What does Schizophrenia mean to you?

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What does schizophrenia mean to you?

For me, it means almost every time I think I take a step forwards in life, I’m actually taking two steps backwards. As an example of this, socially I’m feeling quite free to say hi to anyone I pass by, but in reality I say to myself I hope I don’t get betrayed by my emotional or social dysfunction of my illness.

What does it mean for you ?

Please post below this comment and have a small discussion of this with each other.

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Schizophrenia is to me a vulnerability.

We just perceive the world differently than neurotypicals.

But it’s possible to live a quality low-stress life with it with meds.

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I’ve fallen into the stereotypical social isolation of a schizophrenic. It was a choice though, I could have had a couple of friends but I rejected them in order to 'find myself" and figure myself out by spending a lot of time alone. I don’t think it’s hopeless though, I still talk to people at work and my roommate and I think I can be social again.

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I used to have trouble finding myself. But then I got a phone with gps.

As far as what schizophenia means to me. It unfortunatley still means, reduced enjoyment of a lot of things, even though I have improved in this area, problems with motivation a lot of the time, and lifetime AP’s probably.

I do not really have much in the way positives as long as I stay on the right dosage of AP’s, so that is not an issue I have to deal with much.

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I second @TheFountainPen comment. It’s a vulnerability

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its being sick in the head

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Schizophrenia has me afraid and not waiting to take anymore steps in life. I want to retire in my psychosis and go backwards in life. I want to go to a place where my telepathy rules and everyone wants to have safe fun. Back to my childhood before I became hospitalized and lost my will and willpower. Only loving and fun and intellectually reasoning telepathy can save me from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is telepathy. But seriously it is a medical condition to me. It seems to be a medical condition that always requires medication at some dose. It is a severely disabling medical condition.Bless those that are trying to find new medications to treat this illness. And bless those that have developed the medications that are saving me from a living hell through the medications working in my body.

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For me it has been relearning everything… at the end of the day, what people think of you is what it is… I have my own thoughts though and find I am actually an individual, not a sheep. But I find it hard to be who I was, but that’s where the keys lay

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