I don’t quite get it and I don’t mean to offend anyone but I seen a poll the other day that said ,at that time, that 34 percent of us are working. It would seem to me if I was unable to work , I would not be happy with my meds. But yet 75 percent of us are happy with are meds. So are some of us just settling with so so results from are meds and ok with not being able to work, or does the stigma keep is from finding employment. Maybe we just have that many still in school. I don’t know the answer but am curious,. If you fall into this category and want to share , I’m curious. No offense intended I Know we all can’t work or don’t need to work.
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I am in school but with my retirement check, VA disability check and SSDI I don’t need a job really.
Will consider going back to work in the summer when I finish school but it would have to be for really good pay to risk losing two disability checks.
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Medication does not help with every symptom or problem for people with schizophrenia. Medication, to the best of knowledge, does not help with motivation problems, a common symptom of schizophrenia. Even a good medication or the right medication that works best for each individual will not cure all their problems. Also medication does not help for hygiene problems. It will not cure all delusions or paranoia or hallucinations. These symptoms are stronger for some people than others.
No offense intended from me either, I am just stating facts. You can see how difficult it would be for anyone with these problems to go to a job every day.
don’t think everybody who can’t work is OK with it. But some accept it as a reality. If you consider that the typical age of onset for males is 19- 21, that is the time when men are out of high school and beginning to learn how to function in the world and what their role or place is in it. That means learning to function in society but schizophrenia throws a monkey wrench into the plan. That age is hard for anyone, both women and men but a schizophrenic is dealing with almost the worst time in having schizophrenia and does not learn or experience crucial lessons that he should be knowing.
Women a have a little advantage in this context because the typical age of onset is about 26-30 years so they learn and accomplish more for being “normal” at this age which incidentally often means a better prognosis. So males “fall behind” and it messes them, up later in life.
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Are you happy with how your meds work?
a couple of months ago i was functioning enough to have the illusion of a mind fit for business paperwork and social skils to get by in a limited capacity and feeling all recovered
im a bit backwards with things now and freak out for 1 or 2 days either side for every hour I’m in company (outside family)
that reminds me so much of early recovery and fragility
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I tried five times to return to my work as an architect and every time I would fail I would try to take my life…I settled with being on disability…I wish I could work but I can’t . simple as that.
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Leaving the house used to terrify me, but I’ve been better since I started on Abilify. I have an online job though.
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I am in school - that’s part of why I am not working right now. Before I was in school, I was working, but that was a long time ago.
This qualifies as reason #1 that my husband and I are moving: I doubt I can work here but I want to work. People know about my illness (because I told them) and I’ve been discriminated against a lot. I had a boss/“pastor” talk about my “devil possession” while I was bringing food to people at his table and customers continued to tell me this crap later. I worked there for a total of 2.5 years with things like this happening. Then, I got pissed and I don’t know I can maintain my composure well enough to suck up to the few people in charge now that they’ve treated me like trash. I’d rather be somewhere where disabled people are wanted in the workforce and not made out to be freaky religious examples to be abused.
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34% is good though, isn’t it? I was under the impression that something like 90% of schizophrenics don’t have jobs.
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I’m working one day a week at the moment. Will hopefully start working full time in September.
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I once heard 25 percent recover of those I think some get off meds and probably don’t consider themselves sz anymore so probably won’t post here. Something like 25 percent struggle with meds but seem to blend into society. 10 percent commit suicide the remaining 40 percent are severely disabled. So how accurate it is I have no idea. I think we have a wide range of posters here. But I think 34 percent working is good it’s amazing they even came up with meds that work for this madness. We are so much more fortunate than those that came before us. I think I comes down to the fact that you can live an acceptable life with meds that are acceptable. But work can for many of us for obvious reasons not be compatible with there sz. We could do well outside of work but working can push us over the edge. For some of us working is our thearopy. Thanks to everyone for sharing.
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I’m searching for work. I have worked in the past even with the disease. Maybe I’m just not good at finding a job.
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It’s hard to get your foot in the door but for me it’s crucial to my recovery to work. Definitely takes a lot to get going and keep motivated. Best wishes in finding work. The worst part for me was explaining my gap in employment. And reason for leaving my last job when it was because of phycosic. But that’s been years ago now so next time hopefully I won’t have to explain.
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Also I know people with disabilities atleast in the US. Can get help from government agencies to help them find work.
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Last time I found luck with the federal government. However there is a hiring freeze on right now. Also I don’t know if the government considers me to have a disability. I failed to get ssdi or disability payments of any kind.
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I’ve worked a couple different customer service jobs and as a pizza delivery man. Now I work stocking shelves overnight. Even stocking shelves overnight I get a lot of external audible hallucinations now so I doubt I could ever work with customers again. Saying that, I’m happy where I am for now but I am also planning on depositing into a broker next week to trade futures. I have been studying this for the last 2 and a half years and I am now ready. If I can make extra money doing this I can finally get my own place again.
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No this is a place where they help you with your resume and maybe give you some interview advice. Possibly direct you to companies that have equal hireing opportunity.
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I’ve tried places like that before and they don’t tell me that much which I don’t already know. I went to one of those job hunting places and they literally just had me search the internet for jobs. I’ve tried to ask the business directly if they have a position open and they just direct me to their website.
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I’ve never tried them but at one point I thought about it because I was having such a time dealing with the stigma.
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Do you know of a site or something that I can find this extra bit of assistance?