My recovery is living a life daily and seek for some improvement…
•I workout a lot but I eat unhealthily
•I go to work daily and do some work but I am still consider inactive
•I take my medication daily and it help with my mental symptoms but still faces side effect,sexual ones
•I live a life with low stress but I still had some bad habit like watching porn
These are all what I do in life,although they are not great but I am still working towards recovery.I don’t have a concrete plan for my recovery but I do hold a little hope that I will get better,I might be able to get married and also have a successful career and life,it is difficult but possible
What about you,what have you been doing and how’s your recovery going?
My life is on hold until I get as close to recovered as I can. I try and get a little closer every day. Till then it’s just chilling with friends and family.
How well is that going for you. Commands respect.
My schedule is busy I work 9.5 hours a day and am required to manage the operations for more than 10 warehousing facilities with over 40 employees. I take my mess as prescribed by the dr and I see him twice a year.
My last relapse was March of 2014 since then I’ve been improving in many levels. I still lack many things that can boost my career like the lack of respect in my voice and my so viewed arrogant personality by others although I am not.
I live my life day by day and have been trying to lose weight after gaining a lot in the past years.
I am living alone and I have a personal budget and a regular checklist to follow my tasks. Technology is very helpful at work as you can customize it to tailor your needs and schedules. I miss my parents a lot, those who are placing a lot of hope in me to succeed and conquer my illness and fight back hard. I always fear relapsing and very often I have mis organized thoughts of persecutory and reference but before they control me I tend to engage with activities to ignore them and I’m not giving them power to dominate me anymore. I wake up every morning with hopes that I can succeed. I deal with more than 30 employees of mid and senior level management everyday and it is not easy. I have a lot of stress but before I let it control me especially after work I go and visit my brother and sister who by chance live in the same country so I relax when we meet. All in all I am always trying to be better than the man I was yesterday and I will keep pushing the doors till I establish a solid ground to stand on. Thank you for your post I really needed to write.
I work too,at a low stress job.i am from the sales department of a small sized company which my father owned with 6 employees.
Although there are only 6 colleagues around me but I find communicating with my colleague is hard.This is a problem,but i am quite worried that not communicating with some of my colleague might cause failure to become successful at my job as a salesman…I don’t want to worry too much and just continue to do my job,just wanted to share this…
I admire that you deal with so many people at work,it’s defitnately not easy,especially for us people with schizophrenia lol
If your father owns the company you should be empowered to freely express your feelings and thoughts and impose decisions as required. For me taking decisions is therapy and enforces me to be part of the group. You know, we function very well when it is very necessary so make it always necessary. That’s what I do. Have a good day it was good to talk.
i have a feeling my recovery will be lifelong. of learning to accept my strength and weaknesses and to work with my illness instead of fighting it 24/7.
my recovery is to live…to overcome and to do something with my life that isnt nothing. i dont want to just exist.
i want to put myself in more stressful situations so i can get used to it, not avoid it. and carry on being med free.
theres always a chance of relapse so its not when i will, more how i will react in certain situations and the best way for me is to go head first but in a non reckless way (although it is a bit)
Managing my anxiety seems to be my best strategy. For some reason anxiety triggers me. Last August though I went in the hospital because I wasn’t able to take my meds and I fell apart. I stopped sleeping and eating. Because I wasn’t eating I couldn’t take my Geodon. That time really proved how important the meds are. The meds, ECT, and my support network have helped me to get better. I’m actually going to graduate this August with my BS after 12 years of struggling to do college. It has really helped me to do school online. So I think another big part of my recovery is finding what works for me. It has taken me years to get to this point, but I think first you need the right treatment to pull you out of the fog. I think sz is different from other mental illnesses because you don’t experience symptoms your life is psychosis. One long psychotic episode. Before I got sick at 26 I would experience the paranoia, hallucinations, and delusions but they didn’t make up my daily life. They were just symptoms. I’m a different person than who I was before 26 so I’m still learning who I am and my limitations.
I go to school every day, my grades are low and I am basically unable to concentrate but I do manage to actually make it to school on days where I don’t have to go to therapy or see my pdoc. I take meds every day as well, as well as go to CBT.
I’m better than when I had my first bout of psychosis, but the symptoms are still there.
My recovery is on going as well. I don’t think I’m ever going to be foot loose and fancy free of this. But as long as I work to make each day better… I can get through my day… Then I think I can keep moving forward.
I think my recovery is going really, really well. Which is why I think it’s dumb that my therapist wants me to go on antipsychotics now. My anxiety is what’s getting worse…
But anyways I still can’t believe I haven’t had a full blown paranoia attack since last summer. I learned how to basically stop them before they happen. (This used to be a MASSIVE issue for me-could never sleep at night because I was so terrified I was in danger from something) And I know how to recognize delusions and I haven’t been fully involved in one since I became aware of the psychosis junior year of hs. I still get the thoughts pop up all the time, but I can fight them now. I stopped getting tactile hallucinations. Everything has just gotten a million times better since I gained insight. I still talk with the voices fairly regularly but it’s largely harmless. My psychosis is better than it’s ever been.
Mainly I want to focus on my anxiety and the trauma I experienced while lacking insight. I wish I could get this through to my therapist.
