I’ve been working for a company called TURN for about 2.5 years. First I worked for a ACT team and now I work for an office that helps individuals find work. These individuals were diagnosed with SMI. That serious mental illness. Like all of us a lot of them have been diagnosed with sz. Work for the longest time in my life would never happen. I thought I couldn’t handle work due to the fact that I was diagnosed with sz. This was all the messages I got from the clinicians and the professionals in the behavioral health field. Well they were wrong and I work to this day at 66. Work has become important to me as I have more income and work gives me a sense of purpose. I enjoy helping people find a job. And this is part of the recovery process. Have you had the opportunity to work?
Yes. I’ve been wanting to finish my little certificate to work on a medical office. I worked while income thirty miles everyday. I tried to hurt myself on a lot of jobs so that I come to the conclusion I need to work at home. I don’t trust my illness anymore. But thanks this good info. I’m glad you are a warrior and can pick yourself up to work.
Yes out of 15 year I have worked 6 in total.
My health condition is getting better actually.
The main point is sleep.
If one have good enough sleep it would make wonders at work.
If sleep is disturbed it’s a gonner.
Also I work in the night.
May be night shift is a thing for me due to third eye with melatonin.
Awesome! Way to go’
I’ve worked for almost 40 years but I had a few periods of unemployment. I do not do well when I have nothing to do.
Preach it, brutha. Same for me.
I worked most part of my life. Only part time now. A goal is to increase my work ability. I need better sleep though, and to work on mental health.
It makes a huge difference to work.
I got my first actual job when I was 16, ill and unmedicated. I’m now 45, medicated and stable, and I still work.
There was a year when I did not work, the year I was in medical school; that’s when I was first dx’d with psychosis and put on my first AP (Zyprexa). Other than that year, living off student loan money, not working has never been an option.
That’s more true than ever now that both my parents and all grandparents are deceased. I don’t have a safety net anymore. I just hope I get to retire in around twenty years, should I be blessed with such a long life.
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