Elyn Saks takes clozapine. If it works, it works well.
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@Aziz is nice. Leave him alone.
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i take clozapine too and i feel much better on it but i can’t see how people like elyn sasks and such get the energy to go outside… i’m scared of so many things and going out is really hard. But for her work she has to go outside so i wonder how she does that.
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I don’t have the energy to go out of my bed too, I just go out of bed to eat, to go to the bathroom or sometimes to play video games for 20min next to my bed on my PC.
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yea i wonder how those people with sz do that… like have the motivation to do all the stuff they do. My mind can’t understand it…
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Maybe she is on a low dose of clozapine instead of a high dose…
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yea could be… we don’t really know what she is on i think and also how much they struggle to do the things they do…
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@naturallycured said she is on clozapine but who knows for sure, plus what else she might be on.
Yea and how much they struggle you can never really know that’s so true.
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Eleanor Longden’s voices helped her during her university exam and she got the highest grade!
Lol I wish my voices were like that, mine are violent and insulting like kill your mother, kill yourself, you have HIV, you’re a criminal, etc
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When I was studying in university voices would say you’re stupid, loser, b!tch, cheater, etc They called me a cheater because I was studying and getting high grades A’s. It was traumatizing.
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The worst thing my voices talked about was hell and likewise for the delusions 
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You’re not a loser.
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Sometimes they told me to bring a knife and kill my priest. I was hiding many knives under my bed and pockets when unmedicated.
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I agree @Aziz and really feel for you. I don’t think you can change your situation, simply by motivation, baby steps or changing attitude.
But if i was you i really would seek out a medical solution, adding on an AD by trial and error, have a good talk with you PDOC about your locked situation, and try several kinds of medicine until you find a match with your brain and way of being.
You are not responsibly for you own situation. You suffer very much from a neuropsychiatric disease, medicine is complicated today, you have to try to seek out several new combinations before you find relieve… God luck.
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I stop it by using coping skills I learned in therapy before I have ideation.
I’m glad you’ve moved past that. 
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Elyn saks says:
Everything about my illness says that I shouldn’t be here. But I am. And I am, I think, for three reasons. First, I’ve had excellent treatment, both psychoanalytic psychotherapy and medication. Second, I have many family members and close friends who know me and who know my illness. Third, USC Law School is an enormously supportive workplace which has been able not just to accommodate my needs, but to embrace my needs.
I’m still none the wiser. I too am at a loss as to how she does it.
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I get it. I think luck is a definite factor in how you respond to meds, but there does seem to be a difference in life philosophy between those who are happy with their lives and those who aren’t.
I am not happy bcz I am always in bed. I was much happier before sz and while on Abilify.
I do have some good days though just not as good as before sz or when on Abilify.