I try to be nice to the roommate and understanding and so when he’s symptomatic I sometimes hesitate to react to his raving. And so either purposely or or unconsciously he uses that hesitation to laugh at me. My whole motive is to treat him nice but if he wants me to be mean than I will jump on it and oblige him. Why do I treat these people with respect.? They don’t have schizophrenia, I do. They make a big deal about being respected but they are 58 years old and knocking on my door begging for me to loan them money. Plus they are annoying as*holes, though the guys are interesting people.
You wanna talk about winning over the normies? When I lived in a big house with seven mostly normie roommates it was ME they came to begging for money and rides. They had no physical or mental illness but didn’t work and sat around collecting unemployment. It was me who drove 50 miles to pick up the guy when jail released him. And I had a bad cold at the time. I saved his as*. But I win all the time over them.
I had roommates too so I hear ya. They didn’t respect me even though I gave them tons of respect back but after a while I started throwing some their own ■■■■ in their direction and they couldn’t handle it so eventually I moved.
I know you know this but I learned that toxic folks + those with sza/sz, is a horrible combination.
But do what you have to do @77nick77 I used to fawn and such to keep their sense of peace but gosh the end result is far from worth it.
I have to say, sometimes I end up doing more for my girlfriend and her family than most so called normal people would tolerate doing. And sometimes they can be so spoiled that it’s like I’m the only adult present. I totally get what you’re talking about @77nick77. Don’t let em get you down. You know you’re the righteous one and they can’t take that away from you.
