I have a few tips for people with severe schizophrenia,
severe and even very severe:
take a therapeutic dose of antipsychotic medications.
You will have a lot of big, big crises.
The key is to just get over them.
If you have a crisis the key is to ride it out and it will get better.
Even if you suffer from repeated crises you should keep going this way.
Have very low expectations from life, let go of your ambitions.
Don’t expect to work or volunteer or have friends or marry.
The key should be just surviving.
It is easier to survive that way.
@everhopeful I am getting on a full(therapeutic) dose of the medication olanzapine. @Wave the severity of your schizophrenia is for you to decide.
If you say it’s severe, it’s severe.
Dude, from my experience most ppl on here don’t have cognitive problems like u. I dont even know how to judge u, cuz i’m not sure how debilitated u are. U said u r most ill on here yesterday, yet u say u r happy. I will never say i am happy, ever, despite being a positive person. Maybe if i didnt have to do ■■■■ whilst having avolition, but just taking care of myself with sz is enough to keep me not happy. I’m not gonna compare apples and oranges cuz i dont have cognitive problems
I was told years ago that part of coping with your illness was accepting the level you’re at.
That seemed to me to be shorthand,along with the fact I wasn’t getting much support, for we don’t intend to do much for you .
Certainly in the beginning of your journey of mental illness. Over the years though ,unless you get the help and support to facilitate a good measure of recovery, you can become world weary as to the possibility of recovery.
If you let go of your ego it could lead to success!! I fantasize of a day I’m being interviewed and asked “so what do you attain as the reason for your success”. And I say “letting go of my ego has allowed me to achieve truly…”