Whats the greatest insight about schizophrenia you ever had?
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Take the pills religiously and always strive for better function till you find what works best.
Find what coping mechanisms work for you, for stress.
That I have it. Diagnosed at age 19 in 1980.
I hate to be depressing but at age 24 I realized I will have it forever, it will never go away.
Up until then I just kind of unconsciously thought that it was like any other illness and that if I took my medication and followed what my family and doctors told me that I would get better. Well, I’m 59 now and it has gotten better but it still effects me in everyday life and a cure would be nice but I’m not counting on it.
I’ve learned certain things and one thing is that I learned that having schizophrenia was not the end of the world. I learned I could still get something out of life, that I could do stuff like travel, work, live independently, have some fun and have cool experiences.
I leaned that life ain’t hopeless and solid suffering. I felt that way early on, maybe the first several years, and as life went on I still had bad symptoms but I could still have friends and have fun and hang out.
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That I can’t do ■■■■about it except take my medication
“Sometimes I think people take reality for granted” - Francesca Zappia
And personally I’d say do your own research on meds/med interactions and the illness itself and therapies and lower your expectations.
Don’t die of your doing. People will miss you.
None of what you are experiencing is real, so don’t try to be a Hero.
Much Madness is divinest sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
"Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a chain -
- Emily Dickinson -If you respond to it with fear it gets worse. Best to respond with animosity and acceptance.
I mean my advice would be that you don’t have to tell anyone about it, and as long as you don’t say stupid stuff or act inappropriately most people won’t know about it.
I only tell people about it once they know me and even then I often keep things vague.
You can’t do this alone. Don’t self medicate.
That isn’t considered divination.
Divination is that which is used of unnessecary ill purposes and such of the like.
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sorry, i might write another essay on this again. i will try to keep it short. i learnt to trust AGAIN on people whom i should trust. i learnt to eat medications so that it regulates my condition well. i learnt that even though this is forever (schizophrenia) but it doesn’t ends my journey here as a person or an individual but rather it’s another beginning of my chapter in life. When things meant to make you fall, it’s meant to let you learn something out of it not to destory you (analogy of a baby who learns to walk will never be beaten to the point of sitting on the ground crying forever and be in agony). At some point in life, many whom suffers schizophrenia or a certain mental health condition for a long period of time will tend to forget quite a number of things which we used to do or once be (which might helps your condition, so it’s a vicious cycle if you have forgotten alot of things) when we were rather normal when we were younger. Friends have a lot of different levels and depths, and only when those that should be let go, let go of them for it will harm you for cherishing people whom you shouldn’t. And never let go to those whom you should cherish. There are more good people than wicked ones in the world.
God bless signing off:
lordarous a.k.a michael
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