Are completely self-supporting and not homeless or living in a group home??
I think I read an article on this once and the number was very low. Like 10%. But I may be wrong.
I’m supported by my parents and SSDI…I know if it weren’t for that I’d be homeless years ago…Maybe living in a group home by now…but yeah.
This poll that was done last month is perhaps accurate - though people on this forum are probably more functional and high achieving than most people who have schizophrenia:
Yeah true. Plus I voted independently so it’s kind of skewed…when in fact I probably should have voted “in supported housing” because my rent comes from SSDI and my parents paying part of it. I thought because I live independantly physically, that it’s independant living when in fact it’s probably not. I talk to a friend online who talks like I’m real spoiled that my parents support me financially at 25…I wanna show statistics about how if it weren’t this way I’d be homeless most likely.
Plus it’s sad and all…
I hope one day to be 100% independant after I finish my degree, even if that’s 5-10 years down the line.
Thanks.
No - I think you were right - you live by yourself and I would call that living independently - the focus was on where you live and not on how its paid for.
I have lived in an assisted living center for the mentally ill four fourteen years now. I’m thinking of trying to move into public housing.
I’m supported by my brother, my sister and my stepfather. My stepfather provides a roof over our heads. What category does that go in? I used to live independently. I was married, owning my own home. I moved into another home in a different state in 1991. My wife divorced me in 2001. I lost my daughter to suicide in 2007. .All this since 1982 up until this year. I ran out of money which had been provided by my mother in an inheritance.
I’m almost in the same situation as you @turningthepage. Although my rent is fully covered by my disability check (a little bit more than half goes to my rent), I also have to pay for student debt and my alarm system.
My parents help me with groceries when I run out of money and cable and electricity bills. Bottom line is I’m tired of being poor, but to become rich you have to be hard-working and that’s hard with the meds…
Jesus dude. I’m sorry for your loss.