Right before my doctor gave me my diagnosis of sza she told me I wasn’t alone. But I feel so alone all the time.
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My doc never told my dx , I had to google with meds name. What its used for after about a year.
Then later I asked the doc he said sz.
I feel I had the best first doc.
I asked my dad how did he know to take me to doc. He said when I left my college the principal referred to him.
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That sucks. Do you get along with your family? Do you have any friends?
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I’m never alone thanks to these GD voices.
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I’m technically not alone, I live with my parents. But I don’t have any friends or a girlfriend.
I feel alone in the sense that no one in my life understands me because I have schizophrenia. I don’t blame them for that, how could they understand it, knowing what I know now I realize I didn’t understand it prior to developing it.
That is why I joined this forum, it gives me something to do and people to talk with. I don’t really consider anyone here “my friends”, I guess just online acquaintances that have shared the same or similar experiences.
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Do you have any sz or mental health groups where you live, Headspark
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Not that I know of. When I was in the outpatient program at the local hospital for 6 weeks they mentioned some place for the mentally ill but it’s way too far away, I don’t feel like driving there and wasting money on gas(petrol) to go there on a regular basis. I love my minivan but it guzzles gas, it’s the one bad thing about it, and gas keeps getting more and more expensive.
If there was something local I might go but there is nothing. At the outpatient thing they mentioned meetup.com but that was about it.
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There’s no International Clubhouse near you? Or is that what they recommend that’s too far away?
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I don’t know anything about the International Clubhouse but I just looked it up and the closest International Clubhouse is about 1.5 hours away. I don’t even remember what the other place is called but it’s about an hour away. That’s over 2-3 hours round trip and a lot of gas ($$$). So no good for me. But thanks!
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Sorry to hear you’re feeling that way @Owl82 . Does coming on the Forum help at all.?
I really don’t see why being alone is seen so negatively. It just seems to me that saying “you are not alone” makes it seem like the fact of being alone is a repulsive thing. Someone who says something like that is not being genuine, they aren’t going to spend time with you outside of their professional duties. Once a psychiatrist asked me if I had any friends, and I thought the question was implying everyone should be friendly friends with everybody. I told him my only friend at the time killed someone in jail. I was sleeping on his couch. I don’t think either of us considered the other a friend.
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What a bummer! I’m so sorry.
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I enjoy my alone time, but there are times I wish I had a social life like I use too. For me being alone for too long is a negative thing.
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I had a social life from 13 to 16. Then when I was 17 I had prodromal and first psychosis. Ever since then I have been mostly a loner. If you saw me in outside I would be talking to people like everyone else. Do I have anyone in the contact list of my phone, no. Never. Is my e-mail inbox empty, yes. I don’t even sign up for mailings. Does anyone ever call me, no.
My first pdoc put me on new meds and disappeared without an explanation.
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