When You First Joined This Forum

I gotta admit, I became instantly infatuated with it and couldn’t stop reading and posting.

After 5 years or so I’ve chilled out though. So many topics have been covered and recovered…etc.

It’s still time well spent in my opinion.

Were you slap happy when you first joined this website?

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I felt I was all alone with my Sz affliction and was astounded when I realized so many of you shared what I was going through.

Knowing I wasn’t the only one came as a great relief to me.

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@anon39054230 Since I have no friends I hope this will be a good place to form new online friendships. And to get rid of my fears.

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I lurk here a lot. I think I read the most posts of anyone even.

Edit: I’m in 9th place of posts read.

https://forum.schizophrenia.com/u?period=all

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I was desperate to speak to other people with Schizophrenia, as I had been diagnosed two years previous and had cut off contact with mental health services a week after being discharged from hospital.

It took two years for me to find out the reason I had gotten fat and turned into a zombie was the 20mg of Olanzapine I was on.

To be fair I was pretty angry, so did not join in a good place. It coincided with a relapse as I quit the meds cold turkey, and ended up in the hospital again.

I found the other members and Mods very supportive at the time. I drifted away for a couple of years, then had more relapses and came back.

Not left since

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Olanzapine turns everybody into fat zombies, doesn’t it?

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Pretty much I think

Have seen a few people get on with it here, but I certainly found it to do that

It took 2-3 years of switching to find a kinder drug

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A guy at work had a t-shirt on which read…

“Fast Zombies Suck!”

I thought it was a cool shirt because Zombies were all slow in the 70’s movies…but in today’s movies they all move really fast.

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You start to see the same posts over and over again but thats ok. Tho ive only experienced 2 medications so i usually only post about those meds. The only thing that i like is reading the unusual beliefs section, i often think about them and wonder about schizophrenia.

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İ m very happy to join this forum.i learned lot of thing about my illness.despite the i m little awkward for socialising(maybe my etnicity or personal appearence or just my logic im not sure) its good to be here.

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I was convinced I faked anything when I joined and wanted reassurance. I learned on here that belief is quite common.

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When I first joined, I had already been lurking for a few months.

Took me a while to find you guys, as I was convinced it wasn’t SZA, but something deeper.

Wish I would have found this place sooner :hugs:

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When I first joined it was because I had a very unusual belief.

This was the only place that had any information on it.

I read a lot,

When I finally joined, I made the mistake of suggesting someone try cannabis.

Instead of being informed of the forum rules,

I was pretty intensely scolded by a mod and in a way, asked to leave.

I did, for a long time.

But then my problems grew and I came back.

I don’t suggest people use cannabis anymore, because I know the forum rules,

But it was a rough start.

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No. I was afraid to post anything

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I didn’t post for months when I joined.

I posted immediately and had so much fun. Then after a day or two my social anxiety kicked in and I was like oh wat a bummer.

I think I saw the say anything posts and decided to overtake that challenge.

I was already a forum junkie when I find this one. I joined and started searching for what I wanted info on and when I couldn’t find it I started posting.

I was abusing a computers forum for years before posting here in March. Now I abuse this one lol

No you don’t! You give good advice here. I’ve seen a great improvement in you. No we just gotta get you for a walk.

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