Do you date? Do you have a husband?
I want to ask this girl out but am too afraid. Maybe I shouldn’t? Perhaps it will end badly when she learns I’m disabled??
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Schizophrenia improved my life. After I graduated high school at 17 I had a string of mostly minimum wage jobs; none of them lasted more than three months. I enrolled in community college but my first day in drafting class I thought the guy next to me was laughing at me and I didn’t go back. I stopped working and mainly spent the days jogging in the hills by myself or hanging out in malls. I got sick at age 19 and did the obligatory two years of suffering.
Then when I was 21 I got a job and I stayed there 4 years! When I was 22 I got a car and enrolled in college. I was living mostly independently and I made a few friends. Now I’m looking back on being employed almost steadily for the past 40 years. I attended community college for 4 years and then started taking online classes. I’ve held different jobs for four years at a time and a few for three years. I’ve been at my current job 11 years. I’ve had friends and done all kinds of fun stuff and even traveled a tiny bit. Now I’m 61 and slowed down a little but I’m ready for a change. Time to get back in the saddle.
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I lost an architectural license because I fell ill to sz. After years of dealing with it, I am now happy…I always needed a good excuse to write a book and sz gave me that reason…so it was all destiny for me.
If it wasn’t for schizophrenia then right now I probably would be in a different job.
And be less cautious about whom I date.
The stark raving reality of “You’re not who you think you are.” caused my sz. I could have seen it coming but didn’t care. .
I don’t think it’s ruined my life. I think it’s made me become a better person. I’ve lost some things, but I’ve gained so much by being a survivor.
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Schizophrenia has the capacity to ruin my life, it could still go either way, but I’m trying to balance my expectations and really focus on what I want.
I’ve had to let many things go.
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I’m currently ruining schizophrenia’s life.
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It hasn’t. Life’s not about what happens it about how you react to it. I’m not going to let a diagnosis stop me from leading a great life.
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Perhaps. But perhaps she will really like you and it will go well.
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It has ruined my ability to work and study. I wanted to be a doctor.
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Yes it has ruined much for me… not being able to be normal, anxiety, fear, and psychosis made me lose out on many things, too many things to mention. I also choose not to have children, for similar reasons, I can barely live on my own and also have to deal with societal pressures even when I just cannot keep up with society, makes it extra burdensome. Mental illness runs in my family, so I didn’t want children. It ends with me, all the suffering.
People called me lazy, while I was suffering mentally against voices, disassociations, hallucinations and was pressured, until I collapsed. Was undiagnosed for a decades, because I was told to shut up and just accept that “this is life”, well it wasn’t. I was ill since I was very young.
That until everything collapsed… and lost almost everything when I had a massive psychosis. Almost lost my apartment as well, was barely hanging on, was thinking about being homeless by choice, had many SI’s, and still thinking about it… at one point I had like a million voices and almost went for the SI. Then I said to myself: this needs to end, and I found a psychiatrist and careworker, who helps me recover.
The psychosis is like a stroke, it disabled me mentally further. I feel like an empty shell, and and am slowly recovering, but have hard times with impulses and voices. Being alone helps me…
At first I was diagnosed as borderline, but later on I got psychosis and schizophrenia.
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I ruined my life not sza…
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Go easy on yourself, the sza probably didn’t help
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Schizophrenia didn’t ruin my life. I work hard to keep it together
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