# Do you miss your teenage years? **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [May 31, 2026, 6:46pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900 "2026-05-31T18:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon80779285](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@anon80779285](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon80779285)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 6:46pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/1 "2026-05-31T18:46:43Z")
I do, I didn’t get to live much during adolescent years. I was either studying or gaming or watching anime. All of which felt like I lost years of social life 😭 > **Summary** > > Sorry for the negativity. Mirtazapine has dull’ed my emotions but my thoughts are still negative. ---
**Author:** ![Rainstorm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/rainstorm/32/242_2.png) [@Rainstorm](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Rainstorm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/2 "2026-05-31T18:52:58Z")
Oh yes I was so healthy back then ---
**Author:** ![Mars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/mars/32/4869_2.png) [@Mars](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/3 "2026-05-31T19:01:57Z")
No I had prodromal symptoms for years and it was not fun. ---
**Author:** ![77nick77](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/77nick77/32/147_2.png) [@77nick77](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/77nick77)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/4 "2026-05-31T19:04:20Z")
I miss some things about them but I don’t miss other things. It was great being young and healthy and school wasn’t bad all the time during 11th and 12th grade, mainly because I was selling and smoking a lot of pot and cutting classes every week but I also remember that I was dying to lose my virginity but I couldn’t even talk to any girl. And school started sucking when I was 13, I didn’t talk to anyone in any of my classes and I was super shy and withdrawn and I was bad at social situations and I didn’t feel accepted by my peers, I don’t miss that. 12th grade got a little better, I talked more and selling pot made me somewhat accepted. ---
**Author:** ![Joker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/joker/32/13470_2.png) [@Joker](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Joker)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/5 "2026-05-31T19:10:54Z")
I was lucky to survive them ---
**Author:** ![anon80779285](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@anon80779285](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon80779285)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/6 "2026-05-31T19:14:44Z")
> [@77nick77](#): > > 13, I didn’t talk to anyone in any of my classes and I was super shy and withdrawn and I was bad at social situations and I didn’t feel accepted by my peers, I don’t miss that. At 16, troubles like that started for me. Initially I thought it was autism, which it partly was. I got diagnosed but then by 20 it was evident more was going wrong, from then onwards psychosis was the overbearing curse ---
**Author:** ![Vinegar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/vinegar/32/178_2.png) [@Vinegar](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Vinegar)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/7 "2026-05-31T19:26:12Z")
I hated my teen years. My illness had just emerged and I was a complete mess 😩 ---
**Author:** ![anon80779285](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@anon80779285](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon80779285)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/8 "2026-05-31T19:27:21Z")
sorry to have bought it up. i think it might be the majority of us had experienced the onset of illness around latter or middle adolescence ---
**Author:** ![Vaiana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/vaiana/32/1879_2.png) [@Vaiana](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Vaiana)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/9 "2026-05-31T19:55:12Z")
No for most of it, in middle school I was suicidal, bullied, drinking alcohol to handle my pain In high school I had a great time though, I miss it sometimes ---
**Author:** ![WONDERER](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/wonderer/32/69_2.png) [@WONDERER](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/WONDERER)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/10 "2026-05-31T22:26:01Z")
Yeah, I suppose I do. Well, idk about miss it. I do reminisce about it, and see it through rose colored glasses though. ---
**Author:** ![KingD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/kingd/32/9943_2.png) [@KingD](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/KingD)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/11 "2026-05-31T22:35:37Z")
No. They were awful ---
**Author:** ![greeneyedtreefrog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/greeneyedtreefrog/32/15823_2.png) [@greeneyedtreefrog](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/greeneyedtreefrog)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/12 "2026-05-31T23:41:43Z")
I miss my kindness and sensitivity from those years.. ---
**Author:** ![Sacredneigh7](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/sacredneigh7/32/7686_2.png) [@Sacredneigh7](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Sacredneigh7)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 6:30am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/13 "2026-06-01T06:30:40Z")
Definately not. ---
**Author:** ![kali](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/kali/32/12634_2.png) [@kali](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/kali)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 10:48am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/14 "2026-06-01T10:48:00Z")
I think it is safe to say I do not miss those years all that much since I was prodromal in all likelihood and was pretty miserable for the most part. But at best there were some good parts but not that many truth to be told. I do reminisce those times sometimes since my life was frozen in place and time way back then but it does not help any when all is said and done. ---
**Author:** ![firemonkey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/firemonkey/32/1229_2.png) [@firemonkey](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/firemonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/15 "2026-06-01T17:55:47Z")
Taken as a whole? Definitely not. The good times were nowhere near enough to make up for the crappy times. There was no 2e,gifted but disabled etc. You didn’t get the help and support you needed to make the most of your potential. The euphemistic description for executive dysfunction was ‘disorganised and messy’. ---
**Author:** ![Peony](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/peony/32/9544_2.png) [@Peony](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Peony)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/16 "2026-06-01T17:59:01Z")
Not really ---
**Author:** ![anon36616321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anon36616321](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon36616321)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/17 "2026-06-01T23:50:32Z")
I do, I had a punk band. Half of my classes were visual arts and photography and attending my friend’s metal concerts. I played a lot of battle of the bands and fridays at school were spent in art class critiquing our art work. Most of my friends smoked and sold outside of school because their parents were hippies. Half the school was lgbtq. On that note , happy pride month to anyone here. ---
**Author:** ![Speedy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/speedy/32/145_2.png) [@Speedy](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Speedy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/18 "2026-06-01T23:57:57Z")
Nope! My teenage years was horrible! ---
**Author:** ![anon80779285](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@anon80779285](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon80779285)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 12:21am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/19 "2026-06-02T00:21:34Z")
This was nice to read. ---
**Author:** ![anon36616321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anon36616321](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon36616321)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900/20 "2026-06-02T00:24:18Z")
Yeah I reccommend everyone send their kids to an arts school. It’s such an accepting and diverse space and it’s why i’m so well rounded. [Next page](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-miss-your-teenage-years/5900.md?page=2)