For me I was barred from joining the military
What about you?
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Apply to college.
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Finishing college
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Finishing high school/getting better in badminton.
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Psychosis at work - career ending.
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Forming normal relationships with relationship partners. I suffered from parnaoia and later erotomania. It was very confusing and set me back some years for sure.
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I had to break up my band. Then after a year or two I tried it again. Couldn’t handle it, I needed to quit cause I was such a mess. Was a full time patient for years.
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I had just taken the test to be a California highway maintenance worker when I was 19 and I became psychotic shortly afterwards. I didn’t do good enough to get that job but if I wouldn’t have got psychotic the state would have hired me in to pick fruit during the California Mediterranean fruit fly crisis in 1980. All the fruit had to be picked off all the fruit trees and I would have probably made $8.00 an hour. Considering all my prior jobs had been minimum wage jobs ate $2.65 an hour, $8.00 an hour would have seemed like a fortune.
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Becoming a physician. I was in med school at the time of my first psychotic break. It crushed me to have my dream snatched away from me like that.
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It has stopped me from becoming a doctor. It is a hard loss.
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I was too paranoid and sleep deprived to focus on work.
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Same here. It ended my career.
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@everhopeful Still coping with this. But its prioritized. Need my symptoms managed and then get to that later.
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Couldn’t take bullsh!t at work. Then memory and concentration problems. Don’t think I could learn much, now. I did have another good job opportunity. One of them, I went all the way there, to another state. People harassing me, made me chicken out. I didn’t think I could handle the first month being homeless and working with not much money. Then the second time I was physically ill from anxiety and turned it down. Probably should have taken it.
Enjoying my twenties.
I got diagnosed and medicated at 21, and was sedated as well as in and out of hospitals most of my twenties.
I had no mental capacity to practice hygiene, take care of my body or myself, make friends, have conversations, or enjoy anything.
I feel I’ve lost 8 years of my life to absolutely nothing. I was just a smelly potato with hair.
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i think my cognitive abilities and my ability to handle stress….(causing psychosis)
everything stems from those 2
work uni family of my own (happy not to but better chance i’d have got my life in a mess by breeding otherwise)
partying staying up late socialising friendships
biggest thing it prevented?
becoming a drug addict or certainly alcoholic in my teens because life got crazy enough early enough and i needed to stop the path i was on
very grateful for that though it took mental hospital and a rehab for addictive personality
From getting back primary custody of my two oldest kids. I still get them part time, but i lost my court battle 3 times trying to get back primary.
Going to college and getting a job. Being independent.
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It took it all from me, i am sick since a child, which is almost as a curse… But maybe, the hardest thing, was not to be able to feel love… I was getting only criticism with this, anger on me from the others, misunderstandings too, i was blaming myself till death around that… So i was alone in my sz, very alone 
…
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Nothing. I was destined to be psychotic. It was not a choice.
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