I am a new poster and recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. I don’t get how we are supposed to spend our time. I wish there was some sort of packet, with ideas of things you could do. I’m thinking about educating myself and learning music. What are we supposed to do in our free time?
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Learning music would be a good past time. Try to think of constructive things to do - like learning music.
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Your question makes me think that maybe we are just suppose to realize the scope of all life and it’s existence, so just practice the realization of existence it self and experience time as a means of traveling towards a brighter realization of life itself and how all living creatures experience this same type of existence. Do we know anything else but this time we have existing on the Earth? It seems we do not even understand life very well at all because life along with reality is constantly changing while at the same time the laws of the universe are the things that do not change like God who is said to never change.
I have done nothing with my free time for about two years. I am going to change that now though. Going to fix my bike a cycle around like I used to. It’s interesting to do. Just need motivation.
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Hi and welcome to the forum.
Therapy takes a hour or so a week and a good place to start. Things like self-esteem courses etc do also. Finding some sort of hobby helps reduce stress which reduces symptoms.
When your up to it something like a part time,casual jobs or even volunteer work. Which helps a lot with our self esteem. Feeling connected to people and the community. A few things to do at any rate.
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welcome. think about all the things you enjoy and pick one out of the hat daily.
good luck. judy
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I’m supposed to have free time?!?
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who are you… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUtH0DDJorM
as a free child, mother, father, child, couin, tribe … all tha blocks you … are already that awareness
id say…think deep then excercise those thoughts.
ARE YOU THE LAW OR REBELLION , THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE ESCAPES ALL DEFINITION
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION YOU SHOULD ASK, IS "WHO am i?
YOU RUN AWAY, YOU EXPERIENCE BOTH SUCCESS AND FAILURE
UNLESS YOUR QUESTIO9N IS ANSERWED, NO ANSWER WILL REPLY
YOU CAN INVESTIGATE
BACK TO THE ASUMPTION THAT YOU ARE
SOMEBODY WITH MOR POWER, MORE INSIGHT, … ■■■■ THAT
i AM AND NOT
WHO ARE YOU REALY
?
TURN YOUR ATTENTION, ARE YOU THE OBJECT OR THE AWARENESS OF THE OBJECTS
wHo are you, the search in psyche, there is no enetiy there at all you you are awareness
awareness is consciousness
rest in you true nature, befopre any thought of I or ego arises
i am a bad boy
a good boy
you can die laughing but it is a good way to go
when you fall into it
yeah riich the ego
teen spirit
sit in the dumpstr, you just dont have tisen, I sing year from year, in the heart of the song my teachers sings me, is it a lulliie
amazing grace or this
rapsody
hellow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8xCnAkAhM
some drink communion
you got a leader, mommy or daddy
Lots of people volunteer at local organizations to get themselves out and get some work experience that could eventually prepare them for a job.
Others take part-time classes or online courses to help learn more.
And there are a million other things. This is a common issue - here are some ideas from past discussions:
Think
Hunger
Food
Water
People have forgotten their roots.
Also - a very important one - Excercise!
Thinking Outside the Pillbox: Fish Oil and Exercise for Schizophrenia?
Bulking up the hippocampus
Besides fish oil, another heart-healthy intervention may prove useful for schizophrenia. Pajonk, of Dr. K. Fontheim’s Hospital for Mental Health, Liebenburg, Germany, and colleagues find that exercise may grow the hippocampus, even in subjects with chronic schizophrenia.
Exercise did more than enlarge the hippocampus; it also improved memory and symptoms.
Most imaging studies find a disproportionately small hippocampus, relative to the rest of the brain, in subjects with schizophrenia (see Gur et al., 2007; see also recent SRF Hippocampus in Schizophrenia Roundtable). This finding does not seem to result from antipsychotic medication.
Research suggests that exercise improves brain structure and function. In fact, a recent review (van Praag et al., 2009) concluded that it fosters neurodevelopment in rodents, including in the hippocampus, where processes related to learning and memory occur. To see if exercise would increase hippocampal volume in human subjects with schizophrenia, Pajonk and colleagues conducted a proof-of-concept study.
The study enrolled men with chronic schizophrenia who ranged from 20 to 51 years old. All had been taking stable doses of antipsychotic medication for at least six weeks. They were randomly assigned to participate in either an exercise or a non-exercise group. A group of eight control subjects, matched to the schizophrenia exercise group on demographic characteristics, verbal intelligence, body mass index, and weight-adjusted peak oxygen uptake, also received the exercise training.
The exercise group bicycled indoors under supervision for 30 minutes daily, three times a week, for 12 weeks. Subjects in the control group spent the same amount of time playing tabletop football. The researchers explain that the latter does not affect aerobic fitness, but does improve coordination and concentration. No subjects in either group experienced adverse events.
Magnetic resonance imaging at baseline and three months later supplied the data needed to compute hippocampal volume as a percentage of total brain volume. Repeated-measures analysis of variance weighed the effects of time and treatment on relative hippocampal volume.
In both exercise groups combined, those who completed the intervention increased their relative hippocampal volume by 14 percent (p <.001 for time effects) over three months. Subjects with schizophrenia and healthy controls changed equally on this measure. In neither group did exercise change the volume of the whole brain or the gray matter alone.
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