I think it is the lack of giving a ■■■■
also the cats
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same but minus cats
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I think the best part is knowing your own bullsh*t, and knowing when your brain is messing with you. Apart from when you’re acutely ill of course.
The knowledge of the brain. Everything else sucks imo
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My pdoc is really nice and he says that he really admires me because I am coping with a nasty illness, going to college and trying to find work. So I guess I appreciate the respect people give me when I’m able to accomplish things in spite of the illness.
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I agree with the don’t give a ■■■■ part. Also we are real as hell. One time here someone said that they had got an ear cleaning at the doctors and that it felt good. I will never get over that. 
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Best part of being schizophrenic for me, is to warn for the future problem by my brain, and acceptance of the works / thoughts in a spiritual way.
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Gaining thru experiences the knowledge that realities can be manipulated by perceptions and nothing and everything is real at the same time, and we each inherently hold the power to change our realities mearly by altering our perceptions.
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Well I don’t think there’s much good in slipping into psychosis. Except that it is the condition for getting out of it - which is awesome. For me this went hand in hand with ditching a lot of attitudes I took on almost without being aware of it during the years prior to my onset. Getting out meant reconsidering and ditching some of these attitudes and values, consciously taking on new ones. Regardless of what the values and attitudes in question are, I think this just might be what personal growth can be said to consist of. Along the lines of choosing the person you want to become. I used to be very content with myself, but not so much with the world, such a cynical and skeptical little ■■■■ I was. Now I am content with both, so there’s progress I suppose 
Not being stuck in a job you hate from 9 to 5because you have to earn a living
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I think that the best part of being schizophrenic is realizing that these “stressors” like being late for an appointment are unimportant. Don’t sweat the small stuff! There are far bigger things to contend with.
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I like that I don’t have fatal cancer. Or progeria. Or ALS. Or MS. Or cystic fibrosis. That I’m not confined to a wheelchair, or worse, quadriplegic.
“The but for the grace of God…” is a huge daily reminder to myself every time I get annoyed at the Traveling Alien Road Show in the corner of my head. Things could be a helluva lot worse.
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my voices sometimes keep me on track with what’s going on around me. they’ll tell me what other ppl are thinking when otherwise i can’t figure it out cause i’m bad at reading body language.
I agree. It’s so hard to work or even go to the shop with schizophrenia. But most people without schizophrenia love going to work. When I was taking Abilify I just wanted to work and leave the house. Now I’m on risperidone I couldn’t be BLEEP to work. The newer drugs are really targeting the right area of the brain, they just need adjusting. One little tweek of the drugs could possibly make a huge difference.
There is literally nothing positive about having this illness.
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I agree nothing positive about schiz
But remember there are other things in life happening out there other than schiz that suck
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You get to meet new people everyday 
Zing
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I totally agree with you @metime
We are as Real as it gets 
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You never get to trust your own mind again
Yea you could get eaten by a shark but at least people would remember you fondly