Were you the same, crazy or not crazy? I’m not sure what I was like but would like to get into therapy of some sort.
What were you like, my kind and beloved fellow forum users?
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I guess I was normal, highly motivated, smart, and had a future. I didn’t suffer from any obvious mental conditions except maybe anger and lack of empathy and compassion for others, hence the aspergers diagnosis.
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I wanted to be a pro athlete. I got sick during the first summer of practice in college. Lost a scholarship and pretty much everything else.
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I was the popular class clown, football player type kid. With intrests with sports and just making people laugh. Bringing others to laugh brought me the greatest satisfaction in life. Knowing you could cheer up a friend was a great feeling. Now it’s a bit more difficult with my lack of emotion and speech, but I’m working on it. I hope I can be the kid I was before schizophrenia, and still have all the things I gained from this illness.
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I was the same as I am now, just without hallucinations and problems with concentration. It didn’t permanently change me to the point where I’d sound or act different on a forum because of it.
Biggest difference was I had the concentration to study… I was in school working towards my four year degree. Now I have problems with focus that make studying and attending classes difficult.
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I’ve always been like this,
Its not the worst way to be.
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Happy with a passion for life.
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I had a relationship with a teacher thru poetry
he gave me his thesis, and I studied it for every clue.
My kids dad said he couldn’t reach me.
I thought I was normal though.
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l wrestled when I was young. I had some very good years, but my wrestling career ended badly. When I was little I had the worst crushes on girls. They were total obsessions. I’ve talked to other guys who said they experienced something similar. When I turned fifteen I started having some really bad anxiety attacks. I turned into a great big druggie. I became dysfunctional in the army, but I didn’t get a pension for it. Oh well, life isn’t bad right now.
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A lot of poets are crazy imo. I think poetry would drive me crazy. I like Robert Frost though. I took American Literature at community college and couldn’t understand half the ■■■■ but still managed an A. The abstract movement was crazy and hard as hell to understand. It rivaled my calculus classes in difficulty.
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Phil says this too, some of the classics are challenging, but the contemporary packs the punch.
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Remember this one? I had to look it up because I forgot about it. Really deep, but abstract and difficult to understand.
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I was a gym rat, really smart and witty, loved playing tennis and reading about everything. Loved hanging out with friends and going on road trips to nowhere.
I guess part of that is just the lifestyle of a teenager vs the lifestyle is an adult. But I’m nothing like I used to be.
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I was just quiet and bullied and fat turned thinner and drunk and having fun with my first boyfriend
Then smoke and acid / ecstasy / paranoia
Made me diagnosed a year later
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I was able to calculate math word problems with ease, I drew extremely realistic, very soft and fine details that it looked just like the picture, even better with led pencil. I was in all the honors classes and participated every time I had the chance, my concentration was on point. Never zoned out, never got things logically incorrect. I enjoyed Biology and was learning stuff that med students were in 10th grade and had a 100 in each term. It’s actually quite devastating to think how south things went. I don’t really want to talk about it. It’s upsetting me. I didn’t drink alcohol until I started meds… I was a brainiac
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wow, thanks for sharing.
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I was a workhorse I kicked ass at my job, for really not good reason other then I had been out of a job and depressed for a couple years and wanted to make a change. Before that I was depressed because I’d thought I was getting fired from my first job, and I quit preemptively to keep it looking like I had a good record.
I think I quit the first job from paranoia, and that most of my problems have come from subtle influences of schizophrenia bleeding through.
I guess I wasn’t as bad as I thought…Just wish I’d have decided to kick ass before because that work ethic made me feel like a boss, and now that I don’t have motivation its very apparent that its gone.
Rip work ethic, I only got to know you for a short time, but it was a nice time.
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Yeah. I never had a chance to live an adult life with a real job to support myself, since right before I turned 16, I started losing my grip. Then by winter break junior year I had a psychotic break. Friends put me in denial and I stopped the meds after I was losing all my cognition when I came back from winter break. Then after that, I didn’t recover, I got worse. I couldve had it worse, the kid that was in trigonometry in tenth grade, who sped through the tests like me, ended up passing away from a drug overdose a couple years ago. God bless him.
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- Personality- Very quiet and shy and an extreme loner.
- Brains- Very bright. The kid that did everyone’s homework.
- Interests- Rock and roll and R & B music.
- Hobbies- Dancing literally everywhere I went and no matter who was around.
- Passions- Rock and roll and R & B and pop music.
- Likes- Both boys and girls.
- Dislikes- Anyone interfering with my bulimic activities.
- Miscellaneous- I was severely bulimic from age 15 to age 23.
I am nothing like any of the above anymore. Except for being a loner.
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I thrived on stress and pressure. I could multitasking easily. I could and did things independently. I could learn anything. I had tons of friends. I played piano. Sang at church. Was on the corporate softball team and a member of the corporate choir. Had high self esteem and confidence. Dated a lot of quality men. Etc etc
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