what is biggest challenge you face ?
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My obsessive thinking and perseveration.
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Derogatory voices of an old high school friend. Says my internal thoughts are without a filter being sent to him. So he is harassing me.
At the moment, thought broadcasting. Hope to resolve it with low dose Abilify.
After that, it’ll be having the patience to absorb training materials and utilise it for my business.
I think the thing I struggle with the most right now is anxiety. I just can’t seem to function normally anymore, it’s just all so overwhelming. I’m working on it though so hopefully I can get some relief soon.
No, my face is fine. It’s my brain that is the biggest challenge.
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If your using a public clinic,like I do, prepare for a dose of occassional humiliation from the staff at times.
Stay cool, get the meds, and leave. They may ask you questions about how your eating, sleeping etc. answer those truthfully as we can.
It is best we get what we need and go quickly.
The only exception to that is if they offer counseling amd you want it. Even then, it is best to kind of hold yourself in a bit, dont express anger even of you are angery. We can say it “I am angry because…”, but it is best we not act angry.
Someplaces may put us in observation for a couple of days for acting angery, but others may go so far as to stop services.(no meds)
I keep denying therapy. One reason is I’ve had suicidal thoughts so often I was scared of being truthful and telling my therapist and being forced to go back to the psych ward over and over especially one where it’s really boring and the TV is only on at night most of the time. The rest of the time is groups, work books and reading, writing and coloring. And I guess talking but I usually don’t talk much.
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saving enough for a newer model nissan gtr. men and women of this forum, how will I do it.
I think we can help you a little here, maybe?
It sounds like you want to do counseling, but might get carried away with yourself and say something you dont mean. (and go to the ward)
The first thing most of us do is have a crisis plan. When we feel suicidal we know we have to keep ourselves safe. So even if you do think you will change your mind have your safety plan in place before you need it.
This would certainly include the phone number of a crisis line. It does not have to be strictly a suicide line. Do put that number in phone, wallet, or easy to get to place.
If your home lacks privacy then do something like write it on the underside of a drawer.
It is also good to find a person to go to if the feeling keeps going. If there is a relative who is often home then that is the person to chose.
You dont have to tell the person you are suicidal. Sometimes just being around someone less depressed than us helps.
I know that sounds f@$!#d up but true.
I would also like to volunteer the info that myself and many others are bad at taking medicine.
I mean they slap a couple bottles in our hand with directions on the bottles, but da**. Most of us are so confused or paranoid or pisssed we dont even know what day it is. They want us to keep a schedule.
How are supposed to remember when or if we took the last dose ?
I use a calander. I write am and pm. medicine goes n the drawer. if you have to take it with food throw some dollar store snack bars in with it. The snack bars with some milk do the trick. I write the time I took it by am or pm. That lets me remember I did it.
Once you have been on medicine about a month and they have not changed it, - then see if you think you can do counseling with out ending up with them keeping you.
Dont be surprized if your bad at taking the medicine at the right time for the first week.(it gets easier to remember)
Exspect some side effects. You can ask how to deal with any that show up by calling your clinic. A pharmacy may help you too.
Did not mean to write you book.
enough to get you started?
hope it helps?
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My malfunctioning brain…
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It could be a decent start and help. I just really hate having to take meds everyday. I hate having mental illnesses and unhelpful people who are supposed to be professional and help me. I guess all I can do is keep trying. Things can still get better.
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Things will get better. It will take time, but yes. I dont particularly care for the medicine they gave me for medicine either.
I use it. but I dont think it works very well.
If you dont like taking it at all, then most of feel that way. It is kind of a confirmation we have MI, which no one wants to accept.
I think that accepting it, rather than just the actions of taking pills, - accepting it is the hard part.
There are people here who do take medicine, have accepted, then moved on with their lives. ( job, a gf/bf, a place to stay)
There is life after MI. It cant be denied it takes patience to reach it though.
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Do you mean other than schizophrenia? Isn’t that enough?
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Right now it is definitely my excessive need for sleep and daytime fatigue. I hope my doctor’s appointment next week can put me on the path to healing from that. I would love to have more hours in the day
Getting rid of my compulsive need to push people away.
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Physical disabilities and chronic pain.
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I don’t have challenges if I not make it … but it’s hard to keep a friend or have gf
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Right now, it’s the ability to produce work in more than fragmentary form. I have cool ideas, but can’t seem to put them together in an organic whole. Sorta like Rain Man’s snapshots at the end of the movie. All piecemeal, so the sense of a symphony is a torn-up photograph. It really sucks.
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Taking good care of my son and myself, in that specific order. Making sure my son gets a safe and loving upbringing despite my struggle with psychosis and ptsd. Finding a balance between my deep wish to keep him safe (also safe from my psychotic behaviour) and my deep wish to be near him as much as possible.
Also, taking good care of myself. Both practically (cooking, cleaning, keeping track of my finances) and emotionally (not hating myself for stupid things I did).