I have always been introvert, but I think that my loneliness increased when I started having voices and paranoid thoughts.
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I was always the loner. But sz made it way worse.
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I’m sorry you’re lonely. I have a really hard time if I’m alone. I don’t handle it well. It triggers suicidal ideation in me. Please join something and try to make friends. Being lonely is awful
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Schizophrenia definitely brings loneliness
I have tried over the years to get social but it brought on paranoia voices symptoms now I’m just able to keep going
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It is this time of the year when it is dark and I can not go riding my bicycle because the length of the day is so short. Sometimes I would just like to sleep to the next morning and wake up when it is light. Loneliness causes symptoms of depression in me. I often discuss with my mother on the phone when I feel lonely, but today she is out of the country. I made some coffee, maybe this will cheer me up.
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I was lonely before schizophrenia.
Didn’t feel understood and was a outsider bullied etc
My parents didn’t understand me and my former stepmother was great but we were separated a while so only one I had that period was neighbours dog.
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It’s so great how you ride your bike.
Can you get a indoor bike for when it’s dark or raining?
I have a indoor bike and I do half hour spinning on it.
Hope you will feel better soon.
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I wasn’t particularly well liked by the popular crowd at school to say the least, but the misfit/drug crowd I kinda fitted in to
Since SZ I don’t feel like things have improved socially, but have in other areas like not being dead or an addict.
The main problem is although the court order got me clean of drugs, the programme I did focused little on re-integration back into healthy relationships with other people. What I grew up with was abusive, manipulative, illegal and very warped/twisted life.
That was over 17 years ago now.
Briefly before my second stint in hospital I re-connected with some old school friends, but in the end it felt like I was just latching onto them and I decided to stop calling
Conveniently this happened after I sent the main friend a document that the doctors wrote about me
That probably got circulated and they all laughed like drains I am sure 
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I have not thought about acquiring a indoor bike. I like to ride my bicycle outdoors because it makes me feel better.
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I’m sorry you can’t talk to your mom right now. I talk to my mom everyday. I hope she lives a very long time. I’m sure you feel the same about your mom. Are there any clubs or activities you can join and meet people?
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There is one association for mentally ill people, but their facilities are open during the week days. When I ride my bicycle I see people which makes me to want more bicycling. Well, I think I’ll survive although loneliness can be quite difficult to cope.
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I see. But if you exchange phone numbers with someone you click with during the weekdays at the club, you could talk to a friend on the weekends. It would help you a lot I think.
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I’m half loner , half get out there and have fun. I think this illness makes you lonlier and they need to make better meds to help socialize
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When I was a teen and young adult, I was a loner and lonely. This lasted until I was about age 48 when I decided that I may be a loner, but I don’t have to be lonely anymore. So, I just quit being lonely right then and there. I’m now 62. No more loneliness.
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I was lonely long before I had SZ.
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I was lonely before, then I was harassed all the time after.
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Me too. 15151515
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I had my sister, mom, and grandparents when I was a kid and teenager but felt alone. Things got better when I went to work full-time when I was 19. I thought it was the end of the world when I dropped out of college, but I enjoyed life at the office.
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