I was able to go to college until age 42.
I met my husband at college.
I don’t have to get up for work, and I can stay home and work on my painting.
more meaning to life
more resilient on mental health
reward after life
What do I like about having schizophrenia and bipolar you ask?
NOTHING
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I see our lives as different
I know the spirit world sees me/us differently
you find out who is ''truly on your side
The voices that I’m friendly with
The benefits and not having to work
The visual hallucinations that I get after smoking loads of cannabis - truly faccinating
One.
For a short stint I was thrilled to be able to imagine all sorts of supernatural scenarios regarding people and the world at large. Until I realized I was very low functioning. Then all the fun vanished.
Two.
I reconnected with my parents and they trimmed all their unreasonable expectations of me.
Three.
I was able to see who my real friends are.
Other than the above, total mayhem.
Accepting all sides to me
realizing everyone is unique/different
insight into mental illness
Invulnerable to embarassment
No extra charges for cellular plan overages: no calls
Failures written off as disability
It gave me a dern good way to write a book about what exactly I went through mentally…my sister after she read the book asked "you were thinking so much all the time, ? sounded exhausting. " and I said, “yes, indeed. very tiring.”. never want to go back there. I never read my own book now, except for cherry picking through the table of contents for the euphoric chapters. anyways…that’s the only good thing for me that came out of it…the first thirty pages of my book are on the home page of this forum under “schizophrenia success stories”. in case anyone wants a taste. OUT OF IT an autobiography on the experience of schizophrenia.
I would MUCH rather work than be this screwed up…no question.
I completely admire everyone here who is able to work with this diagnosis. I’ve tried several times but I can’t.
This disability causes me waaaaay more stress than working did before my diagnosis. Just sayin…
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Thank you for your service. We are in this together. That’s what some guy told me.
I got sick at 16 so never really got to experience a real job without issues. I worked growing up- yard work and helped my dad do things around his rent houses and our house and other projects. That sounds nice to consider work as something preferable. I’m not saying I don’t, but I never really got to grow up and work a real job like a normal human being. I’ve had a lot of jobs, but I was struggling like crazy.
- Having the IQ of a gnat
- Sitting out by the trailers.
- Watching the flies hit the zapper.
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more fantasy more creativity
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