Hey guys, as above, thoughts? I have lost all my friends, my job, my education ect!
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I lost my self.
I lost my mind.
My imagination.
My poetry. Etc.
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I hear ya om sadasiva!
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I lost alot of freinds. And my wife and my Daughter.
I lost my dignity to a certain extent too.
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I have not lost anything due to schizophrenia, I have only gained things.
It is true that before I got schizophrenia I was considered a “normie”, however my status as a “normie”
was not sustainable going into adulthood ( I got sz at 20).
So this way or the other I was bound to veer off the beaten path anyhow.
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I think it actually forced me to get.my life together. Well partially. I went back to school for art therapy so I have a career to look forward to which gives me a sense of purpose. It did shake up my relationship at times but she was abusive ayway so . I will say I became addicted to pot to cope and that cost me a lot of money and made me neglect myself for months.
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I lost everything except my parents. But during psychosis I almost lost my parents too due to my bad behavior toward them.
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Lost time im not getting back
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I gained more than I lost. I got medicated, I got an answer as too why I was experiencing what I was. I gained tools to deal more properly with the symptoms.
Lost friends, lost jobs, lost my mind long well before I got diagnosed. For me it was already rock bottom.
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Nothing I needed as it turned out. Found many cool new things on the detour I was forced onto including a wife and kid. Currently enjoying a mostly comfortable middle age other than some issues from my wife’s aging parents.
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I had nothing to lose when I was diagnosed. My life actually got better. I had a real shitty childhood. SZ is nothing compared to the torture of growing up in the way I did
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my job, some friends and my mind really… but it got a bit better again when on the right meds but work i will never get back and friends i got some new friends but i find it hard to keep up with them as i am kinda asocial.
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I lost my son, my career, some money, a house, my ability to drive, several lovers, many cars, some paid and many volunteer jobs, my ability to make friends, my intelligence.
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I think I lost social status. Now im not a normie, im a person who always has special needs.
Not that I had a balanced life, but somehow being a SZ is the same as saying I am unbalanced, in spirit.
I lost self-esteem. I lost lust for life. And I lost the hability to see myself as what I am, somehow this links to the internal dialogue/mind chatter/thoughts. I can’t think straight. Lost that. Lost the hability to see in hindsight what I am in society.
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Wow like my schizophrenia is epic severe. my passed away brother who was murdered by gangsters at 15 when I was 6 was torturing me as a visual hallucination for a long time I thought it was him not demons n I threw away all his cool tuff as â– â– â– â– pictures n yearbook. Ive lost my college diploma hallucinations forced me to rip it up and I actually before I knew wanted to make it up to my brother n I threw away about 100 of my best pictures all the way to when I was little. Also a double sided masterpiece I drew when experimenting with meth. 
They made me destroy. Meth is crazy. And made my sz out of control epic hell.
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I lost 2 jobs, a house, my truck and mostly voluntarily, my friends.
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I lost self confidence.
Gained self insecurity.
Seriously, with healthcare, I think i live better now despite of difficulties.
I try to manage the “covid vibe”.
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Im not sure ! I can’t figure out if I have negative symptoms or not !!
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Except meds slow me down but I just drink a ton of coffee and am good to go!
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I used to drink a lot of coffee too, but have cut it back to one or two cups a day. I feel bad if I don’t get any though.
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