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Does normal mean great or just OK?

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
Anecdata: I had some delusions about ten years ago, diagnosed as schizophrenia at the time and controlled with anti-psychotics for a few years until I was about to come off them. I'm doing okay now. I make a bunch of money as a software engineer, I get my heart broken by lovers now and then, I have depression and wonder why I'm alive. Not too different from before, not too different from an average person I imagine
- sunnybeetroot 2y ago
  You’re doing incredible for what you’ve been through. Thank you for sharing your story. Please keep living life, day by day. A beautiful moment could always be around the corner.
voytec 2y ago
I believe that it's the "best possible under the circumstances". Anti-psychotic meds are no fun for someone with a desk job, required to focus, figure new things out on daily basis. It's harder with schizophrenia (larger doses or stronger meds, I guess?) but I've seen both managed up to "normal" by which I mean: no mood swings, being a member of, and taking care of a family, going to the gym or running often, and still present motivation, drive and creativity. It took a few doctor changes for most of them, though, until they found a professional who prescribed some "hitting the spot" treatment and wasn't brainessly testing one drug after another at over-kill doses numbing the ability to think about daily shopping list. EDIT: one thing I forgot to mention: every single person diagnosed with above and having a good life accepted that they cannot touch alcohol, weed and few other things ever again. On the other hand - there are high levels of alcohol abuse present in all the problematic cases.
- DiscourseFan 2y ago
  Ha! >every single person diagnosed with above and having a good life accepted that they cannot touch alcohol, weed and few other things ever again On the other hand, I threw out my antipsychotics years ago, and I still drink, smoke pot...I've even taken psychedelics now and then (almost lost my head doing so one time, hasn't stopped me since!) I say all of you are just afraid--of course you need some level of rational control, but only enough to drive everyone else mad. Its not my problem, its theirs, and I'm here to make sure they understand it. >oh, but you're not insane, you're clearly a highly functional person who wasn't supposed to have been given antipsychotics No, I was and I am an extremely delusional person. I just figured out what to say to keep the world of the sane off my back.

Anecdata: I had some delusions about ten years ago, diagnosed as schizophrenia at the time and controlled with anti-psychotics for a few years until I was about to come off them. I'm doing okay now. I make a bunch of money as a software engineer, I get my heart broken by lovers now and then, I have depression and wonder why I'm alive. Not too different from before, not too different from an average person I imagine

sunnybeetroot 2y ago
You’re doing incredible for what you’ve been through. Thank you for sharing your story. Please keep living life, day by day. A beautiful moment could always be around the corner.

voytec 2y ago

I believe that it's the "best possible under the circumstances". Anti-psychotic meds are no fun for someone with a desk job, required to focus, figure new things out on daily basis. It's harder with schizophrenia (larger doses or stronger meds, I guess?) but I've seen both managed up to "normal" by which I mean: no mood swings, being a member of, and taking care of a family, going to the gym or running often, and still present motivation, drive and creativity. It took a few doctor changes for most of them, though, until they found a professional who prescribed some "hitting the spot" treatment and wasn't brainessly testing one drug after another at over-kill doses numbing the ability to think about daily shopping list. EDIT: one thing I forgot to mention: every single person diagnosed with above and having a good life accepted that they cannot touch alcohol, weed and few other things ever again. On the other hand - there are high levels of alcohol abuse present in all the problematic cases.

DiscourseFan 2y ago
Ha! >every single person diagnosed with above and having a good life accepted that they cannot touch alcohol, weed and few other things ever again On the other hand, I threw out my antipsychotics years ago, and I still drink, smoke pot...I've even taken psychedelics now and then (almost lost my head doing so one time, hasn't stopped me since!) I say all of you are just afraid--of course you need some level of rational control, but only enough to drive everyone else mad. Its not my problem, its theirs, and I'm here to make sure they understand it. >oh, but you're not insane, you're clearly a highly functional person who wasn't supposed to have been given antipsychotics No, I was and I am an extremely delusional person. I just figured out what to say to keep the world of the sane off my back.