I always read people with this diagnosis/on antipsychotics say they very rarely or never cry. I cry a LOT, tears come very very easily, much more easily than they used to, and I feel weird because of this. I do not feel as though I have strong emotions; it's just that tears are never far away, even when there isn't much emotion actually behind them. I'm on 20 mg Haldol and 42 mg Caplyta, among other (non-antipsychotic) meds.

Anybody else or is it JUST me?

For a long time, I saw my vulnerability as a weakness to hide. With this painting, I wanted to show the opposite: what's fragile and raw is often where the most beautiful things are hiding.

What do you see when you look at it?

After a nearly 10 year long stint of trying to avoid the pills and being on and off them. I have tried every alternative method besides maybe keto diet to fix it. The alternative ways are kinda not working for me. I’ve been on the pills for awhile—and while they make me fat as shit—I can function a little better. At least the voices and hallucinations are subsiding and I can actually talk and control my body again. This has been an insane journey for reals.

This is the first painting I've managed to finish in months. Things have not been good

Hey friends. I’ve been on disability since 2021 but I think I’ve recovered enough to work. I’m still hearing voices and I wasn’t hearing voices before going on disability, but overall I’m fairly stable and I think I can handle a low stress job. The problem I’m having is this big 5 year gap on my resume, and multiple short tenures about a year each due to psychosis episodes which makes me doesn’t seem too loyal or reliable.

My question to you is, have any of you successfully transitioned back to work after a long absence? I’m currently working with the ticket to work program of disability to try to go back to work.

Hello! 36M here, have been dealing with schizophrenia for about 10 years now. Even after the length of time where nothing actually happens to me, I'm sitting here about to cry just thinking about posting this...

What are some ways you've found to work, where when voices are commanding, or hurtful, or even something that makes you feel like you're in complete danger, to calm back down?

I wake up in the middle of the night froze with fear unless I turn on a flashlight to use the restroom..

I watch cars, people, very closely everywhere I go... It's starting to bleed into my personal life where I'm questioning if my wife, mother in law, father in law, and every adult is closing in on me.

what.. do... I.. Do?

So I posted on here about my comfort uniform, and many of you were in agreement with me. I said in the post that I just can't do jeans anymore. Well, I was wrong. I found some pull-on jeans at Macy's. I get that they're probably for older women, but I don't care, they're stretchy and have a flat waistband like my leggings and joggers. They're a bit long so I cuff them, but really they're as comfy as leggings with a more public-appropriate look.

I feel like my medicine has made me dumber. I cannot follow simple logical statements and find it hard to think deep about a subject. I was definitely able think a bit deeper when I was not on medication. Do you find that antipsychotics affect your cognitive abilities as well?

It‘s not Schizophrenia, someone is purposely ridiculing me. Since I‘ve been diagnosed there have been signs popping up everywhere in my city. Usually the places I go. It‘s advertisement for some sort of children’s show with a unicorn on them. Called „FurziPups“. It started where I used to live. Hung up on lanterns like an add for political parties before a vote. I moved recently, but the advertisement has now followed me to my home. That means they stretch across the entire city.

I don’t know how to talk about this. Every thing I imagine saying sounds like I‘m delusional, and I think that’s the whole point. I am a victim of someone with the means to spread terrible things about me. I am very scared. I‘m not imagining this. I feel like nobody can help me escape this. What can I do?

I‘ll added a picture of said add above.

Antipsychotics are no good to stop this. I have computer equipment implanted in my body. Anyone else going through this? I can't work, I can't function. Any advice?

I am afraid that I won't find marriage because of my condition.

Any good books out there on the topic?

Am I making up my illness because weed doesn't effect me in any way. Like it doesn't even get me high, it's the same feeling as smoking cigarettes. Most people who post on here say to stay away from anything phycoactive to avoid phycosis. But I am heavily medicated so that could be stopping it. I just q ant to know why weed doesn't effect me

Schizophrenia can feel so heavy, lonely, and overwhelming. I want to be realistic: there are no perfect solutions, no 100% quick fixes, and recovery is rarely linear. So many people are still quietly struggling or suffering behind the scenes every single day, even when it’s completely invisible to the outside world.

But precisely because this journey is so tough, I feel gratitude whenever I see someone find even a fraction of genuine relief and stability. Every bit of progress is a huge victory.

To anyone currently feeling a bit better: I am so deeply happy for you. And to anyone still fighting in the middle of the storm to get there: I see you, and I hold so much hope that you find your relief soon.

Struggling with the delusion that I can speak telepathically (broadcasting) with family members that claim they don't want me to know it's real because they're worried how I'd react (obviously their real counterparts don't know about the delusion or what the hell I'd be talking about). They also react to thoughts I don't control (insertion) that are intrusive, shocking, and often offensive.

I don't know how to break the delusion. It's realistic to the point where every time I thought something would prove it's not real there always ends up being an explanation that somehow makes it make sense.

Anyone else figure out how to overcome it? I can sometimes control what they say that sometimes helps. The biggest stressor is saying something that makes me look bad or seem like I did something wrong, I end up arguing with myself over it.

I felt that I had special powers from God that no one else had, but I didn’t think something was wrong with me. Just that something was different, and people couldn’t see and hear what I saw/heard.

I wonder how common it is?

How the fuck do you stop bombing every relationship into oblivion. I feel like I can't go without a week where the fucking gauntlet of voices bombard me with every possible degrading paranoia inducing bullshit I could be subjected to. Literally anytime I try to make any lasting relationship it just lasts as long as I manage to keep a grip on my voices. Which the furthest I've managed is a couple years before eventually having a psychotic episode. Are we all fucked forever or am I just cosmical levels of stupid and incapable and need like electrocution therapy

Hi everyone,

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There is a very strange rather embarrassing start to how i went into psychosis but I would like to know how yours psychosis started, was it gradual or sudden?

How do you cope with lesser ability to feel. With the question, why did this happen to me. What is the point if I’m not able to live normally and fully feel everything that life is suppose to make us feel. 😟

I now have a new resting face. I look perpetually pissed. It’s stopped my whiplash of emotions every time a hallucination occurs, highly recommend for those with thought broadcasting or just in general.