Anyone else just feeling plain sick and tired of being schizophrenic? I am going through a little slump right now. I’m tired of being anxious. I’m tired of feeling weird. I’m tired of not being interested in anything. I just hate it. I ■■■■■■ hate it.
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Yes. I recently skipped a day of medication, and I got clear as a bell that day…but I know it doesen’t pan out in the long run, plus terrible insomnia when I miss my zyprexa. Trapped between the disease and the medications.
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I’m also tired, mostly tired of being with the negative symptoms, every day at night I have trouble sleeping because of this, there are negative thoughts in my head because I’m incapacitated
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I’m tired because I’m slowly becoming a caregiver for an elderly relative. This elderly relative never lifted a finger to help me when I needed it. It’s all pretty demoralising.
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Yeah. Going off meds sounds tempting but I know I’ll end up dead or in the hospital again. I miss feeling “normal”. My brain just feels so cloudy all the time now
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Negative symptoms are so bad. I get them as well. My sleeping has been better since I started waking up earlier. But I have just about every negative symptom there is
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Being a caregiver is never easy.
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I know what you mean. It’s like I have a behavioral delay on medications. Like at work I’m always too late to look the customers in the eye after serving them. The day I skipped meds I was back in the game, everything went smooth. But I tried quitting meds before and I have ended up in the hospital unless I have managed to get myself back on drugs first.
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my psychologist even warns me that I keep repeating the same complaint to her sometimes, I blame the negative symptoms a lot for that
Yeah - I’m tired of SZ too. But I’m doing better the last 6 months and plateaued, managing symptoms much better but. Not sure if it gets better than this. Just a lot of work - Self care I don’t care. If this is the best I don’t know what to do. Cause that would mean med cx.
I think it has to - like I can’t keep avoiding people/isolating. A goal to look forward to.
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I wonder the same thing. Is this as good as it gets? Because if so then that really sucks. I just recently quit drinking because it was making me paranoid every time I got drunk. So that’s been nice. But I really don’t feel better. I’m still tired of everything.
And being around people is hard. I go to the convenience store and kinda stare at people. I’m always nice to the clerks and ask how they are. I like the ones that give an honest answer.
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No pun on the drinking. Maybe cause you mentioned it. But maybe we just take this one day at a time. Cause the thought of how do we keep doing this and progress is so overwhelming and adds to our anxiety.
I have reduced my interaction in public to a bare minimum. I don’t engage in normal etiquette. It’s to much for me.
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I don’t ever answer how I am doing usually cause I would never be honest. I been working on this in therapy/casework where I get to answer it honestly.
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I have been trying to watch movies when Im feeling down…right now my attention is like zero so I cant even listen to an audiobook…but Im gonna try and find a movie or just take another nap…
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I am tired of sz but its a lifelong illness. Nothing can stop it.
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It doesn’t matter. You’re going to have it whether you are tired of it or not. I’m tired of it too.
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I agree - i think everyone has to find that line though where they can live with it. How and where that line is different for everyone. I have to hope and work to get to that line. I know this sounds like positivity BS but I can’t believe I am gonna keep struggling like this daily.
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I believe in Karma @everhopeful
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I’ve tried watching movies but sometimes they make me paranoid. Especially if it’s an action movie.
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