What was your lucky break in life?

For me it was when I dropped out of university but then landed a job that turned into a career. Those were the days…

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Maybe I am in the lucky phase :thinking:

Were you very happy at that time?

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Career lucky break was when I got transferred out of the tax department and into hedge fund auditing.

Relationship lucky break was when I met my wife

Survival lucky break was when I hit a telephone pole with my car, broke it, and survived to walk away from the crash
What happened is there was a ditch before the pole, so the nose of my car went down , I crushed the pole with the roof of my car, flipped end over end, rolled 3 times sideways. Police said they never saw someone survive a crash so bad

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Yes, I was very happy. At least in the beginning anyway.

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Not sure about mine :thinking:
People around me find me very lucky

If I write down my life to 28, I guess it was 2014 ? When I went back to university and got a full time job + started my career (after psychosis) I think I was happy for like a whole year.

Then PTSD hit me in February 2015.

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It was a horrible few months but after I had psychosis my life just got better and better. Not the shy girl who sits in the corner anymore.

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The meds

And I know this sounds bad but when I got into hallucinogens I got obsessed with “the ego” and why it was bad. So I was obsessed with the ego. Then during my bad trip that I talked to my PTSD therapist today about, during the come-down my friend called me on the phone and said two words…“YOUR EGO”…and I said “I KNOW”…sure it caused chaos at first and caused me to completely lose my mind dwelling on “the ego” an unproven Freudian concept. But in some strange weird way I think it actually saved me from further pain and damage and in the long run I am a better man for my interest in “the ego”. I am definitely not a narcissist if I ever was. I think we all have problems with our ego at some point in our lives, but I don’t think I have many problems with it today thanks to my obsession with the ego for many years. Osho said “you must go through the chaos of the ego to reach the true core” and I guess I did go through the chaos. Still trying to find the truest core but I’m on my way :blush:

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Funny how negative memories overwhelm the positive ones.
Something not working right for me to not feel happy, or be stable day to day.
Not sure why.

I remember once maybe in 2013 December during my psychosis, I was almost broke and had maybe like 400 bucks in my wallet, and we went to the casino with friends and I put all of the money there and thought, who cares? life is over for me. It is a different reality in the end so takes really a long time to heal. :confused:

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My whole life was a lucky break, until my psychotic break.

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my lucky break was getting to go and get a degree in Architecture before I got fully blown psychotic. I was late onset at 35 when I got sick. My second lucky break was meeting my wife on this site (the old forum) we gave it the best we could but we struggled because we weren’t stable…we were both on Abilify. bad med in my opinion. my third lucky break was meeting my current girlfriend, Angie. she means the world to me.

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that is beautiful! :o)

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I actually got an increase in physical strength when I was on Abilify, but it sure made me crazy. However, like most med’s, some people benefit from it.

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When I was in college I had to maintain a certain GPA to maintain my eligibility for the flying program I was in. I didn’t make it one semester and managed to get two grades changed so I didn’t get disqualified.

Lucky break. One of the teachers said my grade was wrong and she just fixed it. Another teacher gave me one higher grade.

That would have changed my life drastically.

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Meeting a psychiatrist that was really willing to help me after have been ignored for 12 years. It was a great luck!

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My lucky break was me being born into the family I was born into. Past that it’s pretty much been just absolute crap luck at every draw :sob::sob:

I have comorbid mental disorders, a sleep disorder and now I’m starting to show signs of ulcerative colitis which runs on both sides of my family FML

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Long, long ago I was smoking crack with a couple of women in my car in some neighborhood. A couple of cops pulled up and a cop ordered us out of the car. He found a $20.00 rock under my seat. He asked if he could search my trunk. I said no but he searched anyways and found a used syringe that I didn’t know was there.

This cop did not like me one bit, in fact he hated me. I was leaning against my car and he was close to me and I mistakenly thought he was going to punch me in the stomach so I leaned forward and put my hands down over my stomach to soften the blow. The cop freaked out and went ballistic. He asked me what I was doing and then he slapped some cuffs on me and stuck me in the back of his cruiser.

He walked away and left me there and I thought I was going to jail and all could think of was how mad and disappointed in me my father was going to be. But the cop came back and after poking my face several times with his finger drawing blood, the jerk let me go. Smoking crack is a felony and to this day I cannot figure out why he let me go. So I drove away and drove 10 miles to my own city and got my crack there. Just a typical day as an addict.

Oh yeah, losing my virginity in Soteria House to a gorgeous voluptuous 22 year old Mexican woman when I was 20, lol.

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There have been times when I was right on the verge of catastrophe, and I guess I got an extremely lucky break when the catastrophe didn’t happen.

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After my first breakdown I landed a fun job teaching music to children.

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when I met my husband, my soulmate

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Probably getting on disablity, because I was at the brink trying to work.

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