Who believes in the Recovery Model even for those of us with sz?

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I lost belief in myself.
I just feel like I’m lost to all recovery. .

I don’t even have a “self” to believe in.

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I hear that. I can’t handle stressful situations. A person was telling others in the waiting room about, I think a family member, who just died, bled out before the ambulance could get there. All I could think about was my own anxiety and trying not to think some godawful thought about the situation.

Others gave this person a hug, I couldn’t keep focus on a simple grounding technique to try to keep calm. I hate my mind, it wasn’t nearly this broken before the sz. I had lessons to learn before sz like anyone else but now my life is in shambles and I can’t stand myself.

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Keep fighting Jackie! Sz is a huge challenge but learn as much as u can about it and persevere. Take control of your own recovery with a great support system. It took me a while to feel confident enough to task about the possibility of recovery but it is possible! Go for it!

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For some of us that support system is hard to find. I have a stepdaughter and granddaughters that really care but at the moment they can’t do much as I am not near them.
A move is on the cards which I am really anxious about but it would mean me being near them.

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i’ve got no support system, my mother senile for years died of coronavirus, i hadn’t seen her for 6 months, couldn’t handle the train journey, my sister has to care for my brother who had a stroke a year ago, she never really agreed, they said it’d be temporary and she’d get support. as you can imagine she’s not prepared to look after me as well

i’ve spent most of the past few months alone in this flat

just got the form from my mental health assessment, they’re going to review my case in 6 months residual schitzoprenia? i’ve had hebephrenic paranoid simple, schitzoaffective, lived with the illlness on meds for 40 yrs

i’m more concerned about been deemed to be bettter, the on drug better is not fitness for work therefore i’m dependent on benefits for which theres a requirement to prove illnesss, residual schitzoprenia? what if the department for work and pensions says benefits?

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