I had worked 9 years for my parent,had played numerous number of game,watched lots of porn and since last year meeting with different people.I want to continue to improve and change lol
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i still isolate myself and rarely contact my old friends… i quit art cos i dont have the motivation. but i cook and sell food/snacks now… my mind is blanking again… anyways my diagnose is quite recent… it has only been a couple of months…
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It’s been a year and three months since my diagnose and I’ve overcome depression, went to take a degree I now regret because I was still delusional when I decided to take the degree. Now I started therapy, and am starting to understand that recovery is a life long path.
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Its been 15 years since i was diagnosed schizophrenia. Nothing has changed really for me. I feel like ive lived how i would have without illness. Schizophrenia is no burden to me. This is how i choose to live my life
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Wow,like your answer
Schizophrenia used to bother me a lot but these days it bother me to a lesser extend
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Im glad it bothers you less. Hopefully one day it wont bother you at all. I know it will!!! Your a good man gtx.
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Thank you,hope so too,: )
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Thank you for this!
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Diagnosed age 18
Now 43
Still struggling been on lots of meds when I was 18 I was on stelazine
Doing accounting now one day a week at college
Still struggle and have to fight to get through each day
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A whole lot of nothing. So many wasted years. Working on changing things now though, ask me again in a few.
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About a month after my diagnosis, around thist time three years ago, I finished my bachelors degree in philosophy and stopped studying . Took a parttime job as a garbageman and got into a post-psychotic depression for a couple of months. Those days I thought it was worse than psychosis, and thought about ending my life a lot.
Fortunately I had already committed to a couple of things when still psychotic and not yet depressed. A job as a TA at university for a couple of months and I had applied for a masters programme I had wanted to get into for a long time already, starting after that summer. The TA job seemed like the worst decision at the time. I felt totally incapable of doing it and thought of every excuse not to do it. My relatives pushed me through and doing it and noticing that I was at least half decent at it meant a lot to my outlook on life at the time.
This period showed to me that when the chips are down, I personally have to turn to academia. The joy and routine of academic discussions in classes upon returning to university both as a TA, and later, as a master student, made all these worries about the point of life vanish. I believe that some questions are wrong questions, which shouldnt be handled by means of a straightforward answer to them, but in a way that makes one no longer ask the question. Returning to academia is not the answer to the question for the purpose of life. But it brings me joy and keeps me occupied in such a way that I don’t raise this question. There was a relapse somewhere between returning to university and the present day. But it was short-lived and took place over the summer holidays such that it went unnoticed to most. Nowadays I’m finishing up my thesis for the MSc. Just a few weeks left…
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Almost Died , Fell in Love , Almost Died , Had Sex With Your Girlfriend , Almost Died , Fell In Love Again , Almost Died … … … ,
See You All Latur (!!!)
I’ve perfected my tennis game.
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Too much but I still feel like I accomplished nothing. Maybe cause I don’t do anything with the things I spent time on out of low lack of self worth. I don’t like this feeling and I would like a way to learn how to cope.
You just crack me up 
Such a great wit! (Unless you were serious)
switched doctors a lot, trying to find the right doctor for me. a few were all right, my favorite pdoc was a clinical nurse I had to see when I first moved to this small town. he was awesome. I’ll call him mike for the duration of this post. mike tried to help, but he was the one who put me on invega. At first it helped but at low doses then things happened and I went without it a few times and was forced to take higher and higher doses of medicine.
It’s been six years since my diagnosis. I still worked for almost two years after my diagnosis but it was hell. I then got disability and haven’t done much since. I do go the movies, go for a walk as often as I feel good, listen to music and visit my friends and my sister. I do rest a lot and try to avoid stress.
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I was diagnosed in my early teens, so before that was childhood, so I guess I have never experienced “life before illness.” So I’ve just kept doing what I’ve been doing. Trying to stay out of the hospital, playing the piano, I go to school 4/5 days a week (because I have a nasty habit of skipping school since it’s so stressful).
Attempted college, but just walked in the fields + woods with dogs + in my mind. Wrote a lot of poems + made things , spent a lot of time in my room, preferred an open window to going outside. Was able to become semi-social w/a few people + my family. Hung around from 20-50 like this waiting for the right medicine to come out. Found one in Geodon, but side effects prevented me from taking it. My other task was in educating psychiatrists what one shrink taught me - that I knew more about which and how much medicine to take than they did and that I was responsible enough to do that. While not seeming to barge in + take over…Moved out on my own after my parents had died to 4 different places. Moved to CA, which I’ve always wanted to do… I think I’ve accomplished enough of my lifetime goals to die respectably…Spent a lot of empty months and years.
I’m 34, diagnosed at age 12. Was last hospitalized at age 18, in 2000. I’ve tried a few careers leading up to this point, and the illness just became too much for me to bear. I went on disability in 2010, and have just been going through the motions since then. I’ve really done very little with my life in the past 6 years. Just been tumbling down the rabbit hole, mostly spinning my wheels. I need to get out of this rut. Doing the Thorazine thing now, trying to approach this patiently and with few expectations.