whole life …
Ya. People found out I had schizophrenia and unfriend me. I had like 250 friends and lost like 100 in a short period. I deleted that account and I think hand deleted all the others except my true friends, or so I thought…
I don’t like Facebook. I think its a monitoring project anyways. A database. Probably created by DARPA and CIA.
Yea I have thought disorder without meds, its part of the cognitive symptoms of SZ.
They say I have a thought disorder on meds anyways, despite nobody knowing I’m schizophrenic unless I tell them. Some therapists are just biased and jerks. I can speak normally. I just have weird beliefs and thoughts that I think sometimes are true.
Can someone explain to me what a thought disorder looks like?
“You have a thought disorder because we told you so. You have schizophrenia, which is a thought disorder. You have a thought disorder.”
I also have thought disorder with meds but its less than without meds.