I’m curious for me it was that my illness caused me to behave bizarrely and it wasn’t my fault
If you wanna share coping strategies and skills it’s all welcome
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That I make sense.
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Many things. All of them are that I’m being taught all kinds of skills to deal with all kinds of situations and emotions.
I’m in a very intensive program with weekly individual and group therapy, homework each week, and access to 24/7 coaching calls.
This week’s skills I’m practicing are to overcome the shame I feel due to having a very low end, minimum wage job.
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I don’t think this was the most helpful but most memorable from a psychiatrist or I think she was more of a social worker but probably trained in psychology. They said when I said I didn’t like the hospital that “people are as happy as they make their mind up to be”. Clearly she has not spent 2 months locked in a hospital lol
The most positive things is probably the description I heard of Asperger’s on YouTube as it hit home. Wasn’t anything in particular but helped me understand myself a bit more.
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It was that common story about the two wolves inside us. I was very young and for some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks.
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He walked outside with me and said everything will be okay and no FBI will hurt you. He made me smile because for the first time I felt a little safe.
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She told me she liked me. I think that’s the first time I ever heard that from someone.
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That masturbation is ok and acceptable. And alcohol and marijuana are not ok or acceptable. To stop beating myself up. And do what I can and except it even if it is not doing all that I want to be doing. That I am in a situation where I am well taken care of and not being abused in any way.
You work in a store right?
Because there’s no shame in that. It might be low paid, but it takes skill to work there. You have to be a people person, be nice and polite, serviceminded and patient amongst other. This is a job far from everybody could do. And you are doing it despite great challenges with the sz and meds. If anything you should be proud 
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My best coping strategy is probably to not ruminate about figuring out life and people(which is sort of how my psychosises started). Just to get out of the macroperspective and into the microperspective.
If I feel I’m slipping into thoughts about figuring out stuff I fight it and shift my focus to something else, keeping busy.
Thanks @Mr_Hope . Yes, I’m in retail. I only make minimum wage
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I agree with @Mr_Hope that there’s no shame working in a store. If my mood wasn’t so bad all the time I’d like to work at a Co-op grocery store by my apartment. They want happy friendly people and I’m never happy except on rare occasions like today for some reason.
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The grocery stores by me pay way more than what I’m making. I applied, and during the interview I was told to come back when I’m no longer disabled. I’m not kidding. I was shocked
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That’s terrible. They shouldn’t have said that to you.
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@Dogslife I called corporate to tell them what happened. They wanted to discuss it further but I didn’t. I just wanted to report it and leave it alone
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